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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 · 9d

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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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6h

Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.

Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 6h

NEW Have archaeologists identified the largest nucleated settlement in prehistoric Ireland and Britain? Survey at Brusselstown Ring, one of the largest hillforts in Ireland, found evidence for potentially hundreds of occupied roundhouses!

Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Photogrammetry map of a round hill (Brusselstown Ring hillfort) annotated with potential roundhouse footprints, test trench locations and a potential cistern

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Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 1d

One of the Carrowkeel cairns for #tombTuesday last week.
The climb up and the views around make this monument to a great experience.

Carrowkeel cairn in Ireland and surrounding views

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Audrey Lin, DPhil @undeaddandy.bsky.social · 1d

Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n

A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS

Dogs evolved through interactions between people and gray wolves during the Late Pleistocene and have been ubiquitous in human societies ever since...

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 1d

New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.

Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology

This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 4d

@nationalmons.bsky.social !

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Kath Page @orkat3.bsky.social · 5d

In case I haven't bored you enough, here's an update on my #PhD research exploring the #reddeer deposits at the Ness. Thanks to @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social and @orkneyarchaeology.bsky.social for their ongoing support
#Neolithic #Archaeology
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The riddle of the red deer – the research continues…

UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Kath Page outlines her ongoing research into red deer in prehistory and at the Ness.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 6d

❗ Our RemAaRCs: on Mutualism - The Science of Interrelatedness has a new date and time ❗

3-5pm London time / 4-6pm CET / 10-12am ET

@aarc-community.bsky.social #aDNA

Reposted by Graeme Warren, Catherine J. Frieman, Joanna Brück

James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 8d

Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk

Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland

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Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 8d

What stunning views from these Irish passage graves @Carrowkeel

Carrowkeel megalithic monuments and landscape

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's a little more tired than usual this Monday morning, but well worth it for a brill weekend at BAF! Very well done to all the presenters, Jo and the team @ansoc-erc.bsky.social on a great conference.

ANSOC team pictured at the National Museum of Ireland in front of the Lunulae exhibit.

Panel of speakers from a session of the Bronze Age Forum pictured during a discussion period in front of the audience of delegates.

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 9d

We so enjoyed having you, Lorrae, and Elle here!

Your presentations were marvellous 🤩 Animal rich, thought-provoking, and wonderfully nuanced, we’re still talking about them 😎

We’re truly excited to see your forthcoming work in print!

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Birthday, Cate!!!

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 9d

Many thanks, Sue! So happy to have you here (and your good luck for Irish rugby)!

Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social team for a cracking Bronze Age Forum conference. Learnt lots and met some lovely people!

Photo of the lake at the centre of UCD campus. Some big white letters are on the far right of the view. Behind the lake are a series of low concrete and glass buildings.

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and the @ansoc-erc.bsky.social team for a cracking Bronze Age Forum conference. Learnt lots and met some lovely people!

Photo of the lake at the centre of UCD campus. Some big white letters are on the far right of the view. Behind the lake are a series of low concrete and glass buildings.

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · 11d

It was a really brilliant first day of the Bronze Age Forum yesterday! Thoroughly enjoyed all the talks on Bronze age animal worlds and materials. Some pics of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social colleagues presenting on ongoing and exciting new projects!

Speaker Nóra and co-presenters Eleanor and Kate stand at podium in front of a presentation with a photograph of a bronze age pig figurine with a title that reads The Boar Dynamics.

Speaker, Floor Huisman at the podium for her talk "Tracks in the Mud" in front of a presentation slide titled Background - The Issue with photographs and maps of archaeological excavations.

Speaker, Mark Haugton, at the podium for his talk on Bronze Age Woolen textiles in front of a slide showing archaeology distribution maps and data graphs.

Busy registration table on the first day of the Bronze Age Forum.

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 11d

Dublin by night, The Liffey
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright

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

Home and Away: The Reach and Range of Archaeology at UCD.
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Research Day 2025

Theatre L143, Sutherland School of Law, 2 Dec, 9:30-16:30.

Includes a celebration of our Early Career Researchers chaired by UCD VP Prof Kate Robson Brown

RSVP by 21 Nov: [email protected]

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 12d

Come work with us! Prehistoric Policies is coordinated by me, Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social and Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social. Contact me with any queries.

UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 12d

Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.

Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....

@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social

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anthrofuentes.bsky.social @anthrofuentes.bsky.social · 12d

Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces! New article from excellent ongoing project with @mfhansen.bsky.social aias.au.dk/events/show/...

Towards coexistence: human-animal co-construction of behaviour in shared spaces

Humans and animals have always shared spaces, food and lives, but little research sheds light on this coexistence. In a new study, AIAS Fellow, cultural biologist Malene Friis Hansen and Professor Agu...

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 12d

Our sincerest thanks to @nationalmons.bsky.social for sending us so many wonderful items to share with our interantional delegates at #BronzeAgeForum 2025
#BronzeAge #archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 12d

Day 1 at #BronzeAgeForum 2025 @ucddublin.bsky.social delegates are arriving, badges and programmes in hand, and a quick coffee and chat before we get going #BronzeAge #archaeology #ANSOC

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 12d

Join us today @ucddublin.bsky.social for the #BronzeAgeForum 2025 Brought to you by @ansoc-erc.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service and @nmireland.bsky.social #BronzeAge Follow the signs!

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 12d

Three of the log boats discovered during the Must Farm palaeochannel excavations are going on display at Flag Fen Archaeology Park. Nine boats were found with dates ranging from the Early Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rare Bronze Age log boats on display in Peterborough first

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 12d

Must Farm log boats on display at Flag Fen, and Iona Robinson Zeki in the Guardian ⭐️

Rare bronze and iron age log boats reveal details of Cambridgeshire prehistory

Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in Peterborough

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 12d

Coming in April 2026!

This truly fabulous volume will be published early next year and putting this together was just a great journey. It allowed working together with many amazing scholars from different parts of the world and I profited so much from reading and engaging with all the chapters.

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Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 12d

Arrived in Dublin for 3 days of Bronze Age Forum. Looking forward to meet lots of friends and colleagues again.
bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

bronze age forum 2025

bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

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Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social · 12d

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The emergence and diversification of dog morphology

Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...

www.science.org

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 12d

📣 New Open Access Paper! Led by Dr Robin Bendrey & published in EMPH it explores how #OneHealth approaches can aid our understanding of infectious disease dynamics associated with emergent animal farming in both the past and the present 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf029 #EdinArch #zooarch