The Archaeology Institute at Humboldt University is facing closure. It follows the decision to discontinue the Restoration/Excavation course at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft. Archaeology remains at the FU Berlin, but for how long? Please sign and share! weact.campact.de/petitions/sc...

To celebrate its bicentenary, UCL have published 200 short profiles of current and past figures, including some I wrote like this one on Frank Salkilld, the popular beadle who had a lucrative side hustle selling unsold items like oversized woollen socks from student bazaars #history #UCL200

The European Association of Archaeologists Executive has worked hard to bury this result inside a long document. But we're going to make this triumph of compassion, common sense & demand for transparency known to all. Help us by sharing. @archagainstaparth.bsky.social @blacktrowel.bsky.social

Apparently the ExecBoard has chosen to not implement them and instead delegate on an unspecified 'taskforce' with no timeline. We need action now if we're to rescue the EAA from the authoritarian clique that has hijacked the Board and bullied anyone who attempted to dissent.

The Association of Archaeologists in Greece, representing all the archaeologists with permanent contracts in the state sector, is withdrawing its participation in the organizing of the @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social conference in Athens..Open letter, in English, below. archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

3rd International Congress "Under the Mediterranean", Palermo & Marsala, 21- 26 September 2026 underthemediterranean3.org

"Machine Learning Applications in Archaeological Practices: A Review" journal.caa-international.org/articles/10....

Big thanks to Peter Hargreaves for reporting on the Islands and Island Studies conference in the Jersey Evening Post! #wedoislands

aDNA study of the "Phoenicians" is a "striking example of culture spreading without mass migration to reinforce it". www.science.org/.../most-pho.... aDNA study of the "Vikings" reveals it was a way of life rather than an ethnicity (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) Why is this even surprising?

Apply now!! for our 2025 Island Archaeology Field School - Jersey! w/ the fantastic @mattpope.bsky.social @helendawson.bsky.social and @duvalrv.bsky.social [email protected] / www.jicas.ac.je #wedoislands

I'd like to put together a set of priorities or a "decolonisation manifesto" for researchers focusing on the study of islands as a means to ensure accountability. Please help me by posting your suggestions, including any relevant examples or practical tips. What should be in it? #wedoislands

The next DIG conference (Developing International Geoarchaeology) will take place in beautiful Tübingen in May! For more info, see: sites.google.com/view/dig2025...

Thrilled about all the speakers and especially the island archaeology session at the Islands and Island Studies conference in Jersey! shimajournal.org/conferences.... @mattpope.bsky.social @duvalrv.bsky.social @jicasjsy.bsky.social @pmesneyflo.bsky.social @lettyingrey.bsky.social #wedoislands

Thought-provoking paper on the life cycles of Neolithic grinding stones - what I don’t get is the association with women in particular, given that only one was found in a female burial. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

March is Women’s History Month: to learn about pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology, and geology, check out trowelblazers.com

Important new initiative to promote ethical development in the field of island archaeology: Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage cocah.net

Back to the field, working of the wild macrofauna from #Grotta120 #Lampedusa #SILVA @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

SICRI's New Voices in Island Studies meeting Tuesday 11th March Athens 9am | Antananarivo 10am | Jakarta 2pm | Manila 3pm | Tokyo 4pm | Hobart 6pm | Wellington 8pm Open to all new and emerging scholars and practitioners in the field of Island Studies To book your spot www.trybooking.com/uk/EMNR

Join us online for our 2025 #Island #Archaeology #FieldSchool open event, Thursday, 27 February, 6pm. [email protected] for Zoom invite #wedoislands

Paper recommendation: We rarely, if ever, think about sails in ancient maritime travel. Naval power and textile technology: Sail production in ancient Greece ⛵ #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us online for our next Cafe Scientifique! 'Protected Areas in Small #Island Developing States: The Case Study of Nelson's Dockyard, National Park, #Antigua and #Barbuda, #Caribbean'. [email protected] for Zoom invite. #wedoislands

#Arctic #climateheritage🏺 “If anything happens to one building, they can easily replace it...But you can’t replace a culture and a history. If you let those die out, they’re next to impossible to bring back.”

