Scott D. Haddow

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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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I've just sent my letter to the board. Let's hope they respond.

Another aspect of the dystopian future we can look forward to.

Photograph of two public noticeboards in Turin showing the accumulated remnants of posters and other public notifications.

Unintentional collage art on these public noticeboards in Turin.

Are you disputing that Maya Wind is a scholar and has written extensively on this subject? Interesting.

The Complicity of Israeli Academia Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.

As scholar Maya Wind has documented, all Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the military occupation of Palestine, including HUJI, which hosts the Havatzalot training program for IDF officers. jewishcurrents.org/the-complici...

Drop the collab with Hebrew University immediately The Ministry of Higher Education says you should not to collaborate with such institutions. Researchers ask in new featured comment: What more do you need, UCPH?

Since 1967, the university has expanded its campus beyond the armistice line and into occupied East Jerusalem. uniavisen.dk/en/drop-the-...

And it's deeply ironic that the EAA criticizes the "collective punishment" of scholars affiliated with Israeli institutions (who were not prevented from presenting at the conference), while the Israeli military has been collectively punishing the people of Gaza without mercy for nearly two years.

The board "deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues", but (apart from a wishy-washy, both-sides statement issued in 2024) no mention of the very real and ongoing harm committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage.

Screenshot of today's statement by the EAA executive board from the conference website: "At its Belgrade meeting on 1 September, the majority of the Executive Board decided to reverse its earlier decision to remove the affiliations of delegates from Israel. On further reflection, the Board recognised this action had been rushed and misjudged due to lack of sufficient information, and time pressure. We deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues, with whom we will shortly be in touch. Our prime objective is to move forward on all EAA matters in a way that better represents the spirit and ethos of the EAA as enshrined in its Statutes: to eliminate political actions, which includes collective punishment. The Board seeks to develop a long-term strategy, a plan that focuses on how to be productive within the remit of the EAA, and this process needs some time. The Membership will have the opportunity to comment and endorse it in due course."

Really pathetic statement on their part as well. What information could they possibly be lacking? They certainly seem to have missed yesterday's announcement by the International Association of Genocide Scholars that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide”.

Utterly disappointing decision by @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social to reverse this decision, and really gross to see intimidation tactics being instructed for session monitors. Support colleagues who speak up and who refuse to enforce the EAA's instructions. 🏺

Early morning photograph of Copenhagen taken from the lakes looking towards the Dronning Louise's bridge.

Last photo of Copenhagen before heading to the airport.

Photo of an apartment filled with boxes and disassembled furniture.

Photo of a building exterior with a furniture lift taking our belongings down from the 5th floor balcony.

Photo of a building exterior with a furniture lift taking our belongings down from the 5th floor balcony.

Photo of an empty apartment after the movers have completed their work.

Last day in Copenhagen. After six years, it's time to start a new adventure in Torino.

Do they look like terrorists to you?

Police have arrested an 83-year-old priest and a human rights lawyer among 25 others for holding these signs in Parliament Square today.

Showing support for Palestine Action now constitutes a terrorism offence under UK law. 🤡

YouTube video by Sam Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July (Official Video) HD

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‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe Witnesses describe explosion, flames and smoke plumes as airstrike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into a horror

‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe. “The hospital was completely full of the wounded and the dead – because the cafe was crowded with women, children and the young. It was not a suspicious or military place.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated ...

Out today! New research on how people create large-scale collectives in the past, and how elites were not a prerequisite to the process. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview of a different part of the world. #archaeology #inequality

www.routledge.com/Understandin...

"First hand reports from Gaza overnight talk about some of the most intense airstrikes.. one building that was hit in eastern Gaza city, for example, was a former school where hundreds of families were sheltering.. & there said to be several fatalities there"

But Glastonbury!

Congratulations Tom!

This is literally exhibit A for why queer joy is so profoundly subversive. Anger is important too. But joy -- "smiling and talking and crying and laughing" -- that's what the fascists want to stamp out. That's the real challenge to their reign.

“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🙂🌼

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

BREAKING: DR Congo and Rwanda sign peace deal in ‘turning point’ after years of war aje.io/3n0wrv

Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...

We also published a second paper on the spread of farming from Anatolia into SE Europe. Our results challenge the assumption that cultural entities frequently correspond to genetically homogeneous populations. Pots don’t equal people! 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ancient 'female-centered' society thrived 9,000 years ago in proto-city in Turkey Genetic analysis of skeletons buried in a Neolithic proto-city in Turkey reveals that female lineages were important in early agricultural societies.

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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...

This paper has been in the works for many years and today it's finally out!
"Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük" 🏺
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by Water From Your Eyes Water From Your Eyes - "Life Signs" (Official Music Video)

I don't rock out as much as I used to, but I'm currently obsessed with this song and the accompanying video (midlife crisis perhaps?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1reS...

Sedimentary ancient DNA as part of a multimethod paleoparasitology approach reveals temporal trends in human parasitic burden in the Roman period Author summary A multimethod approach in paleoparasitology, combining microscopy, ELISA and aDNA, provides a more complete reconstruction of past parasite diversity. Applying this multimethod approach...

Happy to have played a minor role in this new study, which developed a multi-method approach to the reconstruction of parasite diversity in past populations 🏺
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Excited to share my new #OpenAccess paper in Archaeometry, part of a great Special Issue! 🔬🌾
What can lithics tell us about early food production?
Insights into Neolithic harvesting practices and cultural change in SW Asia.
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#Neolithic #Archaeology #Lithics #Use-wear #Confocal