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Scott D. Haddow

@sdhaddow.bsky.social
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Bioarchaeologist with a focus on SW Asia, Ancient Egypt and Sudan. Funerary practices, taphonomy, dental anthropology. Music and photography nerd.

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Caroline Partiot @carolinepartiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am delighted to publish in the #BMSAP a review of the book edited in 2026 by Siân E. Halcrow, Sabrina C. Agarwal, Carlina de la Cova, Rebecca Gowland, Gwen Robbins Schug "Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice - Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures" journals.openedition.org/bmsap/18345
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Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice– Equitable and Sustaina...
"Bioarchaeology, Activism and Social Justice – Equitable and Sustainable Global Futures" est paru en 2026 aux éditions Springer. Il est édité par Siân E. Halcrow (University of Otago et Durham Univ...
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And this paper last year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The theory has been floating around for a few years now, but I guess it hasn't sufficiently trickled down to the public yet. This paper came out in 2022: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.15...
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Client Challenge
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was asked, alongside others, to comment on the findings in this piece for Science News www.science.org/content/arti...
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Bones link 10,000-year-old temple complex to a village, not a ‘skull cult’
Landslides, not rituals, may have scattered skulls and bones at Turkey’s famed Göbekli Tepe site
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper on the first two intact human burials found at Göbekli Tepe. These burials have been known about for some time; information on them has been presented at conferences and lectures over the last several years, but it's nice to finally see them in print 🏺 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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First burials give insights into mortuary rites at Göbeklitepe, Early Neolithic Türkiye
Since the beginning of excavations at Göbeklitepe, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site in southeastern Türkiye, fragmented human bones have been recovered from the fill of the special (monumental) buil...
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting is about to start. The programme shows a horrendous disregard not only for Palestinian people and their heritage, and EAA members, but even for their own ethical codes and principles. everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/08/21/a...
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Archaeology & Occupation: A Double Standard at EAA 2026
by Archaeologists Against Apartheid The European Association of Archaeologists’ annual conference will take place between 26–29 August 2026 in Athens. Despite our call for boycott, as well as…
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Some snapshots from our summer vacation in Greece: the Church of Saint Dimitrios Loumbardiaris in Athens. During restoration work in the 1950s, architect Dimitris Pikionis used ancient marble, tile & ceramic fragments from nearby archaeological sites to decorate the external walls.🏺
External walls of the Church of Saint Dimitrios Loumbardiaris in Athens decorated with ancient marble, tile & ceramic fragments from nearby archaeological sites.Detail of an external wall of the Church of Saint Dimitrios Loumbardiaris decorated with marble fragments, pottery, and a carving of a lion or leopard.External wall of the Church of Saint Dimitrios Loumbardiaris in Athens decorated with ancient marble, tile & ceramic fragments from nearby archaeological sites. This image also shows a bench, an entranceway, and a modern air conditioning unit beside it.Detail of an external wall of the Church of Saint Dimitrios Loumbardiaris decorated with marble fragments, amphorae handles, and a carving of a fish.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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. ⚽
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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 🌡️).
Photo of Piazza San Carlo with 1838 Equestrian monument of Emmanuel Philibert in the centre of the square.  The twin Baroque churches of Santa Cristina and San Carlo Borromeo in the background.Photo of the western portico of Piazza San Carlo, Torino.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"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...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Link to the original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Lethal plague outbreaks in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago - Nature
Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far&...
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ancient DNA in Siberia provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak - 5,500 years ago 🏺 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Agreed on the issue of race, but I don't think the authors are attempting to do that here. Also,"replacement" doesn't always imply conflict or violence. It can also occur as a result of differential fertility rates, or assimilation and intermarriage.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Phytolith evidence for wetland-based mixed subsistence at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic megasite of Beisamoun, Israel 🏺 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#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. 🏺
Cardiff University archaeologist Dr. Andy Seaman leads AHRC-funded "Word of Mouth" project members Nora Farber, Alison Beach, Anita Radini and Simon Thomas on a tour of the Welsh archaeological site of Llancadle South.  Standing in a previously excavated grave cut, archaeologist Dr. Andy Seaman shows "Word of Mouth" project members (from left) Nora Farber, Simon Thomas, Anita Radini and Alison Beach a plan of the early medieval cemetery at Llancadle South.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Heading to Cardiff today to look at a skeletal assemblage from a very interesting new archaeological site. #TeamNun www.bbc.com/news/article... 🏺
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Mystery of Welsh medieval cemetery deepens
Skeletons and artefacts unearthed from the site near Cardiff Airport are baffling archaeologists.
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Horus the Elder 𓅃𓅨𓂋 ♿ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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!
Not Just an Other: Archaeologies of Disability

