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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

@ansoc-erc.bsky.social

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ANSOC is creating a new vision of the Bronze Age with animals as active participants in past social worlds
https://ansoc.net
Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin .. more

Joanna Bruck is an archaeologist and academic, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. She was previously Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol between 2013 and 2020. .. more

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Massive thanks from the ANSOC team & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social to all of our brilliant colleagues & to our partners Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service & @nmireland.bsky.social for a wildly successful #BronzeAgeForum @ucddublin.bsky.social!!! We had the best time!!!

A group of archaeologists from University College Dublin standing in front of the gold exhibit at the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 1d

Excavations at Needingworth Quarry, Cambridgeshire have revealed areas of prehistoric hoofprints. Identifiable as the hoofprints were pressed through a dark organic silt into the pale deposit underneath they date to between the Late Bronze Age and Late Iron Age and are thought to be bovid.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 4d

UCD banners are up - including the one inspired by the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC)

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1902 Committee @1902committee.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 Call for Papers: BIRAG 2026 🚨

The British & Irish Rock Art Group is gathering in Cromford, Derbyshire (Sept 4-6, 2026) to discuss new discoveries and interpretations of ancient art globally.

Submission emails:
📧 [email protected]
📧 [email protected]

Learn more at birag.co.uk 🪨✨

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 4d

Q: How do you get a 🦛 hippo out of a museum?
A: Very, very carefully. 👀
Go behind the scenes with Anna Massignan to see how thousands of specimens were safely moved during the Dead Zoo decant.
👉: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#NaturalHistory #MuseumLife #Museumology #NaturalHistory #NMIBlog

A life‑sized taxidermied hippopotamus, fully wrapped in protective plastic, is suspended by straps and chains as it is lifted through a wide, newly opened section of a brick wall.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 4d

This corner of a ditch was tied into the Middle Bronze Age field systems at Needingworth Quarry, Cambridgeshire. Bounding a field this ditch marked the edge of the system with unenclosed land, potentially used as pasture during prehistory, opening up beyond.

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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 5d

Come join our Ecologies of Governance team: we have a 30 month fieldwork based PDRA advertised @newcastleuni.bsky.social as a part of our AHRC funded project. Will work at Rendelsham, Dunadd, Navan Fort, Llangorse, Milfield royal palace sites for project. Pls RT: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM271/f...

Fieldwork Research Associate at Newcastle University

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Fieldwork Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you to the talented Sydney Thompson, HDip student @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, who has been working in our laboratory with archaeological conservator Susannah Kelly reconstructing some extremely fragmented and challenging bronze age burial urns

@ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 5d

🪲 Exploring Past Living Conditions Through Analysis of Archaeological Insects 🐞

For 'International Women and Girls in Science Day' Katie Wyse Jackson, MLitt student, discusses her research exploring what insect remains can tell us about living at Vindolanda Roman fort.
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 6d

Western Europe's earliest known mule died 2,700 years ago — and it was buried with a partially cremated woman | Live Science
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Western Europe's earliest known mule died 2,700 years ago — and it was buried with a partially cremated woman

Scientists have identified the oldest mule remains ever found in the western Mediterranean.

www.livescience.com

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 6d

‘Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England’

Congratulations Dr Anita Radini and co-authors from the University of York, led by Dr Steve Ashby, on this important new Open Access paper in Antiquity.

doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England

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Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 6d

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion - Nature

A distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry persisted 3,000 years later than in most European regions, contributing to later Lower Rhine–Meuse Bell Beaker users.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t forget to follow the links for our new MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in our advert in latest issue of Current World Archaeology !

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6d

‼️Published @royalsociety.org Open Science‼️ "From rugged isles to managed pastures: morphological changes in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) metacarpal bones following anthropogenic translocation" @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🐑🐏 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @soaysheep.bsky.social

Photograph of a Soay Sheep lamb with tags in its ears facing the camera, standing on grass. Source - A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection. Gross L, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/7/2006, e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1479004

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 6d

We are delighted to announce that the Prehistoric Society Europa Conference will be returning on 6th June 2026, with the theme: 'From the Ashes': How does understanding Prehistory inform a future world?

