Wonderful (and a bit uncanny) to be back at Stanford with @therealchelsearose.bsky.social and the gang for a symposium on the Cangdong Village Project. Feat image of @bkbaker.bsky.social excavating a home village in Guangdong 🏺📚

I haven't done #showmeyourknits in ages but it doesn't mean I haven't been knitting. It's stripes this week and here's a stripy sock I finished yesterday. Now onto the second! 🧶 #DHmakes

Archaeology folks, anyone recognize this mark? It seems to say FSC inside the diamond. Small jar or ointment pot with deep string rim, collected on St Eustatius, no other context available. Glaze pooling blue. 🏺

Glad to say I have now found people in VA to drag out to see historic cemeteries in the middle of a corn field on a random Saturday

For folks in the Bay Area, join us for a public symposium about material culture in the Cangdong Village Project. 21st of August at Stanford Archaeology Center 🏺🗃️

For anyone following along at home, yes I was just in Australia but now doing training in Arizona & very much enjoyed a flying trip to the Grand Canyon and Walnut Canyon as well as the excellent food in Flagstaff

First house concert of the Trial Bay Folk Club ft. mandocellist Luke William Wright. So proud of my parents for setting up the club and reminded once again how important these kinds of clubs are for social connection (esp. for men of a certain age), learning skills, and socialising with new people 🪕

Unlike the ceramics, where approx. 50% came from China and 50% from the UK, the glass is mostly coming from American manufacturers with a small amount from Europe (e.g. the absinthe bottle below from Switzerland) and only Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) bottles coming from China.

The project looked at more than 178 kg of glass from one of the largest and most important Chinatown sites in the US. It shows that inhabitants of the Chinatown were buying and using a wide range of products in glass containers: salt, soda, absinthe, pickles, medicine, ink, glue, shoe polish ...

Official quilt reveal now it's been gifted #DHmakes 🧵🪡

Quilt update. So close now, but I'd like to add a little more hand quilting before I call it done. #DHmakes 🪡🧵

Very jealous of Colonial Williamsburg's gorgeous new archaeology center which has its grand opening this weekend. The lab spaces! The teaching spaces! Artifact storage and display! And all open to the public for folks to see the process!! 😍😍😍 🏺📚

I couldn't join the editor Maddie Shanahan and other authors in Sydney for the book launch so it was exciting to celebrate my chapter in Archaeologies of Food in Australia today at William & Mary's Celebration of the Book 🗃️🏺📚

Enjoying the sessions today at Digital Bites on digital humanities and foodways at the Muscarelle Museum 🏺🗃️🍽️

Made a friend today on our class field trip to James Monroe's Highland. 🐑 very much enjoyed scritches from all the students

Australians do have the Easter bilby

Field trip to the DeWitt Museum for Contesting the Museum a big success, and I greatly enjoyed seeing this display of decoys

Piecing of the double wedding ring quilt top is done, now to get some batting and backing to start the quilting #quiltsky 🪡🧵

TFW you decipher the writing on the back of the button and ID the manufacturer and a narrow date range

Excited to learn about historical button identification today at #sha2026 with @lindsaybloch.bsky.social 🏺

End of the year means a #storygraph wrap up. Murder mysteries dominate numerically but aside from Hilary Mantel, the top 3 books I read this year were Claire Keegan's Small Things Like These, Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional and Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon. #booksky 📚

For the last #showmeyourknits of the year, my new colorwork Christmas sweater finished just in time. Roughly based on the Boswellia pattern but with motifs from the Winter Core Doodle Card deck #dhmakes 🧶

Spotted over the weekend on Assateague #bird

Must have been a rough day for this poor archaeologist who wrote in their field notes "Gloom Despair & Agony on me!" 🏺

Making slow progress on my first Double Wedding Ring quilt. It's gonna be huge 🪡🧵 #DHmakes

Learning to process acorns today ahead of the William & Mary Indigenous Peoples' Feast

Type A cookies for a Halloween #cookieparty 🎃🖤

Cooking up a special treat for the kids in my Archaeology of Institutions class. Reprising the turnip pudding from last time and trying a new dish, rice porridge. Both made to Bentham's specifications although scaled down a lot because experience tells me that no one wants more than a tiny taste🏺🗃️🍽️

Now the posters are up, it's official! It's Virginia Archaeology Month! Looking forward to all the great events 🏺🗃️

Glad we weren't put off by dire predictions for rain and still made it to the Richmond Folk Festival feat. one of America's greatest culinary traditions - funnel cake. #RVA