Heading to Cardiff today to look at a skeletal assemblage from a very interesting new archaeological site. #TeamNun www.bbc.com/news/article... 🏺

Next Tuesday I'll be delivering a free and public plenary lecture at @cam.ac.uk for @mmll-cambridge.bsky.social about my work and lived experiences of researching and creating archaeologies of disability. If you're based in Cambridge and are interested in disability and the humanities, come along!

Strontium isotope analysis of human teeth from the Neolithic site of Bestansur (Iraqi Kurdistan) sheds light on human mobility during a time of increasing sedentism. www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

"Recent Discoveries at Cheops’ Red Sea Port in Wadi al-Jarf." An April 30th lecture by Pierre Tallet, with online attendance possible. Exciting! #Egyptology #AncientBlueSky www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

Please keep sharing our statement here: drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn... If you're an archaeologist, you can add you signature here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le thank you #archaeology

81 years ago today, Italy was liberated from fascism. #bellaciao #25aprile

Some photos from the opening of the #Gaza exhibition we attended last night in Turin, which represents "a dialogue between #archaeology and contemporary art" highlighting "the historical and cultural depth of Gaza, a millennial crossroads of trade, cultures and beliefs".🏺

📣 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!) 🍉✊🏼🍉 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! forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

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

Unintentional collage art on these public noticeboards in Turin.

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!

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

Still one of the funkiest basslines of all time. Rest in Power Sly Stone www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T9v...

Legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has passed away. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"First aid trucks enter Gaza for nearly 3 months". The actual amount of aid let in is negligible but it does its job of giving Israels allies cover while Israel gets on with its plan to completely wipe out Gaza (as Israels finance minister openly declared yesterday).

I remember being being very disappointed when I visited Père Lachaise in 1995 and the bust wasn't there. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Public lecture we are hosting at the end of the month, bound to be great.

A follow-up to an earlier post on the Diana Kirkbride Beidha archive at Copenhagen University. One of the most interesting objects in the collection is this strange worked sandstone artifact, roughly 28cm x 18cm x 7 cm.

Copenhagen marathon running past our apartment this morning.

Between 1637 and 1697, people who died at Milan's biggest hospital were dropped into underground vaults. Now their remains (including nearly 3 million bones & preserved brains) are helping archaeologists reconstruct the lives, diet and drug habits of people historians often overlook. @science.org

the right-wing culture-warriors are still fighting their increasingly marginal and bizarre battles in the op-ed pages of the certain newspapers of course, but I confess that I didn't see this one coming 😱

Some classic 4AD musical vibes on Maria Somerville's new album www.youtube.com/watch?v=HElo...

Sad to hear about the passing of University of Alberta Dept. of Classics Prof. Maurizio Gualtieri. My first archaeological excavation outside of Canada was on the field school he ran with his wife Prof. Helena Fracchia in Cortona, Tuscany in 1995. 🏺 www.ualberta.ca/en/history-c...

RIP David Thomas of Pere Ubu. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1s...

👀💀 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

A micromorphological analysis of non-standard buildings at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) by Aroa García-Suárez🏺 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The United Arab Emirates can be plausibly found “complicit in the commission of genocide” by arming the Rapid Support Forces militia in Sudan’s civil war. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

The Turkish site of Girmeler is providing important new info on the Neolithization process in SW Anatolia🏺 arkeonews.net/early-anatol...

An interview with Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University jacobin.com/2025/04/bart...

Across War Zones, targeting Healthcare has become a Strategy, not an Accident

The RSF’s massacre in Darfur isn’t just ‘tragic’—it’s sponsored. The UAE funds, arms, and legitimizes these butchers. #Sudan

‘The demand is that to be safe from persecution, you must pluck out your eyes. Instead of ejecting Gaza from domestic politics, Israel’s allies have brought the war home.’ This week’s column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And the new album by Galaxie 500/Luna frontman Dean Wareham is great too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A92x...