"Major League Archaeology: Former Major League Baseball (MLB) player Brad Lidge, who threw the final pitch to win the Philadelphia Phillies the 2008 World Series, is now an archaeologist researching the Etruscan civilization."
Photo of clear glass ashtray with the base labelled in bold black letters: FLAG FEN Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C.
Here's my candidate for the best ever archaeological excavation souvenir- what's yours? #SundaySouvenir
Desperate Business cartoon from Private Eye
Contemporary archaeology joke from @moderntoss.bsky.social in the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Astronaut Chris Cassidy unloading food supplies in the International Space Station.
Happy #InternationalDayofHumanSpaceFlight, celebrating the first human flight into space #OnThisDay in 1961.
Did you know there is space #archaeology? Studying life on the International Space Station shows how a 'space culture' emerged.
🔗 from 2021 (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
📷 NASA
dare I free him from his bonds?
And in even better news, the Coțofenești helmet, one of the museum thefts detailed in the original post, has now been recovered along with some (but not all) of the gold antiquities looted from the Drents Museum last year www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two follow-ups to this post: I recently chatted Star Wars archaeology and the anthropology of Andor with @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
The Caithness Broch Project is objectively the best project.
In addition to building an Iron Age-style broch tower, they have now blended their own whisky, On the Brochs, using only distillers from 'Broch Country'
Put your #archaeobooze to good use
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"Phee emerges as a determined, experienced and intelligent explorer of the galaxy’s past – an almost-archaeologist"
The archaeology of Star Wars: The Bad Batch by @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
1982 magazine ad for Aerosmith's Rock in a Hard Place with Stonehenge inspired cover art, with tag line "The Ultimate Rock Formation"
"Rockin' with enough power to blow this country back to the Heavy Metal Age"
Magazine ad for Aerosmith's 1982 Rock in a Hard Place, with its Stonehenge-inspired cover art www.reddit.com/r/Aerosmith/...
#StonehengeAnything
Star Wars Archaeology with Adrián Maldonado www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKSe... @archaeonado.bsky.social
The Bone Age
How Scotland's Stone of Destiny connects to this wee pub in Glasgow's West End, by Prof Sally Foster
Matthew Baynton playing a Roman in Horrible Histories S05e07
Dunno, just looks like the guy from Horrible Histories
Mamdani, Medievalist #OneOfUs
"finding missing Doctor Whos is the holy grail of classic TV discoveries...My flabber has never been so gasted."
#ReelArchaeology
New hashtag #archaeomassage
This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Patinated commemorative plaque reading "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL To commemorate 25 years working for human rights..." with the remainder of the inscription obscured by the roots of the tree it commemorates, Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow
Commemorative plaque/handy tree growth indicator
No idea!
Hobbit Hoard! Tolkien archaeology! Cassette excavation!
"The discovery occurred during routine track renewal work when maintenance crews came across a set of cassette tapes buried at the base of an overhead line mast."
Fragments of sweet wrappers.
Four pieces of plastic cutlery.
Plastic drinking straws and straw wrappers.
Enjoying a treat this #NationalSnackDay? Don't forget to dispose of your waste! Archaeological survey at the Iron Age hillfort of Castell Henllys found lots of plastic waste from modern visits, suggesting we now live in the 'Plastic Age'.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
#HillfortsWednesday🏺#Archaeology
I'd also delete the whole "civilisation" bit, comb homeboy's hair and beard, and maybe add some women
The long 2010s are finally over
Fantastic, thanks so much
Thanks. You, Fimi and others have written a great deal about his archaeological knowledge, and it's always made me wonder if he ever had much interaction with archaeologists at Oxford, or spent any time in the Ashmolean or the Pitt Rivers
Newly published short story by JRR Tolkien, The Bovadium Fragments, which makes 'gentle fun at the pomposity of archaeologists' - I wonder who he had in mind? His former co-author Mortimer Wheeler perhaps? @richove.bsky.social @johngarthwriter.bsky.social tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Bov...
Punch-card prehistory
