Yesterday, a racist came onto our thread and said that "archaeology used to be a white male swashbuckling adventurous profession". (Yes, we can hear your groans from here) So here are some amazing people that defined the field, but aren't talked about enough🧵 (And side note, any white male swashbuckling archaeologists were pretty much all awful...)

By now we’ve all seen that the right wing press have picked up a non-existent story about content warnings for human remains. Archaeologists have been rightly calling this out on social media, but by reading the news comments it is clear the damage is done 🧵 The public reaction to this story has included overt racism and sexism, fuelled anti-academic sentiments, belittled archaeology as ‘not a real subject’ and painted graduates as unemployable snowflakes. This is all from the Independent’s comments, DM will likely be worse