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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · 7d

🐄 Bayesian inference reveals sex-specific yields from ancient cattle bones? #ICArEHB #Zooarchaeology #Bayesian #OpenScience Rosalind Gillis in J Archaeol Method Theory: doi.org/10.1007/s108...

Bayesian Inference of Sex-Specific Mortality Profiles and Product Yields from Unsexed Cattle Zooarchaeological Remains - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Zooarchaeological age-at-death profiles for domesticated ruminants can be inferred from tooth eruption, replacement, and wear. These profiles contain important information on slaughter management and ...

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 7d

📣 New #OpenAccess Dataset 📣 led by @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Vera Haponava (PhD candidate), Prof Catriona Pickard & Ricardo Fernandes "The North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia isotopic dataset of bioarchaeological samples (NEENA)" 🔗 rdcu.be/e2kNw 🧪 18700+ measurements! #IsoMemo #Pandora #NEENA

Spatial distribution of sites included in the dataset. The size of the circle reflects the number of entries originating from a specific location, while colour intensity reflects their density. The map was created in QGIS 3.34 software using ESRI Terrain basemap.

Nested pie charts of the NEENA data. Distribution of the human and animal stable isotopic measurements in NEENA by isotope type and analysed component. Human data 76% collagen (d13C and d15N data predominantly, 1% d34S), 18% enamel, 6% other. Animal data 57% collagen (27% d13C, 27% d15N, 3% d34S), 41% enamel (19% d13C, 19% d18O), 2% other.

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 7d

Our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social G Cert Hunter-Gatherer Arch & Anth students spend summer using the excellent eHRAF @hraf755.bsky.social resource for their research projects. We did this a couple of yrs ago & the good folk at HRAF ran a news story about the results! 1/2

hraf.yale.edu/featuring-eh...

Featuring eHRAF research in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology at University College Dublin | Human Relations Area Files

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 9d

🐎 Today is your last chance to vote for Medieval Warhorse for Current Archaeology Book of the Year!

This book is the first ever systematic and integrated scholarly study of medieval warhorses spanning archaeology and history. #MedievalSky #Archaeology

Vote here ⬇️
archaeology.co.uk/vote

Promotional graphic showing the book cover *Medieval Warhorse: Equestrian Landscapes, Material Culture and Zooarchaeology in Britain AD 800–1550* alongside text reading “Medieval Warhorse nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year 2026.” The cover features illustrated medieval horses, including a skeletal study, mounted knights, and battle scenes, set against a parchment-style background.

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 11d

UCD School of Archaeology hosted a thoughtful and moving seminar with Prof Ian Kuijt of Notre Dame, exploring heritage destruction in Ukraine, memory and conflict through film and discussion. Thank you to everyone who joined us.
(Dr Claire Cave, Prof Ian Kuijt, Dr Ryan Lash)

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 12d

Day 1 of 2 day research trip to Ceide/Belderrig with Jessica Smyth, Philippe de Smedt & Sam Kelley @arctic-glacial.bsky.social. Lively weather! Fantastic day in Belderrig. lots of new ideas. Mesolithic site. Neolithic field systems. Bronze Age activity. Deglacial/glacial evd & spectacular geology

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Dr. Laura Heath-Stout @lheathstout.bsky.social · 13d

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 13d

We are delighted to launch two scholarships for 2026/2027:

🔹School of Archaeology Graduate Scholarship

🔹The Kay Mahon Bursaries

Scholarships are open to EU and international students applying for on-campus MSc programmes. Closing 31 May 2026.

Grad Studies information: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 15d

Some wetland archaeology books for World Wetlands Day!