Beyond "islanders": we often talk in abstract terms about groups and populations but who were the people who settled the world's islands, how many women, men, children, and elders? Are there any up-to-date studies that look into founder populations and sustainable island demographics? #wedoislands

In Science (p. 462) this week, my colleagues--Scott Fitzpatrick, Kristina Gill, Patrick Kirch, John Ruiz, Victor Thompson, Jason Younker--and I warn of the dire threat rising seas (0.81 cm in 2024!) and marine erosion pose for coastal archaeological sites worldwide. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

So many great island sessions at the next EAA in Belgrade! 69 Wayfaring and place-making in the Mediterranean Sea 108 Adaptations and Responses to Climate Change on Islands and in Coastal Areas around the Mediterranean #wedoislands

More island sessions at the next EAA in Belgrade: 150 Finding the Way: Exploring Island Archaeology through Archaeological Sciences 203 Fortified by Nature, Protected by Water: Comparing Fortifications on Natural and Artifical Islands in Lakes Through the Ages #wedoislands

Island sessions at the EAA Belgrade 113 All for one, understand human and non-human relationships in coastal and island contexts from an interdisciplinary perspective 130 Islands and Submerged Landscapes of the Palaeolithic: The Coastal and Continental Areas of the Mediterranean in Interaction

How can island archaeology contribute to our understanding of issues faced by minorities, refugees, and homeless people? By challenging dominant narratives and emphasising alternative perspectives, by amplifying the voices of marginalised groups and reframing narratives of exclusion #wedoislands

Joint us in Belgrade #EAA for island #archaeology

"Our study underscores the need to integrate both ecological and anthropogenic factors when studying island biodiversity and calls for further research into how these forces interact in insular ecosystems." #wedoislands academic.oup.com/biolinnean/a...

Island archaeology can provide insights into space exploration, cool or what?! #wedoislands www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New Year, new Island! This January we started a new archaeological project on the island of Ustica (Sicily) with Dr Claudia Speciale @claudiaspecial.bsky.social and Dr Giacomo Vinci #wedoislands

If this has whetted your appetite for Island Archaeology then follow people on @helendawson.bsky.social starter pack. With Helen, @duvalrv.bsky.social and JICAS we run and island archaeology field school. So consider joining us. 🏺 www.jicas.ac.je/island-arcah...

Ooh, tonight’s Digging for Britain is a LUSH one - our first ever episode focusing just on Islands! Some gorgeous sites - from Jersey in the south to Orkney in the north, and everything from Neanderthals to the Iron Age! 8pm, BBC Two. Don’t forget!

The narrowing academic career path for women - POSTER! This seems to have struck a chord with #WomenInStem, and we've even had a few requests for a poster-sized version so here it is: zenodo.org/records/1424... From our paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... @janethering.bsky.social

In 2005, Scott Fitzpatrick and I started as founding coeditors of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology. In 2025, under Scott’s continued leadership, JICA will publish its 20th volume! Still going strong, with more than 8,000 pages on our deep entanglement with island & coastal ecosystems.

Islands and Communities: Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging, edited by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (open access) www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19... #wedoislands

My latest PhD paper is now out on the late Pleistocene tusk shell beads from Boodie Cave, Barrow Island, northwest Australia. The paper also includes discussion of usewear analysis and experimental archaeology. doi.org/10.1080/0312...

Research should be more about sharing what moves us to study what we do! Thanks to Dr Valia Papoutsaki and SICRI’s Island Conversations podcast series for allowing me to talk freely about my passion for island studies and Mediterranean island archaeology! #wedoislands www.sicri.net/copy-of-isla...

Playing pretending Essay by April Nowell on childhood during the Ice Age: aeon.co/essays/what-...

"Islands in Global History". A review of The Boundless Sea (2019), A World at Sea (2020), and África y sus islas (2021) by Laura Dierksmeier #wedoislands www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Are you doing research in island archaeology and heritage?Contact us if you would like to publish your next book or edited volume as part of this exciting new series! #wedoislands

Our "Islands of Transformation" project has a webpage! uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/... #wedoislands

Join us in Jersey in June 2025 for the Islands and Island Studies conference. For info: shimajournal.org/conferences.... #wedoislands

Celebrating 20 years of SICRI, working with and supporting small island communities! www.sicri.net #wedoislands

Join the Island Studies conversation! #wedoislands go.bsky.app/HnTxhpJ

A lovely review of, among other things, our edited volume A World at Sea: Maritime Practices and Global History. By Laura Dierksmeier in Itinerario.

Come to our conference in Malta on Mediterranean island prehistory, June 2025! There is still a couple of weeks to submit abstracts but places are filling fast. www.um.edu.mt/events/islan...