Guillermo Diaz de Liaño

Also, thanks to the editors at JMA, who helped me make this text more readable and clear. Of course, all issues remaining are solely my fault!

English-speaking world. Here you have the full reference, in case anybody is bored enough to check it out!
doi.org/10.1558/jma....

Of Southeastern Iberia, was finally published. It includes some of the results from my PhD at Edinburgh, and hopefully can make a useful contribution to a debate that is just starting in Spanish archaeology, while also bringing some new fresh theories to studies of personhood in the...

While in 2022-2023, with the new job at MOLA, I struggled to publish -I had to learn a lot of new things!- these recent months have been more productive, and a few things have recently came out. I am particularly happy that this article about personhood in the Argar, in the Bronze Age...

"Policymakers should redistribute the money they spend on APCs to non-commercial presses [...]. Universities should support these presses via in-house services where possible"

📣 Exactly the Spanish, Portuguese & most Latin American countries' model **since decades**! But hey, what do we know...

thanks!! 😊😊

...from year to year, depending on where the Annual Meeting takes place.

They can, of course! We need current members to request the Special Meeting, but anyone who has been a member is welcomed! We feel that, in this case, showing strength in numbers of both members and ex-members is quite important, as we know that EAA membership numbers vary a lot

Here you have the new link! If you have already signed, do not do it again, as all previous answers have been saved already. We are just a handful of signatures away from having enough members to call for a Special Meeting of the EAA! Sign and spread the word!
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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...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

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...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

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...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!

There were sessions were both volunteers and session organisers were policing comments about Palestine on Friday, once that order was supposedly revoked.

I haven't met Dr. Kamash in person, but she was absolutely incredible yesterday!

PS: It is worth adding that the session organisers have been understanding and supportive of my decision, and defended my right to say whatever I would have wanted to say. I just think that this was the best course of action but, of course, there are many ways of dealing with this situation.

... participate. I only hope that on Friday, at the general meeting, we can be heard and vote against these decisions. Otherwise, I shall be abandoning my membership. I have thoroughly enjoyed attending EAA for the past 3 years, but maybe this is our WAC moment?

...and claim that the EAA should not be politicised (and if we are not political, wtf are we even doing here??) and threating to use volunteers, the most junior people at the conference, to enforce such horrible decision. I don't want to force a volunteer to kick me out, and thus I shall not

...of my talk, while we are witnessing the failure of the largest organisation of archaeologists in Europe to stand against genocide. On top of this lack of ethics, the handling of the situation during the last couple of days has been calamitous, trying to silence political dissense

Considering the events in the last couple of days, I have decided to not participate with my talk at EAA today. I am deeply sorry as the session was fascinating, and I was excited. I just don't feel able to discuss the impact of Capitalism in Archaeology's disciplinary culture, which was the topic

Congrats Sarah!! I am excited to read it one day!!

ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right This study examines political biases in ChatGPT-4o’s interpretations of memoryscapes linked to dictatorial regimes in Spanish-speaking countries. Using a least-to-most prompting model and a Discour...

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

This is fascinating!!

Where should archaeologists dig next? The winners of this OpenAI contest can tell them. Archeological sites, like those in the Amazon, are disappearing faster than we can find them. Can AI help?

This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

YouTube video by Council for British Archaeology Going Around in Circles: Methods of recording, analysis, & studying quernstone quarries in Scotland

Excited for #FestivalOfArchaeology #YouthDay? Catch Grace Heller’s quernstone quarry talk now! 🪨👇

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVhW...

More talks coming on the day! Sign up 👉 shorturl.at/qS9dN

#StudentAndEarlyCareersConference

Student and Early Careers Conference 2025: Jessica Nutt Poster Presentation

🛡️ Think Vikings skipped Wales? Think again!

Jessica Nutt’s poster dives into overlooked Viking conflicts in early medieval Wales, uncovering battlefields, movement, and surprising alliances through a predictive model.

A must-read for anyone interested in conflict archaeology! 👉 shorturl.at/DExym

Why the American School of Overseas Research might be legally liable for complicity w genocide as per Francesca Albanese's new report
Despite 2 years of genocide, ASOR continues to fund work in Israel. Take this seemingly innocent post 1/ 🧵

CFP poster: Commercial, museum, and academic archaeology have had a historically complex relationship, shaped by sector-led constraints concerning differing methodologies, objectives, and institutional practice. While all sectors contribute valuable insights, collaboration between them remains limited, often hindered by differing aims and objectives, funding constraints, and disciplinary biases. Rather than focusing solely on the structural boundaries that separate them, we highlight initiatives emerging from fieldwork that are reshaping how archaeological data is produced and managed, with a research-driven, critical, and socially engaged outlook. We begin from the premise that professional archaeology cannot be reduced to a purely technical or operational task. This session offers a space for dialogue between professional archaeology and the academic sphere, aiming to share experiences, practices, and reflections that allow us to rethink the often-fragmented relationship between both fields. It considers the consequences and challenges of cross-sector research while foregrounding the epistemological potential of professional archaeology through collaborations with professionals, universities, and communities. Attention is also given to the need for a more joined-up approach to archaeological material, data collection and interpretation, and look at how a wider engagement with theory might be useful outside of academia. Participants are invited to critically examine institutional frameworks, working conditions, administrative constraints, ethical practice and the tensions that arise in the margins of everyday archaeological practice. We especially welcome contributions from those who have implemented collaborative projects, developed innovative methodologies, or engaged in critical reflection on their archaeological practice—and who wish to collectively explore new ways of connecting theory and action on the ground. get in touch: leila.araar@york.ac.uk

CFP: "Between Ivory Towers and Portacabins: Dialogues between professional archaeology and academia on practice, theory and cross-sector research"

Co-organised by @leilaar.bsky.social, York PhD student working with MOLA to understand digital recording for @tag2025york.bsky.social

This might have passed English colleagues by, but academic and development-led (preventative) archaeologists are united in protests across France today against changed heritage legislation in the government.

Solidarity with their struggles and I hope to join them later this afternoon. 🖤