📣 EAA Members 📣
If you haven't signed yet or have been trying to sign today, the original Google form was removed (all data saved, thankfully!)
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Here is the NEW LINK: saco.csic.es/apps/forms/s...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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. 🏺
Last photo of Copenhagen before heading to the airport.
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. 🤡
‘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...
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.
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
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/...
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/...
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...
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 🏺
journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
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.
📖 buff.ly/9mDIJGb
#Neolithic #Archaeology #Lithics #Use-wear #Confocal
