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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe
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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
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 29d
The team is ready ✅
The venues are still standing ✅
The programme is live ✅
The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅

Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025

Spread the word and we'll see you in November!
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 18h
The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16h
I love archaeological reconstructions - and they’re always fun to deconstruct - what is this artists image saying about power, gender, status, etc, and how do these images create thoughts in our head, and how do we watch for their influence on us - they’re active not passive
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Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 17h
Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.
A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.
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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 1d
#A&K. With Alive & Kicking n.9 we would like to celebrate the work of a wonderful friend and colleague who left us far too soon. Here is her influential paper on donkey domestication. This is for you, Stine. We miss you very much. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 4d
Two superb lectures from UCD Archaeology ‘camp’ at Friends of Medieval Dublin conference at Trinity College. Well, Russell is now at University of St Andrews, but was a @researchireland.ie post-doc with us, and Sam is working on his @researchireland.ie PhD on Viking burials
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 8d
Ever wondered what secrets lie behind flamingos, fossils & glass beetles?
Step into late night at the Dead Zoo Lab & meet the experts
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
🕕 Thurs 2 Oct | 6–7:30PM
🎟️ Free | Drop-in | All Ages
No booking needed – just curiosity
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 8d
“Time and tides: archaeological secrets of the Shannon & Fergus estuary mudflats from prehistory to modern times”

Limericks Built Heritage: 8th Series of Exploratory Lectures
Woodlands Hotel, Adare, 8pm, October 1st 2025

Looking forward to this, fond memories of a special place & time in my life
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 10d
Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
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An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 9d
Announcing the launch of new exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” at Kilmainham Gaol, showcasing the precious things that refugees have brought with them to Ireland, and the moving stories of courage, resilience, love and hope that these objects have to tell.
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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 9d
Interested in goats 🐐? Read our pre-print on ancient Irish goats and their connection to the Old Irish goat breed

Just look at this dashing individual, courtesy of the Old Irish Goat society
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 10d
Very happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm

I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland
The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5,900 years ago, and remains a part of the island's biocultural heritage. Howev...
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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 12d
While in 2022-2023, with the new job at MOLA, I struggled to publish -I had to learn a lot of new things!- these recent months have been more productive, and a few things have recently came out. I am particularly happy that this article about personhood in the Argar, in the Bronze Age...
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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · 12d
New paper out today, emphasizing the importance and utility of museum collections in new research, using bones stored at Harvard for 50 years! How did herd management change over thousands of years at Tepe Yahya, an important archaeological site in Iran? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Large-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic investigations into caprine diet and management at Tepe Yahya, southeastern Iran
Tepe Yahya, a small urban center in southeastern Iran, was embedded in cross-cultural exchange with the many entities of southwestern Asia. Besides an understanding that caprines dominated the animal ...
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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 12d
What's that? The story of East Asian pig domestication as told through ancient DNA? Yes please! Congrats to everyone on such a fantastic and overdue story! Pigs are so great.
doi.org/10.1093/molb...
Ancient Genomics Reveals the Origin, Dispersal, and Human Management of East Asian Domestic Pigs
Abstract. Pigs are the most commercially important modern livestock animal in East Asia. Numerous aspects of their domestication history remain unclear, ho
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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 14d
Brilliant to see such a varied group of skills being brought together as part of this workshop co-organised by Oxford Archaeology's UKRI-funded 'Rewilding' Later Prehistory project team and the Knepp Castle Estate Team 🍃
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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 14d
Great to meet such a diverse and lively group of archaeologists, ecologists, farmers, geographers etc at our 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop earlier this month. Thank you @kneppwilding.bsky.social for the beautiful venue, Guerilla Archaeology and all others who contributed! #WildWednesdays
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 14d
“The Cult of St Leo in Inishark: A Creative Heritage”
Dr Ryan Lash, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Presentation as part of the Dublin Festival of History at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2.
3 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/the-cu...

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‘…the development of Leo’s cult from the devotions of early medieval monks to the picnics, pilgrimages, and politics of islanders in the 19th and 20th centuries’
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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 15d
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology
The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield
YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab
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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 16d
For those of you attending, or interested, in the 11th ICAZ-AGPM meeting (International Council for Archaeozoology-Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics) October 14-17 in Copenhagen, the preliminary programme is available on our website! sites.google.com/palaeome.org...
ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Programme
Preliminary programme
sites.google.com
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 19d
"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.

🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without
8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference
Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions
bit.ly
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 19d
While at #Ploughing2025, the Irish Antiquities team spoke to @agriland.bsky.social about how farmers help protect Ireland’s archaeological heritage—and what they should do if they or anyone uncover artefacts.
🎥 Watch: www.agriland.ie/farming-vide...
Farmers and their contribution to archaeology #Ploughing2025
We heard about the artefacts that farmers are uncovering on their land when speaking to Róisín...
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 19d
One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
Depiction of the Second Coming in the ‘Irish Gospels of St Gall’; St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang 51, p. 267. © Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 20d
Be part of Within|Without, the archaeology conference exploring how partitions shape who we are.
🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025 🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin
🌍 In-person and online options
👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

#WithinWithout2025 #NMSArchaeologyConference
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 20d
🔨 See flint knapping in action!
Join the Irish Antiquities team at the Culture, Creativity, Archaeology & Sport Marquee, Gov of Ireland Village, @ the #NationalPloughingChampionship today,
Thurs 18 Sept, 11:30–12:15.
Explore prehistoric tools & what they tell us!
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 21d
Join the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland for live craft demonstrations at the National Ploughing Championships 2025!
Discover traditional skills and explore Ireland’s rich archaeological heritage in action. #ThePloughing
www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...
Kids get stuck into a pottery demonstration hosted by the Irish Antiquities division. A pottery demonstration hosted by the Irish Antiquities division.
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 22d
@kristinaoma.bsky.social: "Those death did not part. Human-dog burials in Iron Age Northern Norway."

@yrjaskj.bsky.social: "Encounters in Stone: Red Deer - Human Relationships in the Late Mesolithic Rock Art site Vingen"

@phoebe-liu.bsky.social: "The origins of animal transactions in Britain"
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 22d
@nnicaoidh.bsky.social: "Cattle-gorisation? : nonhuman animal taxonomies in Nordic Bronze Age rock art"
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