I'm watching Spain vs Argentina on German television in a guest room above an Italian restaurant in a former Russian military base outside Berlin. ⚽
Scott D. Haddow
@sdhaddow.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.
Piazza San Carlo, Torino. Beautiful light this morning on the walk to work. The streets are still quiet and the temperature is still cool (but not for long 🌡️).
Archaeological research produces an enormous amount of digital data (e.g. photos, 3D models, GIS maps, databases, etc.), which require an enormous amount of storage space. How do we manage such archives & ensure they remain accessible in the future? 🏺 www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...
How the Digital Curation Crisis is endangering archaeology « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
Archaeology and cultural heritage work have fully entered the digital age. Today, researchers rely on tools like 3D scanners, a variety of GIS software, and Lidar equipped drones to document the past ...
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"The past is both a tool and a target in modern warfare, prompting us to rethink how heritage is increasingly exploited as an instrument of power, coercion, and security." 🏺 "Ruin Warfare: How and Why We Weaponize the Past" by Lynn Meskell www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Ruin Warfare: How and Why We Weaponize the Past
This review explores how and why we weaponize the past, underscoring how all parties to a conflict might manipulate antiquity, its materialities, and its meanings. The decision to destroy or preserve ...
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Ancient DNA in Siberia provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak - 5,500 years ago 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak
Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years ago
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New review article on the need to move beyond sex & gender binaries in the study & teaching of human skeletal biology (with a particular emphasis on forensic anthropology). www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Sex and Gender in Human Skeletal Biology: Slow Movement Beyond the Binary
Despite advancing discussions to move beyond sex and gender binaries in human skeletal biology, including in forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, such binaries largely persist in praxis and pedag...
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New article by Prof. Lisa-Marie Shillito on the bioethics of ancient plaque 🦷 and poop 💩: "More than bones: rethinking ethics and epistemologies of bodily exuviae in archaeology" 🏺https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2026.2674935
More than bones: rethinking ethics and epistemologies of bodily exuviae in archaeology
This paper critically examines the ethical and epistemological challenges surrounding the treatment of non-skeletal human remains, specifically dental calculus and coprolites, in archaeological res...
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Phytolith evidence for wetland-based mixed subsistence at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic megasite of Beisamoun, Israel 🏺 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Ecological flexibility: phytolith evidence for wetland-based mixed subsistence at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic megasite of Beisamoun, Israel - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany - This study presents new phytolith evidence from 18 sediment samples at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Beisamoun in the Hula Valley, northern Israel,...
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#TeamNun was taken on a tour of the early medieval cemetery site of Llancadle South today by project director Dr. Andy Seaman of Cardiff University. 🏺
Heading to Cardiff today to look at a skeletal assemblage from a very interesting new archaeological site. #TeamNun www.bbc.com/news/article... 🏺
Mystery of Welsh medieval cemetery deepens
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
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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...
Frontiers | Human mobility amid emerging sedentism in the Central Zagros: laser ablation strontium isotope analysis at Early Neolithic Bestansur, Iraqi Kurdistan
The Neolithic of Southwest Asia (c. 10,000–5,200 BCE) is associated with increasing residential stability alongside resource domestication processes. Yet, th...
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"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...
Recent Discoveries at Cheops’ Red Sea Port in Wadi al-Jarf
Hybrid lecture by Prof. Pierre Tallet | Director of the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao)
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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...
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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...
Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
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Another aspect of the dystopian future we can look forward to.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 11mo agoA.I. is changing classrooms. We spoke to the co-founder of Alpha Schools about how her private K-12 schools are using A.I. to generate personalized lesson plans and enabling teachers to spend their time motivating rather than teaching students. nyti.ms/3JHIZub
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. 🏺
The Black Trowel Collective@blacktrowel.bsky.social · 11mo agoBTC 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...
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.
‘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...
‘Beyond anything imaginable’: dozens killed at busy Gaza seafront cafe
Witnesses describe explosion, flames and smoke plumes as airstrike transforms peaceful scene at al-Baqa into a horror
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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...
Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective
This volume brings together perspectives from different parts of the world that showcase the wide variety of practices, institutions, and ideologies that allowed for shared identities and coordinated ...
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"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.
Mike Masnick@masnick.com · last yr.Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.
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🙂🌼
“A Network of Mutualities of Being”: Socio-material Archaeological Networks and Biological Ties at Çatalhöyük - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Recent advances in archaeogenomics have granted access to previously unavailable biological information with the potential to further our understanding of past social dynamics at a range of scales. Ho...
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