Found in translation: towards a richer archaeological language

English is the academic lingua franca. It allows us to share ideas across linguistic borders and enables transnational discourse and communication. For over a century it has brought people together and facilitated new connections, communication, and sharing of ideas, and by so doing, truly enriched our scholarship.Despite these great advantages, however, this brings significant disadvantages to non-native English speakers. Challenges which, we argue, are largely ignored or unacknowledged in our Anglophone dominated field. What we want to address here is the existence of linguistic privilege (Politzer-Ahles et al. 2016) and to contemplate what it means in the context of archaeological scholarship and labour.