It took some time but our reflection on #gender #stereotypes in #archaeology is now out @springernature.com link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

Hello hello, please share ⚠️ 17 hours left—these families, with very little internet connection, are relying on us in the dark to help them pay for transportation & shelter to flee Gaza City. They need to book trucks and buy tents. You can help. 36/1000

EUROPEAN DECLARATION OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION Faculty and staff in European higher education and research declare their conscientious objection to collaborating with Israeli institutions complicit in severe violations of international law. To sign, visit uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

#OTD 19 September 1991, walkers in the high Ötztal alps on the Italian border, found a body melting out of the ice. It turned out to be the remains of a c.5200 year old man preserved with all his kit. Of course, it was essential to replicate him in Playmobil. 1🧵 #PlaymobilÖtzi #PlaymobilInfestation

EXCLUSIVE: EAA PRESIDENT ACCUSED OF HELPING ORCHESTRATE PROTEST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HER OWN EXECUTIVE BOARD’S GAZA VOTE thePipeLine with the extraordinary story of how the President of the European Association of Archaeologists is accused of helping orchestrate a campaign to overturn its Gaza vote.

Please share 🚨 our giving circle evacuation drive continues—four families helped, two more to go! A donor is matching *$2,050* to help get life-saving transport & tents for two young women & their families. First half goal: 189/4000 by Sunday

Would anyone have pointers for the ornamentation on this (presumably) neolithic sherd? Sadly no site of origin recorded... 🏺

🚨 Now only 23 hours for us to help trapped siblings and their mom 🚨 @akramabdelwahed.bsky.social has been vetted a million different ways on here. Now it's our job to save his family's lives as they're besieged in Gaza City. Funds are for transportation + shelter south: 1031/3000 by Wednesday

Getting horrible panic attacks today because of well *gestures vaguely* the state of things. Wishing for some more hopeful feelings soon - my colleagues being a bit more supportive and empathetic would help as well. Alas...

EVACUATION DRIVE - shares needed 🚨 Akram, his young siblings, and their mom are trapped in Gaza City. The whole area is evacuated—they need to get out. At least two other families in the circle also need this support. We have to try—ANYTHING helps. 730/3000 by WEDNESDAY chuffed.org/project/hope...

A database of archaeology Codes of Ethics. 🏺

Today we highlight single mom Mai, who wrote to me yesterday that she is "besieged in every way" in the north of Gaza. She desperately needs funds for shelter, food, supplies. YOU CAN HELP. Give/find her link here. It HELPS. 5/3000 by Saturday chuffed.org/project/hope...

Real learning is hard. It’s a slow, confusing process where you sometimes have to read long books with dreadful covers, and look at footnotes and shit. It requires us to recognize and then overcome our biases as best we can. theoutline.com/post/6709/de...

Students are STILL studying in Gaza! Here’s how to help them! Over a hundred kids are taking their secondary exams for the first time in two years, and the Spark volunteers are helping with shelter & electricity—WE help with the cost. 36 hours left—0/500 chuffed.org/project/spar...

You’re used to me saying we have a day to save Spark Space, but this time, we have a day to save the rare and PRECIOUS opportunity of over a hundred kids taking secondary exams in the space. Any boldness welcome to keep the lights on. 34 hours left—0/500 chuffed.org/project/spar...

I've written a piece about the bomber's view of the past: how aerial archaeologists of the Middle East have looked at the region's past through the eyes (and lenses) of people who bomb it in the present. In fact they're sometimes the same people. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/empire-decol...

Sitting out on the balcony, drinking tea, having a smoke, rain as background noise. Today's been a better one.

EAA members. The new form is here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/QInTdoHZ Sign and share to annoy a fascist today! #eaa2025

It's totally unfair to judge the Israeli state based on the actions of the Prime Minister, Defense Minister, Finance Minister, National Security Minister, Diaspora Minister, Foreign Minister, and Settlements Minister. You're also taking their calls to flatten Gaza and kill everyone out of context.

EAA members: 305 signatures needed on this. The aim of the meeting is to discuss again the genocide in Gaza, and the handling of the situation by the Exec. Board. Now is the time to make our voices heard. Deadline = end Sept, but don’t delay, sign & share now #eaa2025 #🏺 forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!

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...

And for precisely 0 pounds / dollars / euros / riyals / mark / rupees / pesos / ringgits etc you can join us at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social, a society dedicated to studying the past in solidarity with the occupied and the oppressed, instead: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Has the executive board lost its mind? We are just moving on?? This is another level of professional failure. Incomprehensible. #eaa2025

Germans speaking on Palestine... a horror every single time. Jesus christ!

@zenakamash.bsky.social is the best of us

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences. aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

I've emailed every member of the Editorial Board - have you? Please do - commenting on social media is one way, but a full inbox of individual emails is a whole other thing... #Archaeology 🏺 #EAA2025

So.. either the EAA President knew & agreed to this statement/email going out without board approval (so breach of constitution?) Or didnt know & has lost control of the organisation/brought it in to disrepute? Surely either way she should resign? Can members bring a vote of no confidence?

What an absolute mess. See you all there, let's demand answers

I'm not in EAA, or a member, but if you are, people are being advised to attend the meeting on Friday. It would seem the board was not aware of the email or statement and it was not agreed by the board. 1/2 #Archaeology 🏺

BTC Call for Action - EAA EAA reversed its decision to exclude Israeli institutions complicit in the genocide of Palestinians after intimidation campaigns. Read & share the full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...

being an academic is already a little embarrassing at times but seeing academics and others who are supposedly experts in like, fascism and genocide completely miss meeting the moment right now is so shameful

The @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social is suspending constitutional cooperation with Israel until further notice. Campaigning works. More action needs to follow but this is an important step 🍉 @archagainstaparth.bsky.social

Wow! Over £10K has been raised in less than two days to help buy the broch site. Keep it going, folks, this is magnificent support! 👍 #brochs www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/buy-the-br...

Love chronic illness. There'll just be days where I feel "i could vomit any second" kinda sick but life has to go on because doing nothing actually makes it worse... This is such a day 🫠

Archaeological field technicians are long overdue for a union and the time to organize is NOW! If you're a field tech in CRM and interested in organizing your workplace, let us know and we can help connect you with the resources to get started!

After decades of suppression from management, archaeological field techs are fighting back and have held 4 union elections in just 2 years! Who's next?🏺

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

The real story behind the lies. 👇 www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Hi all. As many of you know, my kid is trans and is probably the most awesome person alive. I hate to ask, since I know we are luckier than most, but medical care in the US is a disaster & I can't cover this on my own. Please share & help Lou become the version of himself he wants to be. ❤️

Look at that solidarity gets the goods

Is the Antiquity and Religion dpt at U.Ottawa advertising a talk by a Zionist who, a year ago, denied the reality of the genocide in Gaza? If so, why? web.archive.org/web/20240623...

First dig was commercial, so I think it was some 19th-century porcelain or a water bottle. First research dig must've been either iron age burnt clay or pottery. Pretty alright, more stoked about those than I would be about finding gold haha

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...

"Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction" cc @emekshavehheb.bsky.social www.972mag.com/israel-archa...