Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)
@artefactual.bsky.social
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1/20 Hi! I’m Katy, a p/t PhD student with @SWWDTP @UniRdg_Arch. I’m taking this opportunity to reflect on my extended experience and the amazing people I’ve been working with, who have introduced me to different ways of thinking and doing archaeology. #HiddenLandscapes
My old tweets are porting over (sorry for the flood) but here’s a thread for a lockdown conference that I keep thinking about…
‘Mark but this flea…’
‘Twas brillig…’
‘Miss Joan Hunter Dunn…’
for starters.
‘Twas brillig…’
‘Miss Joan Hunter Dunn…’
for starters.
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
‘Mark but this flea…’
‘Twas brillig…’
‘Miss Joan Hunter Dunn…’
for starters.
‘Twas brillig…’
‘Miss Joan Hunter Dunn…’
for starters.
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An Atmosphere of Industrialisation #Workshop, Dec 8th, Derby Museum & Art Gallery - exploring impacts of pollution from the Industrial Revolution on objects housed in Derby Museum. Free to attend, catered. More info: Dr Lenore Thompson: [email protected]. Reg: derbymuseums.org/event/an-atm...
An atmosphere of industrialisation: Approaching historic pollution in museum collections - Derby Museums
When planning for the future, it might seem counterintuitive to think about the past. However, by looking to the historic and archaeological record it is possible to see how pollution has affected the...
derbymuseums.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:53 AM
An Atmosphere of Industrialisation #Workshop, Dec 8th, Derby Museum & Art Gallery - exploring impacts of pollution from the Industrial Revolution on objects housed in Derby Museum. Free to attend, catered. More info: Dr Lenore Thompson: [email protected]. Reg: derbymuseums.org/event/an-atm...
It’s not hard, people!
I shared a total of 241 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 100% of them which is 113% above the average.
Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest
I shared a total of 241 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 100% of them which is 113% above the average.
Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest
Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest 2025
A recap of your year on Bluesky. Discover patterns, connections, and insights from your journey in the ATmosphere.
anisota.net
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It’s not hard, people!
I shared a total of 241 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 100% of them which is 113% above the average.
Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest
I shared a total of 241 images this year on Bluesky and included accessibility alt text with 100% of them which is 113% above the average.
Find out how consistently you include alt text here: anisota.net/harvest
Join us in York @tag2025york.bsky.social on 16 December for Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera's 8pm lecture, 'An Archaeology of Radical Tenderness'.
The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!
The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!
December 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Join us in York @tag2025york.bsky.social on 16 December for Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera's 8pm lecture, 'An Archaeology of Radical Tenderness'.
The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!
The @postmedarch.bsky.social's Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture is followed by a drinks reception and seasonal snacks. Then go on to the TAG party!
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And here is the conference’s webpage hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Looking forward to your paper proposals!
3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The 3rd International ReseArch group on quArries and Rock-cut sites (IRAAR) conference will take place 14-15 May, 2026.
hca.ed.ac.uk
November 30, 2025 at 7:11 PM
And here is the conference’s webpage hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Looking forward to your paper proposals!
📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference.
The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.
The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺
The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.
The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺
November 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference.
The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.
The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺
The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.
The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺
Some nice #DailySarsen thanks @durotrigesdig.bsky.social. This is a rare example of a dressed piece of sarsen stone.
A sarsen stone upright from the North West entrance to Mile Oak late Neolithic henge in East #Sussex, long since destroyed by the A27 #Brighton bypass
📷 as discovered in 1989
📷 2021 in its current home at the excellent Brighton Museum
Happy #StandingStoneSunday
📷 as discovered in 1989
📷 2021 in its current home at the excellent Brighton Museum
Happy #StandingStoneSunday
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Some nice #DailySarsen thanks @durotrigesdig.bsky.social. This is a rare example of a dressed piece of sarsen stone.
Reposted by Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)
Headed back from an EXCELLENT trip to @leizarchaeology.bsky.social. Matt will stay to finish his samples. But why zap shells with a laser? Sure, we’re figuring out what seasons these oysters were collected 200yrs ago, and from where in the estuary, but so what? #archaeology #ecology
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Headed back from an EXCELLENT trip to @leizarchaeology.bsky.social. Matt will stay to finish his samples. But why zap shells with a laser? Sure, we’re figuring out what seasons these oysters were collected 200yrs ago, and from where in the estuary, but so what? #archaeology #ecology
Just over £50 collected for the local hospice at our first outing of the season with the handbells. No notes this time, all coins, but someone did try the QR code printed on the official collecting bucket.
