Camilla Mazzucato

Congratulations Brenna!! 👏

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

AviArch is hiring! archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif... 🦆🦢🪺🐦🏺

YouTube video by The Watching Brief EAA President (allegedly) Orchestrated Campaign Against EAA Board!

Thank you to everyone who has read and shared our story about the allegations the President of the #EAA supported a campaign pressuring the Executive Board to reverse its Gaza vote.

There is now a #WatchingBrief video with a discussion putting the story in context.

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Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

We are starting to move an initiative from concerned EAA members, mainly from Spain… if you are/were and are interested to support it, sign and share!

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EAA IN CRISIS AFTER GAZA POLICY U-TURN The BBC’s political satire “The Thick of It” coined a term for a self inflicted public relations disaster, which only gets worse, an Omnishambles. Now the leading representative o…

European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) executive has made some very poor & shameful decisions

There is an ongoing Israeli state-sponsored genocide in Gaza, at least 60,000 have been killed, all 12 universities have been destroyed, most heritage sites ruined, libraries razed.

Where is EAA?

CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…

In light of the EAA board’s recent decision, I will no longer be presenting at the conference. I cannot in good conscience support or contribute to an event under these circumstances. I stand in solidarity with Palestinian people. 🏺#EAA2025 blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

CALL TO ACTION: EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…

🚨An asbolute disgrace on the part of the EAA!
"Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity"
cc @archagainstaparth.bsky.social
blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

Final #SINGSábme lecture given by Dr. Betsy Nelson (SMU anthropology and #SINGCanada). Co-authored by me but it's mostly her work: "Decolonizing Paleogenomics and Pathogens: Indigenous led Science and the Power of Storytelling."

In just under 3 weeks, we look forward to welcoming researchers from 40 countries in Turin, Italy for ISBA11

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #ISBAconference #archaeologicalconference #Turin
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social

Hunger That Defeats Language “The hunger I’m experiencing now is not what I imagined. It’s not what you imagine, dear reader. It’s not just an empty feeling in your stomach. It’s a numbness that s…

Since this was published, another month passed.
arablit.org/2025/05/30/h...

“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...

Since our big Science paper on female lineages at Çatalhöyük is out now, it seems like a good time to repost our related paper that we published earlier this year on material and biological ties🙂🌼

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük Combining 131 paleogenomes with bioarchaeological and archaeological data, we studied social organization and gendered practices in Çatalhöyük East Mound (7100 to 5950 BCE), a major Neolithic settleme...

After many years this is out now, many congratulations to everybody!

Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic Traditionally, lithic artefacts have served as the principal proxy for the definition of archaeological cultures in the Upper Paleolithic. However, the culture-historical framework in use, constructed...

Just out! we challenge the long-standing tradition of defining Upper Paleolithic cultures primarily through stone tool artefacts. Instead, we turn to personal ornaments to explore cultural identities during the past shorturl.at/8mxKe @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

Help Gazan students to complete their university degrees The war in Gaza has devastated the region’s higher education infrastructure. Several universities have been damaged or destroyed, forcing students to continue their studies online under extremely diff...

We are fundraising to support #archaeology #students in #Gaza to settle their tuition fees & complete their degrees. We've worked with them at the #GAZAMAP project monitoring vulnerable #culturalheritage. Please donate and share: gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

Digitisation and fingerwork - CRASSH Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

📣 Register now for 'Digitisation and fingerwork'

5 May, St John's College
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Join Tim Ingold (Aberdeen) and the Textile-Digital network for a discussion about preserving millenia-old manual skills for future generations in the light of raising digitisation

Today in Italy, we also celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism, which occurred on April 25th, 1945! 💪

We are pleased to announce that the early bird registration deadline has been extended to May 7th!
www.isba11.com/registration/

#archaeology #biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA11 #archaeologists
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What’s more vacuous than an endless vacuum? It’s Lauren Sánchez and Katy Perry’s party in space | Marina Hyde The all-female Blue Origin flight on Monday broke boundaries and set records in the spouting of girlboss gibberish, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Oh my goodness.

Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.

A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra

NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀

Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯

A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛

Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

Must read!

Cameroon's Baka people say they are part of the forest: That's why they look after it The Congo Basin's hunter-gatherer people have the secret to living well with the forest.

Simon Hoyte's report on the Baka, their forests and the impacts of conservation and development.

For the Baka : "They believe the ultimate way to achieve joy is through sharing. Elders told us: "If the forest is shared properly, everyone will live well.""

phys.org/news/2025-03...

"Ancient genetics offers a new suite of data about past people and their worlds, but it is just one source among many that must be tested, twined together and teased apart to make sense of the complexhuman practices that ultimately created the archaeological record." Great work and conclusions!

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

🧪1/2 Here’s a sample of words flagged by US agencies for restriction/avoidance, according to government documents as Trump seeks to purge the federal government of progressive initiatives. Archaeology has never been so disruptive! shorturl.at/dka55 #sciencenotsilence @standupforscience.bsky.social

“Bears are like family”: Indigenous insights on human-polar bear coexistence Our entire project started with a cup of tea. Through storytelling, our coauthors share how braiding methodologies from Indigenous ways of knowing and social sciences helped us gather knowledge to inform inclusive research and polar bear management strategies.

Katharina Miller, Dominique Henri and Michael Lickers write a Behind the Paper post about their research in Communications Earth & Environment that explores how Indigenous communities in Canada have coexisted with polar bears and what the future holds for these communities. 🧪

Adam Shatz | Submission There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...

Submission, indeed!

Shortly after Hossam Shabat reported on the killing of fellow journalist Muhammad Mansour (who was killed along with his wife) he too was murdered.

An ideology that consecrates land theft sees no value in human life. Israel has now killed over 200 journalists.