Kyle L. Jordan

Lecture Theatre A, Student Services Centre, New Museums Site

5.15pm, May 5, 2026

Reception, The Atrium, SSC, 6.30pm

Abstract: Modern models and experiences of disability are typically defined by ‘otherness’ in relation to an institutional or social-cultural idea of ‘normalcy’. When we investigate the ancient past, however, these definitions do not neatly apply. This presents both challenges and opportunities to not only change our understanding of the 
past but radically reassess the knowledge and practice of our present, and dream of better futures.

This plenary lecture will explore what the disciplines of archaeology and disability studies have to offer each other – and together, the broader social sciences – while also sharing the lived experience of putting it all into practice. 

Bio: Kyle Lewis Jordan is an independent early career researcher and freelance heritage professional who specialises in the study of disability in antiquity, with a focus on Egypt and the Middle East. 

Born with cerebral palsy, Kyle studied at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology before 
becoming a curator, curating exhibitions at both the Ashmolean Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, and more 
recently the Verulamium Museum in St 
Albans. He is also a Research Associate of the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange.
 
TO RESERVE A RECEPTION PLACE, PLEASE EMAIL l m h 37 at cam dot ac dot uk
and m p 968 at cam dot ac dot uk
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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...
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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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David Mihalyfy @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"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...
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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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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
You could say the same about most of the social sciences and humanities these days. Everyone's trying to get a piece of the digital pie. And "digital humanities"-type research projects, e.g. AI, virtual reality, big data, etc., require much less capital than more 'science-y' research projects.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
81 years ago today, Italy was liberated from fascism. #bellaciao #25aprile
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The exhibition is sponsored by Fondazione Merz, The Egyptian Museum (Turin) and the Museum of Art and History (Geneva). www.fondazionemerz.org/en/gaza-the-...
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GAZA, the future has an ancient heart | Fondazione Merz
Fondazione Merz, Museo Egizio di Torino and MAH - Musée d’art et d’histoire of Geneva present GAZA, the future has an ancient heart. Materials and memories of the Mediterranean, a major international ...
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Much of the cultural heritage of Gaza has been heavily damaged/destroyed by Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. The material in this exhibition was spared a similar fate because it was sent abroad for display in 2006 & never returned due to Israel's 2007 Gaza blockade. www.arabnews.jp/en/middle-ea...
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Gaza’s historic treasures saved by ‘irony of history’
JERUSALEM: Gaza’s ancient Greek site of Anthedon has been bombed, its “Napoleon’s Palace” destroyed and the on・・・
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I particularly like this series of manipulated images from the famous discovery of the Phoenician necropolis at Sidon, Lebanon in 1887. The artist, Akram Zataari, has transformed the archaeological discoveries into luminescent, ghost-like apparitions.
Image from the discovery of the Phoenician necropolis at Sidon, Lebanon in 1887 showing locals standing beside an enormous anthropomorphic sarcophagus.Image from the discovery of the Phoenician necropolis at Sidon, Lebanon in 1887 showing locals standing beside the lid of a sarcophagus.Image from the discovery of the Phoenician necropolis at Sidon, Lebanon in 1887 showing the removal of a large sarcophagus from the tomb.Exhibition label text from the series of manipulated images from Sidon:

An Extraordinary Event, 2018
8 inkjet prints
44,6 x 357 x 3,5 cm
edition of 7 + 2 AP
© Akram Zaatari
Courtesy of the artist and Thomas Dane Gallery, Sfeir-Semler Gallery

