Colleen Morgan
@clmorgan
Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage. I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities. She/her 🏴
Yes I bought a greenhouse so I can have decent pickles in England. (And padrons, tomatoes and figs) ⭐️Priorities⭐️
These are some of the padron peppers that I grew, grilled and then ate yesterday. They were delicious. Thank you for your attention
Well done to @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social ’s @leilaar.bsky.social who did a fantastic job presenting her PhD research on the impact of digital recording on knowledge production in development-led archaeology at the Visual Dialogues workshop at @durham.ac.uk 🏺
Peace out King’s Manor! I loved my office in that old heap of bricks and dust. Onward to my new lab & office on campus.
Vermeer-like portrait of a Viking reenactor breastfeeding, from Moilanen & Sahramaa (2024)'s exploration of sensorial archaeologies & materiality, informed by reenactors. 🏺
Please have this perfect venn diagram of sandwich/pie/pudding to console yourself.
Argh I hate everything about this, how horrible… …ooh they have Mississippi mud pie! 🤔
Dealing with the heat by swimming in an outstandingly cold river and hiding in a stone house carved out of the side of a hill. Like proper hobbits.
At the “Principled Practice” meeting that brings together many of the big players in digital archival of cultural heritage & archaeology, including @ads-update.bsky.social @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy @ariadne-ri.bsky.social to discuss better FAIR/CARE principles. 🏺
My gender is: stolen chipped Mr Grumpy mug filled with tepid black coffee
I'm (still) trying not to take it too personally that the Sisyphus level of "Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment" looks like an anarcha-feminist flag: pippinbarr.com/lets-play-an...
Our poor silly orange cat has dislocated her elbow, so she is in cat jail for 6 weeks!
Bittersweet last day of teaching in the old @dah-lab.bsky.social at the King's Manor @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. +
SNAKES ON A DRAIN (you better hope I finish this section in my lecture on Bronze Age iconography and cosmology in SE Arabia soon)
Y'all I just love the relief carvings on the grand tomb at Hili so very much.
I'm obviously an Avebury girl but this woodcut of Stonehenge by Yoshijiro Urushibara is v nice
Watching people play a game that you helped create is a pretty incredible experience. Thanks to folks at Bristol Digital Game Lab for inviting me!