New article from the AviArch Project (Ramazan Parmaksız, Beatrice Demarchi, Lisa Yeomans) on the archaeological avifauna of Turkey and the identification of its remains (bone and eggshell) using palaeoproteomics 🦆🦢🐦 @archaeobiomics.bsky.social #Aviarch
The EAA votes are out
The great majority of our archaeological community has voted in favour of the petitions raised by #concernedEAA. We asked for a democratic process, we asked for accountability, and for the need to acknowledge the horrific genocidal policy of Israel against Gaza.
In early medieval England, kinship was central to social organisation, determining your social position and possibilities for marriage #SpousesDay 👫
However, ancient DNA suggests social relationships were often prioritised over biological relatedness.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
🏺 #Archaeology
‘If anything, it’s a bit surprising that cows have taken so long to be added to the tool-using club. In 2009, octopuses were seen carrying around coconut shells. At least since Darwin, there has been much tedious wrangling over what counts as tool use.’
Liam Shaw:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...
Mural of antifascist red and black flags with the above text
Bologna Antifascista Sempre
📢Out in the NEW issue of @animalecology.bsky.social is our hugely #collaborative paper:
An integrative, peer-reviewed and open-source cooperative-breeding database (Co-BreeD)
#mammals #birds #cooperation #openscience #datasets #alloparents
Led by @benmocha.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1111/1365...
The almost full moon (waxing gibbous 94.5%) on Monday evening.
Congratulations Brenna!! 👏
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
Today in Italy, we also celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Liberation from Nazi-Fascism, which occurred on April 25th, 1945! 💪
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
Lead author Auke-Florian Hiemstra holds the oldest known caddisfly casing containing microplastic, dating to 1971. Photo: Liselotte Rambonnet.
A caddisfly casing with pieces of blue microplastic, dating 1986. Photo: Auke-Florian Hiemstra
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
