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Catherine Frieman
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D.Phil. Archaeologist. Co-Editor Current Anthropology. Previously Editor European Journal of Archaeology. Educator. Tattoo Enthusiast. World Traveller. Accident Prone.

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Catherine J. Frieman is an archaeologist and associate professor at the Australian National University. Her research investigates conservatism and innovation, and she is a specialist in material culture and technology. .. more

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 8d
A reminder we’re accepting abstracts and registrations for the first #AusTAG conference to be held 22-23 May in Adelaide.

Call for Papers: austag.org/2025/11/04/a...

Registration: events.humanitix.com/austag-confe...

Can’t wait to see a bunch of archaeology folks there!
Call for Papers: AusTAG 2026
Submit an abstract to the first ever Australian Theoretical Archaeology Group (AusTAG), to be held at Adelaide University!
austag.org

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h
Lovely! Thank you!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1h
I love the dogs! And the blue drawing would make an amazing ceramic pattern

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2h
Yes exactly. The site becomes a black hole that we just embroider around the edges of rather than actually increasing our empirical knowledge base but it's invisible because the sure looms so large

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 15h
"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Ughhhhhhhh

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
!!!!!!!!!
urbanprehistorian.bsky.social Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 16h
Doing final edits on the text of my forthcoming book, Urban Deep Time: the contemporary archaeology of prehistory. Hopefully it should be out by the end of the year, published by Bloomsbury. #UrbanPrehistory
Title page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time Contents page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
An impossible utopia

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
The dream

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Only the really flash and obvious stuff (💙flint daggers💙) gets any attention and still not enough at that

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Also hard same. If i had landed in Europe not Australia i'd have been buried in lithic assemblages trying to make sense of Bronze Age flintworking and the variety of ln/eba knives. Major hole in our knowledge but only patchily studied

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
Yes for real!!

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
(And I'm particularly grumpy about the lithics which are only rarely properly studied - good vibes here to Ben Chan)

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 15h
I'm thinking the wider landscape tbh including dw. But i think it's a microcosm of the problem of accumulation we have all over. There's too much push to excavate and not enough to analyse

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Anne Augereau @anneaugereau3.bsky.social · 16h
C'est pour bientôt

Une préhistoire des femmes - Anne Augereau - Éditions La Découverte share.google/jxuWr19AP71u...
Une préhistoire des femmes - Anne Augereau - Éditions La Découverte
: Après avoir été invisibilisées par les chercheurs, les femmes préhistoriques ont récemment été dépeintes comme émancipées, contrôlant leur fécondité, choisissant leurs partenaires et œuvrant à parit...
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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 16h
Meaning although we have huge landscape coverage in terms of excavation for things like ceramic temper, for example we're still primarily reliant on work from the 90s

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 16h
eg, there's so much excavated ceramic and lithic (not sarsen, bluestone) material that it hasn't been properly analysed even as big models of landscape, mobility, etc have been widely published

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 16h
I have had a (not very revolutionary) idea that i would gently request you test on your students and tell me how they react: the Stonehenge paradox - when there has been so much research at a site that not enough research has been done 1/2

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 16h
Doing final edits on the text of my forthcoming book, Urban Deep Time: the contemporary archaeology of prehistory. Hopefully it should be out by the end of the year, published by Bloomsbury. #UrbanPrehistory
Title page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time Contents page of manuscript for a book called Urban Deep Time

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 17h
NEW: Five trans youth athletes speak out about what school sports means to them + the toll of exclusion.

"Sports is my escape" -Lina, 14-yr-old tennis + track athlete. "We’re just kids. We’re just trying to have fun…We’re not trying to be monsters. We’re just trying to find connection + community."
The trans youth athletes in the US fighting for their rights: ‘Playing is an act of resistance’
As the US supreme court weighs bans on trans athletes, five students speak about the joy of sports and toll of exclusion
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 20h
🏺🧪 Reminder - it's never good #SciComm practice to make inaccurate/misleading gen-AI imagery.
Case in point- recent posts here of #Neanderthals with complex engravings, & metallic-looking objects.
(they also apparently have 6 fingers, but I guess who tf cares when it's just vibes for the public 🙄)
Screen grab of bluesky post showing text about Neanderthal aesthetics and a gen-AI image showing a male with inaccurate facial anatomy in a cave looking pensive, in front of him is a very complex graphic engraving in the floor and behind that is a red handprint on the wall with six fingers and a star-shape negative inside it. Screenshot of bluesky post with text about Neanderthals and fire, and a gen-AI image showing a group of male Neanderthals near extremely small mammoths in a snowy forest. The Neanderthals have a mix of fur and leather belts and wristguards, with metallic details including buckles. They have spears, the tips of which are clearly modelled on metal spears and in no way resemble any known Neanderthal artefacts. Close-up on the body of one Neanderthal in the forest showing details of the metal and leather belts and wrist-guards, and metallic-looking spears.

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · 1d
Our server is currently down, so it is not possible to save OxCal projects. We'll let you know when the problem is fixed.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 1d
Sneak peek at PhD student Lydia Barrett’s Prehistory map series for NE Wales (funded by the wonderful @cambriansarch.bsky.social) Objective is to plot all PAS/HER data for the region, to help us better understand the back story to Penycloddiau Hillfort (as inspired by Bill Varley and Lily Chitty).
Maps with archaeological distribution. We’re making a series of 30 maps in total.

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Nah i think you're right on the money

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Getting a cute tattooed boyfriend to snuggle is a tangible outcome but you're still at sea - setting yourself against the normative world

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
I think the forbidden longing is suffused throughout. As per chp 1, going to sea is what you do when the rules and structures of the real world (heteronormativity) start to destroy you. The sea and things of the sea are the longed for but terrifying freedom (queerness)

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
It's moby dick. Nothing lightly-disguised about those queer themes

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Or ex nurse/medic. I've known a few of those too

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
Yes all three of those plus the queer woman project director who is equal parts the best boss you've ever had and the most terrifying person on the planet

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Alison Croggon @alisoncroggon.bsky.social · 1d
Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits

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Catherine Frieman @cjfrieman.bsky.social · 1d
You left off a few off my fave archy-archetypes but this is gold dust