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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It’s quite something seeing the (long) list of people who claim to work on social justice issues in archaeology who are prepared to go to EAA in Athens this year, sometimes sharing sessions with people involved in illegal excavations in the West Bank. bdsmovement.net/news/europea...

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European Association of Archaeologists Is Welcoming Scholars Knowingly Participating in a War Crime

The EAA is welcoming scholars from Hebrew University, which is partially built on land illegally expropriated from Palestinians in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem, to its annual meeting, Sept 2-6.

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 14/07/2026

Really delighted to say that our article critiquing the Cass Review from Archaeological, Historical, Mythological, and Heresiological perspectives has been published in the Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. You can freely read it below 👇 bulletin.appliedtransstudies.org/article/5/1-...

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I finally made a website to bring together all my projects, papers, talks, and more: serayelozer.com Making a website with zero coding knowledge was very challenging, not gonna lie 🥲 So now I'm hoping to make it worth the effort by writing regular blog posts.

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Dr. Sera Yelozer | Dr. Sera Yelozer

Prehistoric archaeologist specialising in personal ornaments, identity, craft, and material culture in prehistoric Anatolia and the wider Mediterranean.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/07/2026

The US/UK-led war in Iraq altered lives, monuments, museums and academia. In 'War Essays', Zainab Bahrani argues for an alternative account of Iraq's cultural heritage losses during and after the war. Reviewed in the latest #NewBookChronicle 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Cover of the book reviewed, depicting several burnt pieces of paper, on which some writing is barely legible.

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🧪 Fashion is at the heart of economic, social, and environmental issues, several countries are seeking to regulate ultra-fast fashion practices. Yet when did the first fashions emerge? shorturl.at/veUgl with F. d'Errico @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @univbordeaux.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

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The Origins of Fashion

This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep-time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily di....

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

And the second news: my project "PRE-CRAFTS: Body Adornment Technologies, Craft Specialisation, and Social Identities in Anatolian Prehistory" received funding from TÜBİTAK for a 2-year postdoctoral research at Bilkent University in Türkiye.

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I have two great news to share! First one below: This semester, I am teaching two new courses in the Core Program at Kadir Has University. I am super excited to share insights from archaeological material culture and its public reception with students from diverse backgrounds and departments.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Currently advertising: PhD project on Neolithic waste, based with Henny Piezonka. Project focuses on spatial analysis and the Neolithic. Deadline is 9th Feb. A chance to work with a cool range of sites from Serbia to Poland and you get to live in Berlin, so what's not to like! Link in next post.

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The article grew out of a sense of unease we had while reading debates over decolonisation in archaeology, especially about where the conversation is being shaped. I’m really glad to finally see it out in the world. 🧵 I highlight in this thread some of our core arguments.

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Small Things Big Stories @pre-identity.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📢 New article out in Public Archaeology: Invisible Archaeologies of Decolonization: Western Asian Archaeology, a View from Türkiye 🔓 Open access: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

🏺 Loved this fresco when I was a child with a Minoans fascination but it's not so much 'restored', as mostly imaginary. Look closely, only one figure has substantial original parts, and all the heads are made up! The real fragments however share precise costume elements with more complete frescos.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 23/01/2026

For #FrescoFriday here's a classic: 'Ladies in Blue' is a restored Minoan fresco from Knossos. The colour blue often appears on frescoes in garments worn by the elite, indicating blue was a status symbol in the Bronze Age Aegean and East Mediterranean. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Wall painting of three women wearing gold-and-blue dresses.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/01/2026

Melted marbles from Moria, the largest migrant camp in Europe, which burnt down in 2020. The material culture of border crossings is often intentionally erased. Preserving and studying it is essential to understanding this contemporary #archaeology 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Glass marbles in various colours, deformed and melted into clusters by fire.

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Small Things Big Stories @pre-identity.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

We make a strong start to 2026! 🎉 Our new chapter “Bodies and behaviours: archaeological material culture & the interpretation of identity at the Neolithic transition” critically revisits how identity has been approached in Neolithic SW Asia. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

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✅

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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/10/2025

NEW Finds from 13,200–10,700 cal BC Eşek Deresi Cave in the Central Taurus Mountains 🇹🇷 The material culture shares features from both Central Anatolia and the Levant, indicating Epipalaeolithic connections via the Taurus Mountains. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

a) Groundstone tools; b) in situ groundstones (ophiolite); c) marine shells; d) bone tools; e) stone pendant; f) stone object (possibly a figurine); g) incised stone (images from the Eşek Deresi Cave Photo Archive).

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

One other I’d add is that this means that senior people—and many already do—need to grasp the mettle and act like this is no longer business as usual.

