Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!
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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September 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!
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📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
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#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation Tactics Force Archaeological Association to Abandon Gaza Solidarity Last week the executive board of the European Association of Archaeologists took the decision, in light of the ongoi…
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September 2, 2025 at 5:24 PM
📢 CALL TO ACTION | EAA Leadership Overturns Democratic Vote Following Threats
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Intimidation tactics forced the EAA to abandon solidarity with Gaza.
Archaeologists:
Cancel membership | Speak up | Share
Full statement: blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/b...
#EAA2025 #Archaeology #Gaza
Reposted by Sirio Canós-Donnay
WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
WE HAVE PASSED 1000 SIGNATURES! We are extending the deadline, to give all who want to join this movement the chance to add their signature. Please do sign and share, archaeologists can and should take a stand and make a difference! #🏺 #eaa2025 #archaeology
📣 Would you like to know more about what archaeology can tell us about colonialism in southern Senegal? Then you're in luck, Thierry Balde and I have just published an article about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Kings, warriors and shifting towns: the struggle for power in the Upper Casamance (Senegal), 1830–1960
The history of colonialism in the Kolda (or Upper Casamance) Region of southern Senegal is a complex one that is still only partially understood. Like most places in Sub-Saharan Africa, its histori...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
📣 Would you like to know more about what archaeology can tell us about colonialism in southern Senegal? Then you're in luck, Thierry Balde and I have just published an article about it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If you're an academic working at an EU institution, please take a minute to sign this: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Stop European Funding for Israeli Institutions, Stop Complicity in Occupation, Apartheid and GenocideU
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June 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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The Kansala Project on NPR!
A vanished kingdom comes alive in the songs of griots and a new archaeological dig
The legendary west African kingdom of Kaabu has long been memorialized in the songs and stories of griots. That's inspired archaeologists to excavate the kingdom's capital.
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May 2, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The Kansala Project on NPR!
The Kansala Project featured in Voice of America!
Archaeologists use song to herald findings in Guinea-Bissau dig
Researchers say role of West Africa’s oral history should be taken more seriously within global academic record
www.voanews.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
The Kansala Project featured in Voice of America!
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2025 trae una nueva edición del #CIRA Curso de Introducción a la Realidad Africana #CIRA2025
Los y las mejores expertas para debatir juntas sobre
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👩🏫 60h · 20 sesiones · formato mixto
📆 21/01 - 05/03
🎁 ¡Regalazo para las navidades!
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Los y las mejores expertas para debatir juntas sobre
#política #economía #historia #RRII #cultura #Africa
👩🏫 60h · 20 sesiones · formato mixto
📆 21/01 - 05/03
🎁 ¡Regalazo para las navidades!
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December 3, 2024 at 8:05 PM
I'm so very happy to finally share the *sung* version of the Kansala 2024 excavation report, composed and performed by the amazing Nino Galissa. Subtitles on (unless you speak Mandinka)!
KANSALA KUMO: Kansala Archaeological Project sung report 2024
YouTube video by Sirio Canós Donnay
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October 9, 2024 at 5:26 PM
I'm so very happy to finally share the *sung* version of the Kansala 2024 excavation report, composed and performed by the amazing Nino Galissa. Subtitles on (unless you speak Mandinka)!
Have just been given an Amílcar Cabral pano de pinto and hat today in acknowledgement for our work in Kansala. Honoured beyond words. May as well retire now, cannot trump this!
September 23, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Have just been given an Amílcar Cabral pano de pinto and hat today in acknowledgement for our work in Kansala. Honoured beyond words. May as well retire now, cannot trump this!
Recording today the sung version of the Kansala excavation report with the amazing Nino Galissa, never thought an archaeological report could sound so beautiful!
September 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Recording today the sung version of the Kansala excavation report with the amazing Nino Galissa, never thought an archaeological report could sound so beautiful!
This is the wonderful team currently excavating Kansala, last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, currently in Guinea-Bissau. Archaeologists from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-B, and Spain, working together to document this amazing site. More news on finds shortly!
February 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
This is the wonderful team currently excavating Kansala, last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu, currently in Guinea-Bissau. Archaeologists from Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea-B, and Spain, working together to document this amazing site. More news on finds shortly!
Last month we spent two amazing weeks in Guinea-Bissau preparing the January excavations at Kansala, the last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu. Thanks to Thierry Balde, Eric Garcia Moral and Iaia Biai for making it possible and to INEP for hosting us. Can't wait for January!
December 22, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Last month we spent two amazing weeks in Guinea-Bissau preparing the January excavations at Kansala, the last capital of the Kingdom of Kaabu. Thanks to Thierry Balde, Eric Garcia Moral and Iaia Biai for making it possible and to INEP for hosting us. Can't wait for January!