Αποκαταστάθηκαν η Νότια Πύλη της μυκηναϊκής ακρόπολης του Γλα και μέρος του κυκλώπειου τείχους της | LiFO Σύμφωνα με την υπουργό Πολτισμού Λίνα Μενδώνη, πρόκειται για «ένα μνημείο εφάμιλλο των μεγάλων μυκηναϊκών κέντρων της Πελοποννήσου»

The south gate of Gla lookin' so pretty

I do wonder why "paste text without formatting" isn't the default

Delighted to be part of this new special issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on “Kinship Trouble” (link to full Table of Contents in next post) with perspectives from archaeology, archaeogenetics, and social anthropology. Critical as data from archaeogenetics becomes pervasive.

I'm gonna ride my llama
from Peru to Texarkana

Updated historical Elo chart for the newly crowned men's basketball National Champion, Michigan.

Greatest Michigan team of all time? They have a strong argument.

Or indeed, anywhere in the world!

Public comment is closing tomorrow, so click the link and let your voice be heard. This is one of the most significant sites in North America

Looking towards Chaco from Pueblo Pintado

These are beautiful and haunting landscapes that deserve all the protection that can be afforded:

The Secretary of the Interior proposes to revoke the withdrawal of up to approximately 336,425 acres of public lands within ca. 10 miles surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park; you can voice your opposition to this proposal here: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

"Thank you for inviting me to campus, now please watch me shout expletives at the TV"

What does a Michigan fan do if they agreed to give a public lecture on Monday night? Asking for a friend

Bye bye, archaeology funding. 🧪🏺😢

Oxford Journal of Archaeology: Vol 45, No 2 Click on the title to browse this issue

Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 45, No. 2 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680092...
@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of…

“the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let's move on.”

The interlibrary loan librarians at my university are amazing; I gave them what I knew about an article, put a ? in the fields I couldn't fill in, and within the day I had a PDF of the article (from Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)!

As a graduate student I shocked to learn that if several distinguished scholars in Greek religion had read the next sentence in an ancient source they would have realized that the source was saying the opposite of what they thought it did

"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that

Cecillia Wang did in her opening statements, didn't she?

Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world The history of archaeology – particularly Classical archaeology – has long been written as a men’s story, obscuring the crucial role played by women. Focusing on Greece and the wider Greek world, Penc...

Open access from the École française d’Athènes: "Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world" books.openedition.org/efa/20128

"Arizona is like AI. They gather data. It modifies their gameplan. And then they become deadly." - Jim Jackson #MarchMadness

I visited Ann Arbor over the summer; my father always maintained that I went to Michigan because of the basketball team (the Fab Five)...

Bronze figurine of an enslaved person from Roman Britain on a conference poster advertising a conference next month in Toronto

Bluesky friends, I am happy to advertise a conference on ancient and medieval slave trading in the Mediterranean, co-organized by myself and Elizabeth Fentress, to be held in Toronto next month (April 15-17, 2026). Contact me via email (rather than here) or the email on the poster for more info!

I wouldn't want to learn from the real Plato, much less the even more soulless version

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Greek 1000 drachma bank note

I was just reading your Hyperallergic piece last night about Chapoutot and the Discobolos! I'm teaching the mid-5th century in Greek art & archaeology today... and showing them this beauty (I miss the drachma):

BlueBarronPhoto Photographing America's National Parks

Excited to announce that after years of saying "I will get around to it"... I HAVE FINALLY BUILT UP MY PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE.

It is mostly nature and national park themed. I've uploaded thousands of photos. There is a gallery for EVERY U.S. National Park🥲

bluebarronphoto.com

I guess it's actually more like $666k (Jan 5-Aug 14 = 221 days, 0.605 of a year x $1.1m)

This also means that the University's stupidity has set almost $1m on fire (the $2.1m contract runs January 5, 2026 -- January 4, 2027). I guess it could be a lot worse

I think I ended up having to write a check to my university for $4 to pay the stupid tax (because I used my university-issued tax-exempt purchase card).