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- The reviews are in! 🏺 Check out Sue Harrington's book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex, now available on our website. Read more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
- If only we were clever enough to come up with a hedgehog/archaeology pun...
- Happy National Hedgehog Day! 🦔 Meet Petunia who is possibly the only pet to have made it onto the back cover of a BAR book! Petunia got a special shoutout in author Christopher Dwan's bio on his recent publication Landscape Stability and the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain.🏺
- Happy National Hedgehog Day! 🦔 Meet Petunia who is possibly the only pet to have made it onto the back cover of a BAR book! Petunia got a special shoutout in author Christopher Dwan's bio on his recent publication Landscape Stability and the Formation of Social Memory in Prehistoric Britain.🏺
- Happy #FindsFriday friends!!🏺 We can't believe we haven't seen this one before today! This adorable dog sketch was excavated in the Valley of the Kings and comes from the New Kingdom period.
- 📣Now Available📣 Un atelier per maioliche di età rinascimentale a Roma examines a workshop with a Renaissance furnace for the production of maiolicas. This is the first discovery of its kind documented archaeologically in Rome. Read more about it here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
- 📣Now Available📣 Nikolas Bakirtzis' Architecture and Sacred Landscape is the first in-depth study of Prodromos monastery’s architectural history and organization, as well as the first attempt to locate it at the nexus of a sacred landscape surrounding the well-preserved complex. 🏺
- Our #FindsFriday this week comes from our recently published book Excavations at Highdown, West Sussex edited by Sue Harrington! 🏺 Read about this lovely bird brooch and more here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
- Reposted by BAR PublishingMuchas gracia por acompañarnos en la presentación de nuestra nueva edición en BAR !!
- Our lovely editors presented their new publication El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica at the Ateneo Peninsular in Mérida.🏺 Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
- 📣Now Available📣 Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Napatan Region and Gebel El-Barkal explores how how archaeological sites exist simultaneously as global monuments, national symbols, and living spaces imbued with everyday cultural meaning.🏺
- 📣Now Available📣 Our recent publication Social Differentiation among Non-Elites in China’s Central Plains, 1735-1530 BCE is the first to study Erlitou society via household archaeology, focusing on non-elite households in the capital.🏺
- Our first #FindsFriday of 2026! 🏺 Starting the year off with this terracotta zoomorphic askos...we'd appreciate anyone who can tell us what animal this is meant to be...
- Now available📣 This volume originates from the Maritime Archaeology Research Exchange Online Lecture Series, which promotes the work of graduate students and early career researchers in maritime archaeology. The contributions highlight diverse theoretical and methodological techniques in the field.
- We are thrilled to be at the SHA in Detroit this week!🏺 Stop by our stand to browse our books or chat to us about your projects!
- Ringing in the new year with one of our newest books Duke Alexander and his Sarcophagi by Aidan Dodson. 📣 Part Egyptology, part antiquarian history, it tells the remarkable story of two Egyptian stone sarcophagi owned by Duke Alexander - one later reused for his own mummified body.🏺
- Reposted by BAR PublishingVery excited to see this out in the wild 👀🏺 It's a real collaborative monograph which details the excavation of the Bowl Hole & provides a wider overview of the excavations at the castle. The first chapter, co-authored with Graeme Young & Barbara Yorke, is freely available to read 👉
- 📣Now Available📣 The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺 @brparchaeology.bsky.social
- 📣Now Available📣 The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery is the full publication of the sixth- to eighth-century burials excavated between 1999 and 2007. It integrates archaeological, osteological and isotopic data into a comprehensive account of the cemetery. 🏺 @brparchaeology.bsky.social
- Reposted by BAR PublishingRecension | Magali Bailliot, L’iconographie des tablettes de malédiction. Envoûter et dessiner dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine, @barpublishing.bsky.social Par Aymeric Gaubert journals.openedition.org/frontieres/5...
