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Free-access #archaeology articles from #Cambridge for #SAA2025Denver out now! 📚➡️ cup.org/4jlFIh5 @antiquityj.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @saa-aap.bsky.social

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EAA members Laura Coltofean, Alexandra Dolea, Maria Mina and Daniela Hofmann are organizing the workshop #261 - "There is life outside the box: Alternative career paths in archaeology" for #EAA2025. 1/

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Our publisher @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social have put together a collection of brilliant new scholarship from EJA (@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social) as a collection for the SAA conference next week - please explore and enjoy!

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* UPDATE on #EAA2025 * Following the move to an online-only format, registration fees for #EAA2025 have been updated: Full (A country): € 100,00 Student / Retired (A country): € 80,00 Full (B country): € 80,00 Student / Retired (B country): € 60,00 EAA membership fees remain unchanged. 1/

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🏺 * IMPORTANT INFORMATION * With thanks to the colleague who has alerted me for the lack of Alt text in this important message, please be aware of the change in format for the annual meeting #EAA2025. Information attached, and in your emails.

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* IMPORTANT INFORMATION * To all members of the EAA and friends, please be aware of important information regarding our next annual meeting #EAA2025. An email has also been sent to members, but you can find details attached.

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🏺 In 2021 a metal detectorist made the find of a lifetime in Melsonby, Yorkshire (#UK). Luckily, he contacted experts at the University of Durham who, in collaboration with the British Museum and Historic England, excavated what is now known as The Melsonby Hoard. 1/

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The Paper of the Month from European Journal of Archaeology is 'Isotopic Evidence of Diet and Mobility From the Megalithic Burials of the Rego da Murta Dolmens (Portugal)' by Anna J. Waterman et al., available #openaccess! 📚 https://cup.org/4hpYDpb @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social #PaperOfTheMonth

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🏺 A Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age settlement was excavated in the Hauts-de-France region ahead of construction of a Business Park in Onnaing, north of #France, by INRAP. 1/

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🏺 Last year a 200 yo message in a bottle was found in an excavation in #France. This time, a time capsule was found during the re-excavation of a #Viking burial mound in #Norway. The note was written by Anders Lorange in 1874 and included his business card!

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🏺 A team from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) found remains of at least 5 mammoths, stone tools and evidence of ivory processing in an excavation at Langmannersdorf an der Perschling, Lower #Austria, dating back to 25,000 years ago. #Archaeology #Palaeolithic #Austria

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🏺 Archaeology often gives us glimpses of the lives of people of high status in the past. But what about all the others? A recent study revealed the harsh conditions that miners faced during the Ptolemaic period in #Egypt, during the 3rd century BCE. 1/

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🏺 Archaeologists of the Univ of Warsaw found 5 clay figurines on the top of a pyramid in San Isidro, El Salvador, buried c.400 BCE. The figurines have holes on the top of their heads and necks allowing them to turn them side to side. Researchers suggested they are puppets or marionettelike figures

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🏺 Archaeologists from Trnava University found a 2nd century CE subterranean Roman conduit during excavations at Rusovce Manor House, near Bratislava, #Slovakia #Archaeology #Excavation #Roman

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* ANNOUNCEMENT * If you are an EAA member you will have received an email today with an update on #EAA2025. The EAA would like to reassure its members that the EAA Executive Board and the Belgrade Organising committee are monitoring the peaceful anti-corruption demonstrations... 1/

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🏺A workshop will take place at the University of Oxford, #UK, gathering scholars working on #Ukrainian #Archaeology and #CulturalHeritage, to develop a framework to study and preserve Ukrainian heritage effectively, in face of current cultural, political and military turbulence. Details attached

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* CONTENT WARNING: HUMAN REMAINS* 🏺 Archaeologists at Atapuerca (#Spain) found what is probably the earliest face known in Europe. A paper published in Nature describes the find of the midface of a hominin fossil dated to c. 1.4 million and 1.1. million years ago. (Image: Huguet et al. 2025)

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Family fun! Learn about St. Patrick's handbell. Create and decorate your own handbell inspired by St. Patrick's. Join us at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street on Saturday, March 15th from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Drop-in workshop, no registration needed. www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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* CONTENT WARNING: HUMAN REMAINS * The graves of c. 600 whalers buried in #Svalbard, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, are at risk due to climate change and rising temperatures, which are accelerating deterioration and washing remains into the sea.

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⏳ It's not too late! Apply to be Deputy Editor for the European Journal of Archaeology by 31 March: 🔗 cup.org/3FlqNUQ @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social

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* WARNING CONTENT: HUMAN REMAINS * 🏺 In 1998 the burial of a child was found in a shelter in Lagar Velho (#Portugal). A decade before the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, its skeleton was thought to be evidence for a Neanderthal/Sapiens hybrid.. Image: Nuno Farinha / Museu de Leiria 1/

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Dig into this free-access collection of #research articles from #Cambridge, spotlighting academic journals publishing on topics in #archaeology and #areastudies from across the Asian continent: 🌏 cup.org/4ipKkSn

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A bog body found in #Ireland, previously thought to be a male, has actually been confirmed to be female. Evidence shows her throat was slit and she was decapitated before being thrown into the bog sometime between the 4th and 1st century BCE. Researchers believe she may have been a human sacrifice.

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🏺 Researchers in #Poland have discovered that some artefacts excavated in the Early Iron Age cemetery near Częstochowa contain meteoritic iron mixed with smelted iron. https://buff.ly/3Xbi0uI Scientific article here: https://buff.ly/4bcOYka

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🏺In 2014 a metal detectorist found the first pieces of what became known as the "Galloway Hoard", quickly alerting the local archaeologist who carefully excavated the site, preserving the artefacts. 1/3

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Caught in a trap? This deer can’t walk out… Celebrating the re-mounting, conservation, and scanning of the beautiful Banagher Cross shaft. Soon, it will be on display at the Words on the Wave exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. #NMI2025 #NMIBlog www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

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Asta Mønsted's research integrates Indigenous knowledge and narratives with scholarly theories & methods. In this interview she highlights the importance of Indigenous Archaeology in the understanding of Greenland's Deep Past, discussing oral history, folklore, language, history & climate change. 🏺

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Archaeologists in #Kazakhstan unearthed more than 1000 artefacts from burial mounds (known as kurgans) in the Atyrau region, including jewelry, weapons and ceramics. The finds date to the 5th century BCE. Experts believe these may be the burials of high-status individuals or Sarmatian royalty. 🏺

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Would you like to attend EAA annual meeting in Belgrade #EAA2025 and help out with the running of the event? You can apply to be a volunteer with us! Find out more details here and fill out the form by the 28th of February

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🏺 Many issues have been flagged with AI, including its environmental footprint. What about the potential impact of AI for archaeology ? Colleen Morgan alerts that it "remains imperative that archaeologists engage with and critique all visualisations." #Archaeology

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