#WorldWetlandsDay

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Michael O'Connell @moconnell007.bsky.social · 17d

Pleased to do honours at launch of ‘Booleying in Ireland’ by Theresa McDonald. Anything you will ever wish to know re. #booleying #transhumance in Achill & beyond is here. Fruits of years of interdisciplinary research @universityofgalway.bsky.social @globalgalway.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social

Booleying in Ireland. A study of an ancient farming tradition in Achill, County Mayo BY Theresa McDonald
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2025
ISBN 1036447448, 9781036447441
331 pp; 10 Chapters + bibliography & index
No. of illustrations: 116 – line drawings, photos incl. ‘old photographs’ cf. Lawrence Collection, archaeological drawings, graphs. Recent colour photographs
No. of tables: 6
Front cover illustration: 'A Home in Achill’ 1905. Francis Sylvester Walker’s late nineteenth century watercolour of a booley house somewhere on Achill Island (© National Library of Ireland, 62911)

Dr Theresa McDonald (author of: Booleying in Ireland. A study of an ancient farming tradition in Achill, County Mayo)
Dr Kieran O’Conor (PhD supervisor; Archaeology, University of Galway)
Professor Jim McAdam (editor of the volume; emeritus Queen’s University Belfast)
Professor Michael O’Connell (launched the volume; emeritus University of Galway)
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Country Life at Turlough, Castlebar, Co. Mayo

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 18d

Great news from @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Robert Power selected as a finalist in UCD’s Images of Research.

His research focuses on plants in the archaeological record, and the shortlisted image features emmer wheat, highlighting the role of plants in past societies.

www.ucd.ie/research/ima...

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 19d

Interested in Holocene Hunter-Gatherers? Come to UISPP Poznan (31 Aug-4 Sep) for session "Adapting to Diversity: Holocene Hunter-Gatherers in Varied World Landscapes" org. Frederica Fontana (Ferrara), Jacek Kabaciński (Polish Acad Sci) & me. Abstract below - deadline Feb 28th.

uispp2026.syskonf.pl

The defining feature of the Holocene is the global rise in temperatures that marked the end of the last glacial cycle. This major climatic transition concluded a process that had begun during the terminal Pleistocene, fostering the development of diverse ecological niches across the continents.
In terms of social dynamics, these processes were accompanied by a general demographic increase and a geographical redistribution of human communities across the planet. New territories—particularly those in the lower latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere and in mountain regions—became available for occupation, while coastal areas were progressively reduced in extent, forcing human groups to reorganize their settlement. During this period—particularly in its early phases in some parts of the planet Earth—certain human groups began transitioning toward agriculture and herding, while in most other regions hunting, gathering, and fishing remained the primary subsistence strategies. In the millennia that followed, the new economies spread at varying paces depending on the region, progressively reducing the areas occupied by hunter-gatherer communities.
This session welcomes contributions—at a global scale—focusing on how hunter-gatherer groups adapted to the diverse landscapes that emerged during the Holocene, maintaining a long-term perspective from the beginning of the period to the present day. Contributions may address any aspect of human adaptation, including settlement patterns, mobility, subsistence strategies, technological developments, and ritual or symbolic behaviors.

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UCD Library @ucdlibrary.bsky.social · 19d

In the first UCD Library #CulturalHeritage Collections blog post of 2026 Ailbe Van Der Heide of @bealoideasucd.bsky.social describes the folklore and traditions surrounding sheep.

Read: ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2026/01/29/t...

@ucdarchives.bsky.social @ucdscoilglcb.bsky.social

Black and white photo: Sheep flock, Co. Wicklow. Photographer: Maurice Curtin, 1936, NFC B014.10.00002

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20d

Dotted around the coast of the North Atlantic, stone weirs from the coast of Africa up to the cold climes of Ireland, UK and Brittany(fr) to the lower Arctic of northern America to the sunny shore of the tropics of South America. 1/8 #coastalhistory #tcdtceh #coastsinmind

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 20d

Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lab. Students volunteer for a couple of hours a week. They gain experience processing samples. We get samples processed! Everyone is happy... @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 25d

Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100. The evidence from Archaeological excavations

Only €9.99 as an ebook from @ria.ie

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Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100

How did people create and live in their own worlds in early medieval Ireland? What did they actually do? And to what end did they do it? This book investigates and reconstructs from archaeological evi...