Lauren Nofi

@lenofi.bsky.social

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Archaeologist. Ex museum ed. History teacher. British and Irish community archaeology. Abolitionist. Taíno. she/her. Orig. NY, usually Pittsburgh. 📍Bamburgh, UK

A miniature basket of candy holds chocolate and gummy worms and the US Constitution. This is just what they have left. Everything else was taken including the rest of the Constitutions.
Screencap of ICMS schedule. “Well, Well, Well: Finding the Third Medieval Well of Bamburgh Castle. Saturday, May 10, 2025 Sangren Hall 4520 Will be held in person. This paper is a project update regarding the search for a medieval well at Bamburgh Castle in northern England by the Bamburgh Research Project, a nonprofit archaeological field school. The well was discovered in the summer of 2024, and it proved to be unlike the other medieval wells on-site.”
Text of DOD letter ending cultural awareness months and the acknowledgement of gender or equity.
Screencap of interview transcript from Outside In Radio. “Felix Poon: Yeah. And so will the museum be engaging with finding ceremony any differently? Rachel Watkins: Well I mean, as I understand it, there's already been engagement with finding ceremony that that's been ongoing, and it's likely that that will continue.”
Poster board advertising plenary session for Wednesday, November 20. The topic is the Commission for the Ethical Treatment of Human Remains: Report and Discussion.
Quarter sheet of paper with black text and line drawing of hands reaching upward. “Uncollect Our Ancestors” and “Finding Ceremony” with a QR code.
Canvas bag with blue color block and text says “Book Bag.” Next to it stands a book and the cover is a close-up Roman bearded and hairy face. “Sacred Brittania: The Gods and Rituals of Roman Britain.” By Miranda Aldhouse-Greene.
An orange ribbon with red text says “Decolonize Anthropology.” A white sticker says “I love anthropology.” There is a navy blue enamel pin with the AAA logo. A metal pin features Zora Neale Hurston and says “Zora to new heights.” A picture of Franz Boas says “Let’s be Franz.”
Black text on white paper. A few sentences are boxed in blue pen with a star in the margin. “Respondents in Canada and Japan, and also among African American descendant communities, spoke of the difficulties that emerge when researchers and others take shortcuts with respect to consent, choosing token representatives who are aligned with their projects. They understood these practices as attempts to circumvent authentic informed consent. They are unethical, and they disempower descendant communities by performing a kind of "consultation" without following tribal or community protocols. Our respondents believed that research collaboration or cooperation must follow descendant decisions.”
Flyer for a zoom panel about uncontacted Indigenous tribes. Full text at https://social.desa.un.org/sites/default/files/Draft%20Programme%20-%20IDWIP%202024.pdf
Cover of Current Archaeology magazine May edition. An index finger points to a tree in an aerial view of country buildings in a clearing.
Hardcover book with aqua and kelpy green paint lines with a white title box: Teaching Ancient Egypt in Museums: Pedagogies in Practice.
A collage of four pictures with white cursive text that says 30 June to 26 July 2024 Book Now! Clockwise from top left: a man pushing a GPR cart in the bailey of a castle, a woman takes notes at a surveyor’s tripod, a far view of the castle with a green field in the foreground, and red headed woman digs out a blocked doorway as seen from above.