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Dr Helen Dawson

@helendawson.bsky.social
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Archaeologist and researcher in island cultures, because there's no better place to work than islands #wedoislands

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 30m
Call for Papers: Theorising Networks. Relational Frameworks in Archaeology and History www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
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Call for Papers: Theorising Networks. Relational Frameworks in Archaeology and History | Interdisciplinary Research Network for Ancient Near East | University of Helsinki
This workshop will be organized in Helsinki on March 18-19, 2027. The call for papers is now open.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Full solidarity with the former editors of the European Journal of Archaeology! “Lack of transparency and lack of listening have driven people away” Listen to the interview here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=FFGJ...
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Editors Resign in Protest over "Gaza Genocide" Row at European Association of Archaeologists
YouTube video by Archaeosoup
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Learn from the best!
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I find the proliferation of AI-generated images in academia really worrying and don't get me started on the monotonous drone of AI-generated posts! This is what artistic talent applied to science communication actually looks like: www.instagram.com/jmalumbresol...
This image, by professional illustrator Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, shows a cartoon with two island talking to each other. The shape of the islands resembles two dinosaurs facing each other. The one of the left looks old and eroded and sparsely vegetated, and says, referring to humans on a boat: "Yeah, they've been around for a while. Yours?". The one on the rights is still green and lush and pristine-looking. She says "Nah, barely a couple of hundred years". The point of the cartoon is to show the impact humans have on island ecosystems.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
SICRI's latest Island Conversation podcast with Antonino Salvador de Veyra, Director of the Leyte Samar Heritage Centre, University of the Philippines, hosting the International Small Island Cultures Conference in June! On ecopoetry, diaspora, and Typhoon Haiyan. www.sicri.net/copy-of-isla...
The graphic celebrates SICRI's 30 podcast milestone, highlighting its role bridging academia and practice, and emerging themes such as indigenous rights and feminist perspectives
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Chuffed that a philosopher reviewed our book and unlocked new perspectives! universa.padovauniversitypress.it/2025/2/17?fb...
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John Terrell, Mark Golitko, Helen Dawson, Marc Kissel, Modeling the Past. Archaeology, History, and Dynamic Networks | Universa. Recensioni di filosofia
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Iranian musician Hamidreza Afrideh plays at the ruins of his old music school. «I want the last sound from the school not to be that of missiles and war. The last sound should be music». www.youtube.com/shorts/D0A7K...
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Hamidreza Afrideh, a composer and kamancheh player, sits on the ruins of his music school
YouTube video by The Cover Story
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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...
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 12/02/2026
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
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The beadles of UCL: Frank Salkilld, protecting staff and students to the end
Frank was a well-known figure at UCL – students and staff in need would always cry “See Frank” and he would be there.
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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
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Sirio Canós-Donnay @siriocd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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.
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Yannis Hamilakis 🍉 @yannisham.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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...
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Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists - Σύλλογος Ελλήνων Αρχαιολόγων
Ανοιχτή επιστολή σχετικά με τις εξελίξεις στην European Association of Archaeologists Κατόπιν της ομόφωνης απόφασης των μελών του…
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
3rd International Congress "Under the Mediterranean", Palermo & Marsala, 21- 26 September 2026 underthemediterranean3.org
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Home - Under the Mediterranean III
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"Machine Learning Applications in Archaeological Practices: A Review" journal.caa-international.org/articles/10....
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Machine Learning Applications in Archaeological Practices: A Review | Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Big thanks to Peter Hargreaves for reporting on the Islands and Island Studies conference in the Jersey Evening Post! #wedoislands
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
www.the-berliner.com/politics/bon...
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Bones of Contention: Why are so many human remains locked up in Berlin museums? - The Berliner
Thousands of skulls and skeletons from victims of German colonialism are lying in Berlin museums. Why is it so hard to give them back?
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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?
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Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies @jicasjsy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Apply now!! for our 2025 Island Archaeology Field School - Jersey! w/ the fantastic @mattpope.bsky.social @helendawson.bsky.social and @duvalrv.bsky.social info@jicas.ac.je / www.jicas.ac.je #wedoislands
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Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies. Research and inquiry in the Channel Islands.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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 Hoa Hakananai’a statue from Easter Island, displayed in the British Museum in London. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA (source: The Guardian)
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The next DIG conference (Developing International Geoarchaeology) will take place in beautiful Tübingen in May! For more info, see: sites.google.com/view/dig2025...
