The 15th ICAZ International Conference will be held next year in Vancouver. Call for Sessions closes 31st of May 2026. For more details check out our website sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... or email icaz2027vancouver@gmail.com.
#ICAZ #zooarch #Vancouver2027

A doll, plastic sheriff's badge and parts of a toy truck, covered in dirt after their excavation.

Children's toys from the 20th century working class community of Vaakunakylä 🇫🇮

The lives of children are often silent and neglected in historical accounts. #Archaeology helps give a voice to this marginalised group #WorldVoiceDay 🏺

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A man in a grey jacket holding up a sign that reads "Ayn Rand Tour"

Shouldn't this be a self-guided tour?

NEW! Aurélie Manin reviews 'Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaelogical Historical Study' by Nicolas Delsol
online.ucpress.edu/ah

‘An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester Massachusetts liberal arts college laments ‘heartbreaking reality’ and says financial pressures to blame

An incalculable loss’: Hampshire College (MA) to close doors after fall.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Golden coins on the seafloor, alongside remains of a shipwreck.

In AD 1708, whilst transporting cargo from South America to Iberia, the San José Galleon was sunk off the coast of Colombia during a battle with the British.

Learn about the non-invasive study of the gold coins in the shipwreck in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026

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Anthropology Professor Laura Ng receives $10,000 grant for Wyoming Chinatowns research project The Far Western Foundation recently awarded a $10,000 grant to Anthropology Professor Laura Ng’s research project, titled “Wyoming Chinatowns and Emigrant Home Villages: Archaeologies of Labor, Racial...

A HUGE congrats to Grinnell College's @cocalola.bsky.social on this grant, awarded to support important archaeological work & research at the Rock Springs, WY, Chinatown | 🏺thesandb.com/55311/news/anthropology-...

Lost-Lost Film by French Cinema Pioneer Turns Up in Michigan | Artnet News The 45-second Georges Méliès film, "Gugusse and the Automaton", was donated to the Library of Congress last year.

Gugusse et l'Automate by Georges Méliès 1897 news.artnet.com/art-world/lo...

An Introduction to Crip Archaeology A groundbreaking overview of how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessib...

New book! AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIP ARCHAEOLOGY by Laurie A. Wilkie and Katherine M. Kinkopf explores how disability studies can enrich interpretations of the past and make the profession of archaeology more inclusive and accessible.

Use code 31SAA26 for 50% off through 5/31/26.

Mayflower hero was secretly sold into slavery, hidden files reveal Crumbling documents discovered in a Malaga archive expose how an English merchant used a legal fiction to sell Squanto and other indigenous captives in 1614

First Nations Mayflower hero was sold into slavery, files in Malaga Archives reveal

www.thetimes.com/article/1306...

#provenanceonview An installation at the Carlos on repatriation long in the making, as folks at AIA 2025 know, with a great deal of online content + shots of the unforgettable Fanta cans:

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Illustration of two men fishing for crab (Zodiac Sign of Cancer) on Calendar page for June in the Queen Mary Psalter a fourteenth-century English psalter named after Mary I of England, who gained possession of it in 1553. #Coastalhistory #4oceans

🎥 Documentary Screening: Ode to What Remains of Us by Sofia Esperto, documenting SFU Professor Hugo Cardoso’s research project.
📅 April 30 | 🕐 1:00 PM | 📍ASB 10900, SFU's Big Data Hub
🎟 Free — registration required. buff.ly/9wUsIvo
🎬 Check trailer & additional information from the link.

Famed primatologist Biruté Galdikas dead at 79 | CBC News Biruté Mary Galdikas, a Canadian scientist who dedicated her life to the study and conservation of orangutans, has died. She was the last living member of the renowned primatologists known as "trimate...

The last of the 'trimates' is now gone, too. Biruté Galdikas dedicated her life to studying orangutans www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage This paper examines the use of digital twins – highly accurate virtual models of physical structures created through terrestrial LiDAR scanning – to support the commemoration of heritage sites with...

Dawson et al. 2026: Rethinking the commemoration of Indian Residential Schools through digital heritage www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Memorial for Dr. Roy L. Carlson
Join us to celebrate the life and legacy of Roy with stories, memories, and good company.
Sunday, April 26, 2026, 1:00 PM at Simon Fraser University(Burnaby), SWH 10081
Please check details & register from the link below.
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The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige The government’s plans to poach 100 US researchers might make good economic sense. But what about the existing community?

"The problem with Canada’s plan to buy scientific prestige."

Anybody who has been peripherally involved in a University's attempt to recruit through this program will recognize the issues raised in this piece.

Archaeologists digging up the Ultramarine Factory Julius Curtius in Duisburg.
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U.S. museum returns remains of 12 Canadian soldiers OTTAWA — An American medical museum has returned the partial human remains of 12 Canadian soldiers from the First World War.

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Less than Human: Estimated Origins of the Medical Waste at the Milwaukee County Poor Farm Cemetery - Historical Archaeology Poor laws enacted in the early 19th century condemned the most destitute to confinement in almshouses, poor farms, and workhouses. These laws paralleled contemporary anatomy acts that turned the “uncl...

New from Alexander Anthony (Syracuse U.) on the archaeology of human remains from the Milwaukee County Poor Farm in Wisconsin. "In essence, pauperism became punishable by anatomization."

It is with profound sadness that the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University announces the passing of Dr. Roy L. Carlson, a foundational figure in our institution and a giant in Pacific Northwest archaeology.

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period.

Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase

Metropolitan Museum Acquires Another Vase theonion.com/metropolitan-museum-acqu...

🚨 @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I - along with a dream team of incredible collaborators - are excited to announce a new book challenging residential school denialism!

Truth Before Reconciliation will be released in September with the University of Manitoba Press: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-...

Juno News scraps plan to run residential school denial film after investigation by CNO The decision comes after Canada's National Observer determined a producer listed on the film's trailer credits — Simon Hergott — has published several videos and comments on his public YouTube channel...

The filmmaker who was supposed to make this residential school denial film had a YouTube account full of Nazi propaganda, Holocaust denial, caustic racism and antisemitism and conspiracy theories.

Too much even for Juno News.

Opinion | What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy

This is a good article, gift link.
It illustrates the real impacts that are occurring from the current US government's attacks on science funding 👍
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

Number 18 on the walking tour at Christ Church Cemetery Dartmouth marks where remains of African Nova Scotians from a church burial ground on Crichton Ave were relocated to in 1977. Their original graves were expropriated for housing.

#AfricanHeritageMonth

What is the 17th Century Swash Channel shipwreck in Dorset? Experts believe timbers found at Studland Beach form part of a shipwreck from 1631.

Archaeologists are excavating timbers from a suspected 17th Century shipwreck revealed on a beach after winter storms.

The remains were discovered at the National Trust-owned Studland Bay, in Dorset, on 28 January.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is