- Now Available! 🏺 Looking for the perfect present for the archaeologist in your life? An Introduction to Gender Archaeology by Isabelle Algrain and Laura Mary is now available on our website! @anemonenyme.bsky.social @greekvases.bsky.social @payetatruelle.bsky.social
- Reposted by BAR PublishingStuck for present ideas? How about 2 shiny new #medieval publications? - The Bamburgh Bowl Hole Anglian-period Cemetery: A bioarchaeological study of a Northumbrian royal site by Sam Lucy, Charlotte A. Roberts and Graeme Young
- 📬You've got mail! We have one last BAR Bulletin to share with you all before the new year. Check your inboxes for news on our 10 newest titles - don't forget to use your membership code for 20% off! 🏺
- Hello TAG!🏺 We are so pleased to be at #TAG25 in York! We've already had a lovely drop-in from our recent author Despoina Vasiliki Sampatakou, pictured here with her book 'Creating and Evaluating Digital Media for Archaeological Storytelling: The life and death of MYC1V at Grave Circle A, Mycenae'!
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- 🎄Happy BARmas🎄 Our small (but mighty!) team celebrated the holidays BAR style yesterday. Quizzes were won, chocolates were eaten, and Mariah Carey was played on repeat! Happy holidays from our family to yours!💫
- Congratulations to our friends over at Headland Archaeology who have been nominated for Rescue Project of the Year! 🏺 Curious to know more about the project? Check out Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town which details the excavations at St Peter's Church.
- Reposted by BAR Publishing| PARUTION 📚 | Nous sommes très heureuses et fières de vous annoncer la parution de la traduction en anglais d’ « Introduction à l’archéologie du genre » aux éditions @barpublishing.bsky.social ! 🎉 👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
- Reposted by BAR Publishing| PUBLICATION 📚 | We are very happy and proud to announce the publication of the English translation of ‘Introduction à l’archéologie du genre’ by @barpublishing.bsky.social ! 🎉 👉 www.barpublishing.com/book/an-intr...
- 💫Now Available💫 The reviews are in on Las Tierras del Mayathan. Exploring Maya culture in the Northern Lowlands across time - from pre-Hispanic to present - this volume brings together research on archaeology, anthropology, ethnohistory, calendars, astronomy, mural art, and codices. 🏺
- This artefact is a familiar favourite but we've just found out his name is William! The nickname was first recorded in 1931 and has stuck around since then. How could we not choose him for #FindsFriday?!🏺🦛 William is on view now at The Met.
- Here is Richard climbing up to the upper level of the Junction Site cliff-dwelling, Grand Gulch, Utah in 1973! 🪜
- 📣New Book Announcement 📣 Richard Ahlstrom's Ladders and Axes of the American Southwest’s Pueblo Region, 400–1900 CE brings together evidence from artifacts, architecture, dendrochronology, historical documents, and ethnography to detail the histories of the ladders and axes from the Pueblo people.🏺
- 📣New Book Announcement 📣 Richard Ahlstrom's Ladders and Axes of the American Southwest’s Pueblo Region, 400–1900 CE brings together evidence from artifacts, architecture, dendrochronology, historical documents, and ethnography to detail the histories of the ladders and axes from the Pueblo people.🏺
- Our lovely editors presented their new publication El Agua en Mesoamérica y Aridoamérica at the Ateneo Peninsular in Mérida.🏺 Their book analyses daily and symbolic use of water, discussing its management, use, distribution and associated hydraulic technology in Mesoamerica and Aridoamérica.
- Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺 This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀 On view at the Met.
- Josy Luginbühl's new publication Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung uses artefacts found in burial contexts to explore female literacy in the Roman western provinces. 🏺 Her book is now available and free to read here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
- We are so pleased to see a lovely review of Anna C. Moles' Urbanism and its Impact on Human Health: A long-term study at Knossos, Crete in the BMCR! Read the review here: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.11...
- 📣New Book Alert📣 We are pleased to announce the publication of Alexander Belov's Sails and Rigging of Ancient Egyptian Ships from the Predynastic Period to the End of Antiquity. The book provides an invaluable resource for any scholar interested in the development of ships in Ancient Egypt.🏺⛵
- It's been a few weeks since we've posted our favourite animal artefact for #FindsFriday! 🏺 The winner this week is this Babylonian frog shaped weight which weighs 10 minas, a Mesopotamian unit of measure weighing around 18 ounces.
- Our recent publication Economies of Scale in Old World Archaeology is the topic of session 4I at the ASOR conference today at 4:25-6:30 EST. Join editors Jeremy A. Beller, Tina L. Greenfield, and Kent D. Fowler for 7 talks in honour of the work of Haskel J. Greenfield.
