ABOUT

Hi, my name is Ellie and I’m a PhD researcher at the University of Chester

studying how bioarchaeology is presented in the mainstream press.

So far I have been ‘STUNNED’ and  ‘AMAZED’ at the ‘REVOLUTIONARY

DISCOVERIES’ that have been made (according to the Express anyway).

 

This website features a number of blogs that will cover a range of topics- the latest in archaeology, following my PhD and offering my experiences to others who might be interested in a similar path, my work in a museum education team, and general thoughts and opinions about the challenges facing archaeology today. I am absolutely a member of the lefty, woke, snowflake brigade that the Daily Mail likes to warn everyone about and my writing will reflect this. The opinions expressed here are all my own and I hope that this can be a space for honest and open discussion with the goal of improving archaeology and its impact on the wider world.

 

My main interests are in:

 

Bioarchaeology

Public archaeology

Archaeology and the media

Archaeology in the climate crisis

The politicisation of the past

Building an inclusive discipline

 

This is not an exhaustive list as new research pops up all the time that amazes me! 

 

Why Archaeolog-ish I hear you ask (but please don’t ask out loud because the pun is really much better written down, and even that is pushing it…) I think that there is a small piece of imposter syndrome in everyone and in archaeology it is hard to get over the thought that if you’re not out there at least digging up some Iron Age pots, if not going the whole hog and destroying sacred indigenous spaces with your fun hat and definitely-not-kinky whip, then you’re not doing archaeology. Logically, I know that archaeology is so much more than that but the caution over using that word remains. So archaeolog-ish it is.