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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 1d

Right and also! Free talk tomorrow! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...

Join us for this free public talk about growing up human. We'll explore why it takes humans so much longer to grow up compared to our primate relatives.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 1d

Ready for a career in ruins??? Come see us and hear about how we fit you for the future, from field work to forensics ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 15d

We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 15d

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

Growing Up Human

This talk will look at the incredible evolutionary story of how humans came to spend quite so much of our time playing around.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Aug 16

Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England

www.newscientist.com

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Aug 14

And our students are kinda super too :)

Slide about course rep system and unitu system

ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Aug 14

We are proud to be strong on academic support with super low staff student ratios

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Aug 14

So many opportunities to learn! And did we mention fieldwork?? (Am typing this from Greek island)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s NSS day! And we are very pleased with our marks 🥰 1st for positivity, student voice, learning opportunities, assessment feedback, and academic support!!!! Our students are CLEARLY correct in their opinions of our courses ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Jul 11

Check out this thread by our own Dr. Jen Jones & collaborators who have been exploring cave bear diet, what it might tell us about the extinction of the species, & how we can use this knowledge to support threatened bear species today!

See her article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Jul 3

Archaeology: actually quite entertaining for the younger set ;)

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · Jul 3

Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...

ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Jun 20

Excellent job to organisers Allie Stewart and Jen Jones on yesterday’s NWDTP funded Science & Sociology of Children and Childhood conference yesterday. Super well done to all the PhD students who presented!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · Jun 17

Looking forward to seeing everyone for our special conference on the Science and sociology of childhood on Thursday!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 30

You poke your head up from a nice little test trench and find this… happy #FieldworkFriday from Lowther Castle! 🏺

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 29

On the 4th October we will be celebrating 20 years of Archaeology at our University! We'd love to see as many partner organisations, former students and collaborators there as possible there to celebrate with us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 29

Featuring our own @brennawalks.bsky.social ;)

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · May 24

Got kids aged 8-12? Get them my new book about the Stone Age! It’s funny, crammed with facts, explains human evolution, and is cowritten by the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and illustrated by fab @rikinparekh.bsky.social

PRE-ORDER NOW! Out July 3rd

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 28

Here is some more reading if you fancy!!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 4/4

Petrous bone diagenesis: a multi-analytical approach

The discovery of petrous bone as an excellent repository for ancient biomolecules has been a turning point in biomolecular archaeology, especially in …

www.sciencedirect.com

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 28

And, early life diet studies!

Isotopic values in the bone are similar to the teeth, both differing from long-bones.

The lack of remodelling after the age of 2, reflects the diet in early life.

Evidence:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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The petrous bone—A new sampling site for identifying early dietary patterns in stable isotopic studies

Intraskeletal variation in the composition of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) stable isotopes measured in collagen is tested from various human bones and dentine. Samples were taken from the femur,...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 28

The Petrous bone can tell us lots of things!!
Ancient DNA (aDNA) is one! It tells us about genetics in the past!

The density means it preserves the collagen well, which means aDNA extraction for us to analyse!

An example:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool - Nature

Archaeogenetic study of ancient DNA from medieval northwestern Europeans reveals substantial increase of continental northern European ancestry in Britain, suggesting mass migration across the North S...

www.nature.com

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 28

Bet you don’t think this is very useful right? A bone like this, it probably doesn't even preserve well. And what could we possibly use it for?

Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little.

Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts.

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 28

Our Bone Bootcamp lab placement students are hosting a social media takeover! Today they have been learning about the Skull! Stay tuned for some of their content....

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 22

And bringing the #zooarchaeology to #archaeology is PhD student Sarah Ruth Hunt presenting thought-provoking work on ritual animal deposition in some very cool caves for the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference 🦭🦭🦭

Student standing in front of title slide reading ‘ritual deposition of animal remains in Neolithic cave burials: continuity or a new process

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 22

Great #bioarchaeology / #archaeology presentation on her research into decapitation using 3d imaging from PhD student Amy Brookes-Cole at the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference

Student standing in auditorium in front of presentation showing map of cemetery

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 19

Is this what you want your #archaeology course to look like? Because we’ve got some good news for you… ;) excavations kicking off at Lowther with full complement of BSc Arch and Arch/Anth students!

Two students walking in a very big green field

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · May 19

Dinosaurs are the bane of any archaeologist’s existence #TrueFacts

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