Archaeology, Westworld, and Parasocial Relationships
Parasocial relationships are one-sided relationships that people form with other people (or animals, or things) who are unaware of the other’s existence. It was coined by psychologists Horton and Wohl...
View ArticleRe-loading the Archaeological Canon: Decolonising the Undergraduate...
At York, all lecturers are encouraged to complete teacher training to receive their Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP). I’ve been teaching in higher ed since 2005, but appreciated...
View ArticleAnarchist Feminist Posthuman Archaeology – CAA 2019
I was grateful to be invited to the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA 2019) conference in Kraków, Poland this year. I participated in the Our Knowledge is all over the...
View Article15 Questions with an Archaeologist
Joshua Guerrero (York Master’s alum!) was kind enough to ask me to appear on his podcast, 15 Questions with an Archaeologist. The episode is out and he asked me questions such as: If money were no...
View ArticleAvatars, Monsters, and Machines: A Cyborg Archaeology
New publication! Avatars, Monsters, and Machines: A Cyborg Archaeology came out today in the European Journal of Archaeology. The article comes from our session at EAA 2018, Human, Posthuman,...
View Article6 Reasons I Quit Social Media (and why I’m sort-of back on it)
A couple of months ago I had enough. Social media was driving me crazy. I have long term personal accounts that I’ve maintained for ages, archaeology project accounts, and now as my admin job for my...
View ArticleArchaeological Fieldwork with Children: Update
I’ve spent the last three days on Jersey, as the guest of the fantastic Elizabeth Castle Project. I am working with a separate(ish) small research team on a digital drawing project, details of which...
View ArticleArchaeology in 360 video
Ahh, 360! I’ve been wanting to play around with using 360 video in archaeology since seeing this video of the Hajj in 360–something that I will never be able to experience: I also use this excellent...
View ArticleEJA Special Issue: Digital Archaeologies
I’m thrilled that our long labor of love, this special issue of the European Journal of Archaeology on Digital Archaeologies has finally been published. Several of the articles were available ahead of...
View ArticleContemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory 2019: CHATmethod
I’ve got secret plans and clever tricks…. Sara Perry and I are running a workshop at the CHATmethod conference at MOLA on Friday, 1 November, 2019. We tend to have a ridiculous amount of fun (and...
View ArticleArchaeology and Capitalist Realism
This is a speech I gave at a Teach-Out during the 2019 University and College Union (UCU) UK Industrial Action. We were on strike for pensions, better pay, the gender and ethnic pay gap, precarious...
View ArticleINELIGIBLE Exhibition: Shoe
Last February Doug Bailey emailed me (and many others) to see if we’d participate in a unique experiment: he would mail us artifacts from the excavations that preceded the recent construction of San...
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A Prehistory of the Endtimes
An abandoned house in Qatar Anarchism, prehistory, survivalism, experimental archaeology–these tender sinews have been braiding, unravelling, rebraiding themselves in my pandemic imagination. One...
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Now we are all archaeological filmmakers
I spent the last two days filming an old Çatalhöyük friend (and now colleague) David Orton for his teaching in autumn term. We’re trying to prepare, as best as we can, for most eventualities within...
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Playing With Monsters: An Uncanny Digital Archaeology
Poster created by Shang Yang I was honored and excited to be invited to give a virtual brown bag at the Stanford Archaeology Center earlier in October. I was initially worried that I wouldn’t have...
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The “Archaeology Can” Bot
I’ve been off twitter again, and it’s done me a world of good to be away from the anxiety machine. Anyway, I subscribe to the James Murphy (LCD Soundsystems) philosophy: The best way to complain is to...
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Archaeology in 3D at the University of York
I’ve written a blog post for the Cultural Heritage blog at Sketchfab: https://sketchfab.com/blogs/community/archaeology-in-3d-at-the-university-of-york/ On the tours that we give to new students, we...
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OTHER EYES: Understanding the past through bioarchaeology and digital media
Hey, good news! I received an AHRC Early Career Grant for the Other Eyes Project. The Other Eyes project confronts an emerging issue within archaeology: that of interpreting past people using digital...
View ArticleSave the Date for Future Mourning: Prefiguration and Heritage
I was invited to respond to an ongoing discussion regarding prefiguration and heritage, instigated by Lewis Borck in his article, Constructing the Future History: Prefiguration as Historical...
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Antiquity: Digital Debate
AFK Minecraft I was asked to participate in a debate forum for Antiquity, instigated by Computer Scientist John Aycock’s The coming tsunami of digital artefacts. To greatly oversimplify, Aycock warns...
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