- We are very pleased to announce the publication of Matthew Fittock's Fragile Gods: Pipeclay figurines and related objects in Roman Britain! 🏺 This book provides the first comprehensive catalogue and analysis of the nearly 1000 published and unpublished pipeclay objects now known from Britannia.
- You've got mail! 📬 Our newest BAR Bulletin just dropped! Discover six new titles that journey across vast temporal and geographical worlds, from ancient Egyptian boats to Puebloan ladders and axes.🏺 Sign up here to receive our newsletter and take advantage of 20% off all private purchases.
- Such beautiful objects on display at the exhibition in Oxford on the extraordinary Sanxingdui site! 🏺 The exhibit is hosted by the Confucius Institute at Headington Hill Hall and is open for a few more days next week. Check it out here!
- Reposted by BAR PublishingNINO offers a variety of fellowships, grants, and prizes, in support of researchers and students working on the ancient Near East (incl. Egypt) in the Netherlands and abroad.
- It was lovely to see BAR author Lilian Ladle at the Reconnecting Roman Britain conference last weekend!🏺 Pictured here with the Britannia Award she received on behalf of the Druce Farm Villa Volunteer Group. Read more about the Druce Farm site in her book: doi.org/10.30861/978...
- With #ISAC25 well underway we wanted to share some of our newest titles relating to Islamic Archaeology.🏺 They are all available now on our website: www.barpublishing.com
- 📣Now Available📣 Valeria La Monaca's Delicati and Delicia in the Roman Empire analyzes literary, epigraphic, and iconographic sources to offer a comprehensive portrayal of delicati and delicia as status symbols, especially of ambitious libertine families.🏺
- Happy Halloween! 🏺🎃 What better way to celebrate than with a spooky #findsfriday? This Moche bottle, featuring a skeleton couple and their child, is currently on display at @metmuseum.org.
- Reposted by BAR PublishingHappy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology
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- Feeling inspired by the IKUWA conference? Consider submitting a proposal for our specialist sub-series Cultural Studies in Maritime and Underwater Archaeology🏺⛵ Contact editor@barpublishing.com or submit a proposal here.
- We are very sad to be missing out on the book launch of Hazard and Disaster Risk in Ostia at the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte this evening! Wishing our authors all the best in Rome!🏺
- We are so pleased to see so many of our authors and members of the editorial committee for our sub-series The Maritime Archaeology Trust Monograph Series presenting at IKUWA today! We've highlighted their recent publications with us below.🌊🏺
- The newest BAR Bulletin has arrived! 📬 Head to your inboxes (or to barpublishing.com) to check out our new books! Remember that all BAR Members received 20% off their private purchases. Sign up here: www.barpublishing.com/bar-membersh...
- Reposted by BAR PublishingNEW TRAJ #BookReview Roman Feet and Shoes by Elizabeth Shaw, ✍️ Marquita Volken "an invaluable resource and a starting point for identifying Roman mentalities regarding the significance of shoe- and foot-shaped artefacts" doi.org/10.16995/tra... @barpublishing.bsky.social
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- Our Editorial Director Jacqueline Senior is looking forward to attending IKUWA 8 next week! Email editor@barpublishing.com to book a meeting with her. Take a look at our Open Access publication on the IKUWA 7 proceedings which was featured in the newest issue of @antiquity.ac.uk here. 🌊🏺
- We are thrilled to see the research from Living and Dying in a Lancashire Cotton Town as the cover feature in the newest issue of @currentarchaeology.bsky.social !
- 📣New book alert📣 In Coinage, Landscape and Society in the Borderlands Carl Savage compiles a new and comprehensive dataset of medieval coins from the Scottish border region from 1136-1603, drawing together both English and Scottish data for the first time. Now available on our website!🏺
- Reposted by BAR PublishingNew Book Alert: A discussion of Roman Militaria from the South East of England. What can Roman military finds tell us about the actions of the Roman army in the 'civil zone' of Roman Britain. www.barpublishing.com/book/britann... #Roman #RomanBritian #RomanArmy #Archaeology
- Interested in medieval archaeology? Take a look at our newest medieval books now available on our website! 🏺 Available here: www.barpublishing.com/books/time-p...
