Alt text for this poster can be found here: https://tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-papers/. Scroll down to the section of the webpage tited 25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?

I am thrilled to say that me and Thomas Dowson will be hosting a session at TAG 2025 titled '25 Years of 'Queer Archaeologies' - Where do we need to go?'.

We seek submissions that engage with queer archaeology in its broadest sense.

More details here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

For those around, next Wednesday at 16.00 at the Institute of Archaeology at @ox.ac.uk! The main aim of this research is to model geopolitical landscapes across time based on archaeological, historical and ethnographical data, with a specific focus on the pre-Columbian Indigenous world.

Signatures will close Wednesday 7 May at 1700 GMT.

Get in there!

Oxford World Archaeology Seminar Trinity Term 2025 termcard is here! Open to all, usually Fridays 4-5pm at the Institure Lecture Room

Professor Tim Pauketat is giving a lecture for all and two workshops for graduate students next week!

Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

😳🤬“Oxford academics drank from cup made from human skull, book reveals: Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks”😳🤬

Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart Undoing Things explores all the ways in which things become undone, be they objects, bodies, places, or worlds. Although archaeologists have long attended to the productive dimensions of materiality a...

Gavin Lucas and Shannon Lee Dawdy (eds.), Undoing Things: How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart - Routledge, April 2025
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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.

@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Week 6: 28 February: Pavlo Shydlovskyi (Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv), online
Mastering the Landscape in Upper Palaeolithic: Spatial patterns of Mezhyrichian
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Week 5: 21 February: Edward Allen (Fudan University), online 2pm. Shimao from the Loess Outwards: Agropastoralism, Technology, Genetics
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Here's the term card for our Oxford World Archaeology Seminar! Regular seminars will be held on Fridays 16:00–17:00 at the Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, and we have some special talks and events as well. All welcome to join! The two online talks will be on Microsoft Teams (links below).

Erased How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them

Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2025
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Sad news from SHA: Mark Leone, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, has passed away. A founding voice in US Marxist archaeology, director of the long-running Annapolis archaeology project.

Tomorrow (Friday 06 December) at 16:00 London Time We invited Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos from Yale University for an online talk via Microsoft Teams on "The Archaeology of Ancient Maya Myths". Everyone is welcome to join! teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-joi...

Auction houses still sell human remains – and it’s time they stopped A collection of skulls and shrunken heads has been removed from a leading auction site, but the trade in human remains is unregulated and ongoing.

Thank you to @us.theconversation.com for this article @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/auction-hous...