Twitter and Archaeology

Now I know Twitter is not everybody's cup of tea, but I was poking around today and discovered some very interesting projects in Twitter. If you've been interested in seeing what different archaeological groups are up to on Twitter, or contemplating running a Twitter feed for your own group, this blog is for you.

It took me several hours, but I found a lot of professional archaeologists and students who were tweeting about archaeology; and I also found a lot of creative use of Twitter by organizations, archaeological sites, museum, magazines—even a handful of CRM firms to get news out about their organizations. Each of the following links should take you to a Twitter page, where you can cruise at your own pace and see what others are doing.

If I missed your organization's Twitter feed (and I very well might have, searching Twitter has a needle-in-haystack quality), add it in a comment and I'll add it to the list.

Specific Archaeology Projects

• Campus Archaeology Program, Twitter project from Michigan State
• Dead City Stories, Paris, France
• Flemish Heritage Institute, in Dutch
• Florida Public Archaeology
• Gabii Project, archaeology project in Italy
• Grand Pre Archaeology, Nova Scotia
• History Faculty, free podcasts by historians
• Indiana Jones
• Iowa Archaeology
• NE Asia Archaeology
• PalaeoGeek.net, Chicago notebook about UP art
• Standing with Stones, film and book project

Archaeology News Servers

• ArchaeoBox
• Archaeological Box, weekly pod cast
• Archaeology News
• Archaeology Daily
• Archaeorama
• Bennu, Ancient Egypt news
• BAJR jobs
• Bread and Circuses
• Culture 24, news from museums, galleries, heritage sites
• Culture Watch Pacific Northwest
• Digipast
• Grassroots News, public anthro project in Washington DC
• Heritage Twit
• Jorgen Holm, paleolithic news
• Preservation Today, Natchitoches, LA
• Research News in Late Antique Studies, Paris
• Rogue Classicist
• Southeast Asian Archaeology news
• Vin Brown, news from Adelaide
• Watching Archaeology
• Wiki Arc

CRM Firms

• L-P Archaeology, CRM firm, UK
• Moore Group, CRM firm in Galway, Ireland
• Wessex Archaeology, CRM firm, UK

Magazines/Television

• Archaeology magazine
• Biblical Archaeology Society
• Discovery Channel
• History Channel
• National Geographic
• New Scientist
• Sierra Magazine
• Smithsonian Institution

Archaeology Organizations

• ADMAT, UK, Dominican Republic
• AIRC Rome, nonprofit for preservation of Rome archaeology and architecture
• CHARM, Macedonia
• Council for British Archaeology (Director)'s Twitter
• Crow Canyon Archaeological Center
• English Heritage
• Flemish Heritage Institute, in Dutch
• Heritage Action, UK
• Museum of Ontario Archaeology
• National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• PAST Foundation
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
• Portable Antiquities Scheme at British Museum

Museums

• Arizona Museum of Natural History
• Arizona State University's Anthropology Museum
• Brooklyn Museum
• Backus-Page House
• De Young Museum, San Francisco
• Fernbank Museum, Atlanta GA
• Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Norway
• San Diego Archaeological Center

Oh, of course. My own twitter feed is at Archaeology, and I should also mention my colleague N.S. Gill's Ancient History feed too!