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DIG2025
"Developing International Geoarchaeology," or simply "DIG," is a biennial conference series that began in 2005 and has since been hosted across the world. It aims to bring together a wide variety of i...
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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
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Conference: Islands and Audiovisual Media - Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057)
Shima (ISSN: 1834-6057) is a double blind, peer-refereed open-access journal published by Shima Publishing (Australia). Shima is SCOPUS indexed has been registered with the Directory of Open Access Jo...
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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Grinding Stone Deposits of the Linear Pottery Culture in Central Germany
In recent years, three deposits of grinding stones have been discovered in Central Germany, resembling a phenomenon known from the Paris Basin and Bel…
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
March is Women’s History Month: to learn about pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology, and geology, check out trowelblazers.com
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Trowelblazers - Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present.
Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Important new initiative to promote ethical development in the field of island archaeology: Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage cocah.net
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<a href="https://cocah.net/es-inicio/" data-type="page" data-id="485">Coalición para el Patrimonio Arqueológico del Caribe (CoCAH) </a> – Community
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Claudia Speciale @claudiaspecial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Back to the field, working of the wild macrofauna from #Grotta120 #Lampedusa #SILVA @iphes-cerca.bsky.social
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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
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NVIS: Islands and environmental change
Join us for the next quarterly meeting of SICRI&#39;s New Voices in Island Studies network. In this session we will focus on islands and environmental...
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Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies @jicasjsy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Join us online for our 2025 #Island #Archaeology #FieldSchool open event, Thursday, 27 February, 6pm. info@jicas.ac.je for Zoom invite #wedoislands
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Dr Maja Mise @majamise.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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....
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Naval power and textile technology: sail production in ancient Greece
Sails and textile technology played a key role in enabling mobility and thus shaping historical phenomena such as migration, trade, the acquisition and maintenance of imperial power in the ancient ...
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Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies @jicasjsy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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'. info@jicas.ac.je for Zoom invite. #wedoislands
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Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
#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.”
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Polar heritage sites are slipping into the sea – but can one island live forever online?
On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada’s Yukon coast, scientists are wielding virtual-reality cameras, 3D models and digital archives to protect the island’s history and culture before it disappears
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Jon Erlandson @viking1000.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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/...
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Rising seas endanger maritime heritage
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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
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Dr Maja Mise @majamise.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Joint us in Belgrade #EAA for island #archaeology
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
"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...
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Human activities and dispersal capacity: key drivers of dung beetle colonization in Mediterranean and Macaronesian islands
Abstract. This study examines how geography, environmental factors, and human history shape the composition of dung beetle assemblages on Mediterranean and
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Island archaeology can provide insights into space exploration, cool or what?! #wedoislands www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Island archaeology provides ecological and behavioral analogs for off-planet exploration and colonization
Human exploration and colonization of the solar system will involve the physical presence of humans, their materials, and accompanying translocated sp…
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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...
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Island Archaeology - Jersey — Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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!
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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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
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Jon Erlandson @viking1000.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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.
Original cover of JICA, showing an island arc from space, embedded in a deep blue sea.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Islands and Communities: Perspectives on Insularity, Connectivity, and Belonging, edited by Anastasia Christophilopoulou (open access) www.jstor.org/stable/jj.19... #wedoislands
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Fiona Hook @fionahook.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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...
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Late Pleistocene scaphopod beads from Boodie Cave and deep time traditions of personal ornamentation in northwest Australia
Tubular segments of Scaphopoda (tusk shell) were traditionally used by Aboriginal peoples in the manufacture of ornate bead necklaces across northwest Australia. Twenty-seven scaphopod shell beads ...
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
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...
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Island Conversations Helen Dawson | SICRI
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Tom Björklund @tombjorklundart.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Playing pretending Essay by April Nowell on childhood during the Ice Age: aeon.co/essays/what-...
Four children of various ages playing pretending. Perhaps imitating a religious ritual. One of them is wearing a wooden mask and an old bearskin cloak. Behind them there are woolly mammoth skull parts and tusks on the ground.
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"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...
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Islands in Global History | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Islands in Global History
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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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