The work refers to the discovery, in 1887, by Osman Hamdi Bey of seventeen sarcophagi from the Sidon necropolis at Ayaa. At the time, they were displayed in a nearby citrus grove belonging to Chibli Abela. The citrus grove thus became a temporary open-air museum housing archaeological finds before they were transported by sea to Constantinople. Hamdi Bey took photographs at the time, which became part of Sultan Abdulhamid's album collection, bearing witness to certain aspects of modern life in the empire, including archaeology. Zaatari has selected eight of these, in which labourers, peasants and members of the Vilayet authorities also appear. Thus, An Extraordinary Event plays with two presences: on the one hand, there are the artefacts, unearthed after two thousand years in the dark and now shining so brightly as to be almost invisible; on the other hand, there are the people, the citrus trees, the earth and everything surrounding the archaeological objects.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Collection of architectural elements, including pieces dating to the Islamic period, and a Byzantine column re-purposed as a tombstone for a British soldier killed in Gaza during World War I (see ALT text for additional details).
"Byzantine marble column from Bayt Lahiya, recycled by the British as a fallen officer's grave marker after the third and final Gaza battle against the Ottoman forces in August 1917. The name chiseled onto the column was Lieutenant Fas Lanslow, who was from the Indian subcontinent. The fact that he was a Bengal, a member of the Bengal Lancers, makes it particularly fitting as the closing piece of the exhibition, as it evokes the whole issue of colonialism and the policies that laid the ground for so many of the disasters that continue to plague the Middle East. After the war, the bodies of those who fought in the British forces were unearthed and brought back to a central cemetery belonging to the British Commission, so the old markers were removed, which is how the column became free again."

https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/41977Islamic stone architectural element with geometric designs.Islamic stone architectural element with geometric designs.Islamic stone architectural element with geometric designs.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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".🏺
Map of the Eastern Mediterranean showing Gaza trade connections with Egypt, Arabia, Mesopotamia, Greece and Italy. Collection of amphorae and other ceramic vessels from various archaeological sites in Gaza.Anthropomorphic terracotta lid of an Egyptian slipper coffin dating to the New Kingdom.collection of glass, ceramic and stone vessels from Gaza.
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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📣 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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Jaime Almansa @jaimealmansa.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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...
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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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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I've just sent my letter to the board. Let's hope they respond.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Another aspect of the dystopian future we can look forward to.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Unintentional collage art on these public noticeboards in Turin.
Photograph of two public noticeboards in Turin showing the accumulated remnants of posters and other public notifications.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Are you disputing that Maya Wind is a scholar and has written extensively on this subject? Interesting.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
As scholar Maya Wind has documented, all Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the military occupation of Palestine, including HUJI, which hosts the Havatzalot training program for IDF officers. jewishcurrents.org/the-complici...
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The Complicity of Israeli Academia
Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Since 1967, the university has expanded its campus beyond the armistice line and into occupied East Jerusalem. uniavisen.dk/en/drop-the-...
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Drop the collab with Hebrew University immediately
The Ministry of Higher Education says you should not to collaborate with such institutions. Researchers ask in new featured comment: What more do you need, UCPH?
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
And it's deeply ironic that the EAA criticizes the "collective punishment" of scholars affiliated with Israeli institutions (who were not prevented from presenting at the conference), while the Israeli military has been collectively punishing the people of Gaza without mercy for nearly two years.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The board "deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues", but (apart from a wishy-washy, both-sides statement issued in 2024) no mention of the very real and ongoing harm committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and their cultural heritage.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Really pathetic statement on their part as well. What information could they possibly be lacking? They certainly seem to have missed yesterday's announcement by the International Association of Genocide Scholars that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide”.
Screenshot of today's statement by the EAA executive board from the conference website:

"At its Belgrade meeting on 1 September, the majority of the Executive Board decided to reverse its earlier decision to remove the affiliations of delegates from Israel. On further reflection, the Board recognised this action had been rushed and misjudged due to lack of sufficient information, and time pressure. We deeply regret any harm to our affected colleagues, with whom we will shortly be in touch.

Our prime objective is to move forward on all EAA matters in a way that better represents the spirit and ethos of the EAA as enshrined in its Statutes: to eliminate political actions, which includes collective punishment. The Board seeks to develop a long-term strategy, a plan that focuses on how to be productive within the remit of the EAA, and this process needs some time. The Membership will have the opportunity to comment and endorse it in due course."
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Steph Halmhofer @cultarchaeo.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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. 🏺
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Last photo of Copenhagen before heading to the airport.
Early morning photograph of Copenhagen taken from the lakes looking towards the Dronning Louise's bridge.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Last day in Copenhagen. After six years, it's time to start a new adventure in Torino.
Photo of an apartment filled with boxes and disassembled furniture. Photo of a building exterior with a furniture lift taking our belongings down from the 5th floor balcony.Photo of a building exterior with a furniture lift taking our belongings down from the 5th floor balcony.Photo of an empty apartment after the movers have completed their work.
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUD5...
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Galaxie 500 - Fourth of July (Official Video) HD
YouTube video by Sam
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
‘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...
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‘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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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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...
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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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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
"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!
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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Congratulations Tom!
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