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Dr Helen Dawson

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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 · Dec 4

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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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Jun 16

Big thanks to Peter Hargreaves for reporting on the Islands and Island Studies conference in the Jersey Evening Post! #wedoislands

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · May 27

www.the-berliner.com/politics/bon...

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 · Apr 29

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 · Mar 22

Apply now!! for our 2025 Island Archaeology Field School - Jersey! w/ the fantastic @mattpope.bsky.social @helendawson.bsky.social and @duvalrv.bsky.social

[email protected] / www.jicas.ac.je

#wedoislands

Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies

Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies. Research and inquiry in the Channel Islands.

www.jicas.ac.je

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 20

Yay indeed! Your first book was key for my PhD research on the archaeology of island colonisation and abandonment!

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 13

exactly my thoughts, archaeologists should not just dig and then leave, without thinking of the consequences

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 13

It sounds like a great example of valorising local traditional knowledge, is there a paper?

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 13

Great example... I am getting hungry!

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 13

"scarpetta" in Italian, is there a Maltese word for the mopping up?

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 12

I see you’re using CatGPT ;-)

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 12

I think this is a good example of inclusion: maa.cam.ac.uk/news/decolon...

Decolonising the Archive: Cambridge Anthropology and Torres Strait Island Kastom | Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Dr Anita Herle, Senior Curator (Anthropology) A recent collaborative project to publish Recording Kastom: Alfred Haddon’s Journals from the Torres Strait and New Guinea, 1888 and 1898, highlights the ...

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thanks! How do you envisage that inclusion in practical terms? I think it could also mean considering the effects of research on local communities (e.g. will uncovering an archaeological site impact tourism and is that good/bad for the locals?) and developing research questions together.

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 12

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 · Mar 12

The next DIG conference (Developing International Geoarchaeology) will take place in beautiful Tübingen in May! For more info, see: sites.google.com/view/dig2025...

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 · Mar 11

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

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...

shimajournal.org

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 11

game tokens maybe?

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 10

Not safe full stop, regardless of skin colout, I'd say. There was another case in the news recently: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Like a horror movie’: Ice detaining German tourist in California indefinitely

Jessica Brösche has spent more than a month in detention center after being denied entry at San Diego from Mexico

www.theguardian.com

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Mar 4

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...

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 · Mar 3

March is Women’s History Month: to learn about pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology, and geology, check out trowelblazers.com

Trowelblazers - Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present.

Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology and geology — past & present.

trowelblazers.com

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Feb 24

Important new initiative to promote ethical development in the field of island archaeology: Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage cocah.net

<a href="https://cocah.net/es-inicio/" data-type="page" data-id="485">Coalición para el Patrimonio Arqueológico del Caribe (CoCAH) </a> – Community

cocah.net

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Claudia Speciale @claudiaspecial.bsky.social · Feb 24

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 · Feb 24

who needs ChatGPT when you have... CatGPT!

Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · Feb 24

NVIS: Islands and environmental change

Join us for the next quarterly meeting of SICRI'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 · Feb 21

Join us online for our 2025 #Island #Archaeology #FieldSchool open event, Thursday, 27 February, 6pm.

[email protected] for Zoom invite

#wedoislands

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Dr Maja Mise @majamise.bsky.social · Feb 20

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....

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 ...

www.tandfonline.com

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