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

'It is so cataclysmically bad' for #ECR now. So painfully true. It's abt historians, but has been like this in #archaeology since yrs. I'm one of the privileged ones, and has taken me 10 ys post-PhD to land a permanent position after changing countries eight times. frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A separate but equally important point: we *still* need to get rid of the unilineal evolutionary narratives! You can’t rope in later people on the other end of Europe in order to recreate a narrative that patrilineslity replaced matrilineality as some kind of universal process. 16/

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

There is a lot going on here but these results are wonderful (even if I find some of the archaeologists’ comments problematic). Here are a few notes to be followed up with a blog post at “Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives” 1/

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Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter

Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Matrilocal not matriarchal. I’m really unsure how comfortable I feel about returning to this type of a power/hierarchy discussion laden with a strict gender binary—esp when considering how far we finally managed to come along thanks to intersectional feminist perspectives.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 13/05/2025

Obsidian tools from c.8300–7900 BC Balıklı (modern Türkiye) 🏺 They are different to those nearby, suggesting despite cultural connections, the early sedentary community did not participate in wider obsidian-exchange networks in South-west Asia. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Obsidian artefacts from Balıklı: 1–3) blade and bladelet cores; 4–6) scrapers; 7–11) microburins; 12–14) Cafer points; 15 & 16) triangles; 17–19) obliquely truncated blades and bladelets.

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🧪1/2 Here’s a sample of words flagged by US agencies for restriction/avoidance, according to government documents as Trump seeks to purge the federal government of progressive initiatives. Archaeology has never been so disruptive! shorturl.at/dka55 #sciencenotsilence @standupforscience.bsky.social

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The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump

Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

We had a lovely time yesterday in Leicester talking about how we can create a decolonial, feminist perspective for Neolithic archaeology in Türkiye. Many thanks to the Wednesday Seminar Team for organising this! @emmabaysal.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🧪The Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe is available, featuring my chapter on Identity, Gender, and Social Dynamics. Happy to contribute to this comprehensive volume alongside valued colleagues @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social #Archaeology shorturl.at/VfnRU

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Don't Panic! How to fight fascism as an archaeologist. Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shoveling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people, it's time to lean into that! blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2024/11/13/d...

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Don’t Panic! How to Fight Fascism as an Archaeologist

Hey, archaeologists! As archaeologists, we tend to be the doing sort, the busybodies shovelling and sorting, keeping and caring, custodians of time, places, people. It’s time to lean into that, to …

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Féaron Cassidy, PhD @fearoncassidy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Individual people making the decision to leave academia because it’s not feasible with their financial/caring responsibilities happens every day, and it doesn’t select for the most excellent people to stay in academia & become profs, it selects for those that can socially and financially afford it🧪

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Féaron Cassidy, PhD @fearoncassidy.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I’ve been saying for a long time that encouraging more girls/women(/underrepresented groups) into academia does not solve inequality @ higher ranks, which is due to the leaky pipeline ie job insecurity, high mobility onus, unconscious bias and overall lack of supports. Good but sad to see the data.

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Small Things Big Stories @pre-identity.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

As the year comes to an end, here are some highlights from the year. We’ve been all over Anatolia and beyond, looking at personal ornaments & sharing results from the project. Read our new blog post - 2024 recap www.smallthingsbigstories.com/post/small-t... Happy new year everyone! 🎄

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Small things big stories: 2024 recap

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Nicole Boivin @nicoleboivin.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Great piece by SE Asian archaeologists challenging us to think beyond the Three Age system and unlinear Eurocentric models of the past: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

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It’s Time to Replace “Prehistory” With “Deep History”

Archaeologists in Southeast Asia are pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives.

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Mine is like this with short and longer-term moves bw Istanbul-Groningen-back to Ist-Edinburgh-Nice-back to Ist-Bordeaux-and now again back to Ist. Yellow dots: mostly fieldwork locations where I practically moved to for 1-2 months every summer… Not messier but def very tired already at this point 🫠

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Dr Izzy Wisher @izzywisher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

New paper out! Children actively made hand-stencils and flutings in the Upper Palaeolithic, but can we identify children's cave art without anatomical measurements? We present a new framework using universal features of young children's drawings 🏺 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

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Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic: Hunter Gatherer Research: Vol 0, No 0

Children’s agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through ‘an archaeology of childhood’, there remains a fundamenta...

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Luc Doyon @lucdoyon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Looking for a postdoc in use-wear analysis of Pleistocene expedient osseous tools? Check out this offer from the #ERCStG ExOsTech project at #universitébordeaux euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/296676

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Post-doctoral researcher on Western European Expedient Osseous Technology

The Unité Mixte de Recherche 5199 PACEA of the CNRS, Univ.

