The almost full moon (waxing gibbous 94.5%) on Monday evening.

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... 🦆🦢🪺🐦🏺

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. Please Like Share and Subscribe.

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! forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

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?

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...

🚨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

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

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🙂🌼

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

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

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...

📣 Register now for 'Digitisation and fingerwork' 5 May, St John's College buff.ly/VBW3sWY 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

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 @archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Oh my goodness.

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

Must read!

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!

🧪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

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. 🧪

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.

Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA

✨💡 Shining light on dark matter… but plot twist: it’s about obsidian, not astrophysics! Thanks to confocal microscopy and 3D texture analysis, we are unlocking the hidden stories of use-wear on experimental obsidian tools 🧐🔬 👀 Have a look here #OpenAccess link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Recent lecture at @heasvienna.bsky.social by Mehmet Somel on aDNA work done at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye. The paper will hopefully be out soon! 🏺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzQ...

Thanks to @salonnewsroom.bsky.social for the great excerpt from Nicole Karlis's YOUR BRAIN ON ALTRUISM: The Power of Connection and Community during Times of Crisis: "Primate and neuroscience studies tell us a lot about how evolution rewards kindness and cooperation": www.salon.com/2025/03/16/a...

New 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘢 article on the historical politicization of the invasive black locust (𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘥𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘢) in Hungary. Read "Links between State Power and Tree Species: Black Locust in Central Europe" by Robert Balogh on the Environment & Society Portal! #envhist

I am mired in terrifying news every day and this manages to stand out.

Greek artist Danae Stratou, Desert Breath (1997) collaborative large scale land art installation (Egyptian desert) covering 25 acres #WomensArt

On International Women’s Day, solidarity with the women of Palestine, Sudan, Congo and all others living under bombs, bullets and forced displacement. No feminism without peace, justice and freedom from imperialism and colonialism ✌️✊🇵🇸 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kingston University’s administration has put forward a plan to shut down the entire Department of Humanities, which includes the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP). www.e-flux.com/notes/658933...

Great topic for the next Nordic TAG: Links between theory and activism.

Female snowy owl © By francisrommedia

This Sunday, at the @southbankcentre, the City of London Sinfonia and the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 will be collaborating on an evening of music and readings inspired by Edward Said’s last, posthumous book, 𝘖𝘯 𝘓𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘦. Tickets here: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/a-f...

Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙😍 Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro on the eastern coast of the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Heading to Turin for the AviArch kick-off! 🦆🦢🦚☺️ archaeobiomics.com/aviarch-avif...

I'm very proud to have contributed to this new paper led by Camilla Mazzucato, which combines aDNA and material culture data in order to understand social organisation and kinship systems at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Türkiye 🏺

The supposed 'neutrality' & head in the sand attitudes that archaeology is somehow detached from all this need to end now. The idea you can detach and just focus on some old pot sherds or whatever is absolute nonsense. Archaeological organisations need to speak up.

I’d like to use my newfound infamy as a scientific opponent of the case for a “Proto-Indo-European Homeland” in the Caucasus to draw attention to an open letter by Prof. Rafi Greenberg, which concerns an impending conference on #archaeology in the Occupied West Bank.

Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist. Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that! blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...