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Just over £50 collected for the local hospice at our first outing of the season with the handbells. No notes this time, all coins, but someone did try the QR code printed on the official collecting bucket.
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28/11/25 - nocturn
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
28/11/25 - nocturn
Ongoing work with @earthworkbec.bsky.social !
Notes from the Field: In 2025, Past Participate CIC (Anne Teather) & Historic England (Rebeca Pullen & Katy Whitaker @artefactual.bsky.social) excavated a #Dorset brickworks in the Valley of Stones, revealing #kiln structures, clay pits, & other historic features, adding detail to a wider 1/2
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Ongoing work with @earthworkbec.bsky.social !
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27/11/25 - nocturn
November 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM
27/11/25 - nocturn
Reposted by Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
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Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
Also, #DailySarsen. You can see the one at the building corner protecting the brickwork from vehicle strike. There are others in similar locations around the wharf. Unclear if they are from a local population of sarsens or brought up the Medway or Thames from westerly locations as ballast.
The medieval Monk's Granary in Faversham claims to be 'the oldest warehouse still in use in the country'. Faversham was a very important port from the mid-16th to mid-18th centuries #industrialarchaeology #faversham
November 22, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Also, #DailySarsen. You can see the one at the building corner protecting the brickwork from vehicle strike. There are others in similar locations around the wharf. Unclear if they are from a local population of sarsens or brought up the Medway or Thames from westerly locations as ballast.
Not really in the mood for sparkles and a noisy audience tonight. V good visit to the Holburne with college pal to see the Renaissance stuff and amble around the other galleries. Sorry no pics, too much looking/chatting. Thinking about what it meant to people to have images of friends and family.
November 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Not really in the mood for sparkles and a noisy audience tonight. V good visit to the Holburne with college pal to see the Renaissance stuff and amble around the other galleries. Sorry no pics, too much looking/chatting. Thinking about what it meant to people to have images of friends and family.
Congratulations @laraband.bsky.social !
Today was a big day for UHI Orkney with the annual graduation ceremony taking place in St Magnus Cathedral, #Orkney.
#archaeology #postgraduate #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney
#archaeology #postgraduate #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney
Graduation day at UHI Orkney
Today was a big day for UHI Orkney with the annual graduation ceremony taking place in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney.
archaeologyorkney.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Congratulations @laraband.bsky.social !
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Before the storm.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Before the storm.
Very good mail day: @ryancordell.org @deliadraws.bsky.social & other @skeuomorphpress.org students' gorgeous handmade (book, letterpress, illustrations>lino) edition of Ursula K Le Guin's "A Rant about 'Technology'" #DHmakes Some poster versions from the book may still be available? (link in QT)
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
November 17, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I'm giving a talk at my work this week that is being broadcast online via Zoom! Maybe you're interested in watching?
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
"Archaeology of Ableism and Ableism in Archaeology: Building a More Rigorous Archaeology through Disability Studies"
Wednesday, November 19, 12-1pm Pacific
#academicsky 🏺♿
It’s a great book by @corinnefowler.bsky.social and her co-authors do it was interesting to listen to this conversation www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I’m holding the notion of ‘calling people in’ rather than calling them out ❤️
I’m holding the notion of ‘calling people in’ rather than calling them out ❤️
Ramblings - India in the Cotswolds with Corinne Fowler and Raj Pal - BBC Sounds
Clare and guests discuss how the British countryside is connected to colonial history.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
It’s a great book by @corinnefowler.bsky.social and her co-authors do it was interesting to listen to this conversation www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I’m holding the notion of ‘calling people in’ rather than calling them out ❤️
I’m holding the notion of ‘calling people in’ rather than calling them out ❤️
And after all that noisy sparkly shenanigans, I can quietly remind myself just how brilliant Robert Hardy was.
November 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And after all that noisy sparkly shenanigans, I can quietly remind myself just how brilliant Robert Hardy was.