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

FELLOWSHIPS for Scholars at Risk Applications until 20.01.2025 at 23:59 (CET). #SAFE offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral & postdoctoral researchers of non-EU nationality. Read the call carefully, contact potential supervisor in your academic field. saferesearchers.eu

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SAFE - Supporting  At-risk researchers  with Fellowships in Europe

As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🏺 The first remains of Tabun 1 were recognised by Yusra, a Palestinian woman who had already dug for years with Garrod. Here is Yusra in 1932 with other young women fieldworkers named as Rashidi and Amui Haj, and in 1934 with Dorothy Garrod.

Black and white photograph in Pitt Rivers museum Garrod archive, taken 1932. Image shows three young Palestinian women wearing traditional dress including skirts, bodices, blouses and a cardigan, with head coverings. They are outside a masonry building, one sitting by some cans and a makeshift table with metal pots, and potentially a sieve. Two others stand up near the door of the building. All three look relaxed, two have small smiles. In the background are stony flat fields and scattered trees.

Black and white photo from Pitt Rivers museum Garrod archive. Image taken in 1934. Shows two women sitting together in a shaded area next to a plastered wall and wall woven of plant material; branches or plants also form the roof and are filtering the sun. The older European woman on the right is sitting in a wooden chair, wearing a tailored dress with her black hair in a bun. She is looking at the young child the other woman is holding on her lap, and reaching a hand toward him. The younger Palestinian woman in the left is wearing layered patterned clothing including trousers or a skirt, a long blouse or embroidered shirt and a head covering. She is also looking at the child she holds while her left hand directs their attention to the European woman on her left, and her hand crosses in front of the European woman's. The child wears pale clothing with embroidery and a white hat, they look 18 months to 2 years old.

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 29/11/2024

Sharing is Caring: Central Europe’s First Farmers Lived in Equality 👨‍🌾 The results of a new study in Nature Human Behaviour, reveal that the culture responsible for the expansion of agriculture in Central Europe 8,000 years ago showed no signs of population stratification. ⤵ 🏺 #Anthropology

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Sharing is Caring: Central Europe’s First Farmers Lived in Equality

Genetic study also reveals long-distance travelling in Neolithic societies

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 29/11/2024

Please consider donating to and circulating Areej’s campaign! ⬇️

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Small Things Big Stories @pre-identity.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

'Small Things, Big Stories' project is featured in the Heritage Türkiye podcast of @thebiaankara.bsky.social 📢 Watch @emmabaysal.bsky.social talking about the project and the fascinating stories personal ornaments can tell about the prehistory of identities 🐚 youtu.be/fvgJPUJn37A?...

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Small Things, Big Stories with Emma Baysal

YouTube video by British Institute At Ankara

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Scott D. Haddow @sdhaddow.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

A thoughtful open-access article on the role of archaeology and memorialization amidst Israel's current war on Gaza 🏺https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/archaeological-dialogues/article/baptist-hospital-in-gaza-current-ruins-for-future-archaeologists/C775E3465587591B2B60C139E8AD90B6

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The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists? | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

The Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Current ruins for future archaeologists?

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sera yelozer @serayelozer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

just a casual, friendly reminder 👇

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Martin Renger @martinrenger.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I took the liberty of putting together one of these starter packs 👇. It's really just a very first, small collection and I would be delighted if you could help to fill it. 🏺 #Archaeology #Theory #TheoreticalArchaeology go.bsky.app/GURdkWn

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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.com · 26/11/2024

I've been writing about memes in archaeology all day, which reminded me of this one that I came up with in a flash of inspiration a few months ago. Thought I'd share it here for those that didn't see it on the other place...

A meme using Micheal from Netflix's 'The Good Place'. In the top panel he is saying "You're a processualist" and on the bottom it says "It's an archaeology insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now"

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I’m burning the wood of a fire-surround my granddad had made to pretty up their NE pit house in the late 1940s. Curated for 75 years, across 4 houses, I’m burning it in N Wales. It’s giving excellent heat (keeping his unmet granddaughter warm). Objects and their stories travel generations too.

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Solange Rigaud @solangerigaud.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

🧪 This Monday, my colleague S. Yelozer will present our findings on how Pre-Pottery Neolithic societies at Aşıklı, Turkey, expressed and navigated their individual and cultural identities @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social @pacea.bsky.social

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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 24/11/2024

"Children had a critical and defining (but often underappreciated) influence on how human culture developed and continues to develop. As the ones carrying cumulative culture forward into the next generation, they are the primary drivers of human cultural evolution."

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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I took the liberty to create another niche archaeologist starte pack: go.bsky.app/CSr9gQh

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