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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · May 15

Biggest congratulations to Dr Kate Kanne of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social on the release of your new edited volume, "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory"! 🐎 #zooarchaeology #adna #Horses #animalhistory

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · May 14

ANSOC's Kate Kanne, with @helenebenkert.bsky.social & Camille M.L. Vo Van Qui are very pleased & proud to announce that our edited volume "Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History" from the amazing @sidestone.bsky.social is officially published open access!
www.sidestone.com/books/harnes... 👇

Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press

The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical rol...

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Mar 31

Yes!! Roll on Belgrade! 🐮🐑🐖

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Mar 31

Well, I think I speak for all of us when I say that a great time was had at the #KielConference this last week! What a privilege to be working with such brilliant colleagues - great job guys, and so much fun @nnicaoidh.bsky.social @fjhuisman.bsky.social @ansoc-erc.bsky.social!!

Speaker, Eleanor Swallow, speaking on a stage in front of a presentation slide titled "Livingstock: Deposition" with Archaeological animal deposition images and reconstruction illustrations of Bronze Age settlement scenes.

Speakers Eleanor Swallow, Nóra Nic Aoidh, and Kate Kanne, standing on stage presenting the conclusions of their talk at the Kiel Conference.

Members of the ANSOC research project (left to right) Eleanor, Kate, Nóra, and Floor, sat around the dinner table.

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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists @ayiaconference.bsky.social · Mar 21

The deadline for submissions (i.e. title and abstract of no more than 200 words) is 17:00 on Friday 25 April 2025 and should be sent to [email protected]

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Call for Papers - AYIA@TII Heritage Week 2025

The TII Archaeology and Heritage section, in partnership with the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists (AYIA), is inviting early career researchers, including undergraduates, to submit paper prop...

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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists @ayiaconference.bsky.social · Mar 21

The TII Archaeology and Heritage section, in partnership with the Association of Young Irish Archaeologists (AYIA), is inviting early career researchers, including undergraduates, to submit paper proposals for the forthcoming TII Heritage Week conference in Dublin. 1/3

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Mar 1

We've been so lucky with the weather on UCD SoA fieldtrips over the last couple of weekends! Few pictures here from today's to the National Heritage Park in Ferrycarrig. Maybe time now for a nap on the journey back to Dublin...

UCD SoA's Conor McDermott giving a lecture on a reconstructed Crannog to archaeology students.

Picture of a replica Viking longboat looking out onto a lake.

Reconstructed Viking house pictured under a very blue sky.

Reconstruction of a portal tomb in a wooded area.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Feb 22

What a wonderful start of the day with our very own Dr Ryan Lash leading a fantastic field trip for the module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape! Glorious day, very engaging talk and equally engaged students! The module is open to all students @ucddublin.bsky.social

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · Feb 22

Our field trip for the module #ARCH2017 Discovering Ireland Landscape at UCD School of Archaeology (coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash) ends in a glorious sunshine at Ballymoon Castle - can you imagine a better classroom for your studies?
Thank you to our School tutors Ellie and Cara for the help today!

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Feb 17

I had an absolutely wonderful weekend at the @ayiaconference.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social. Brilliant talks, turn out, prizes, and experimental workshops @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social!

A student taking part in an craft workshop. They are sat at a table plaiting yarn to make impression decoration on hand made clay tiles.

Photograph overlooking some of the audience of early careers archaeologists from the AYIA conference, connecting and networking over a coffee break.

Photograph of a question and answer session with three of the conference presenters.

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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists @ayiaconference.bsky.social · Feb 7

Our programme for Saturday is packed with great speakers! You’ll also have the opportunity to interact with companies and organisations at our mini career fair #archaeology #AYIAconference

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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists @ayiaconference.bsky.social · Feb 6

Just over a week to go! We have a full day of presentations, a mini-career fair, an amazing keynote speaker and a pub quiz all planned for Saturday. On Sunday there will be illustration workshops and an experimental archaeology ‘field day’. Reserve your spot at tinyurl.com/ayiatickets

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · Jan 22

We are delighted to announce that the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by UCD School of Archaeology, 14-16 Nov 2025, with kind support of @nationalmons.bsky.social, TII and @nmireland.bsky.social. For info see bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAge #Archaeology

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Nóra Nic Aoidh @nnicaoidh.bsky.social · Feb 5

Attn: eager beavers, giddy geese, and stubborn...humans! The call for papers has been extended until Monday 10th of February.

Join @ansoc-erc.bsky.social students: Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, @eswallow.bsky.social, and I in session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy New Year!

Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social.

Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎

A call for papers poster for session #111 at the European Association of Archaeologists conference 2025. Titled "Let's address the other-than-human animal in the room: moving forward with multispecies archaeologies of prehistory".

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Association of Young Irish Archaeologists @ayiaconference.bsky.social · Jan 6

The AYIA conference submission deadline has been extended to the 24th of January 2025! To submit your abstract, please visit tinyurl.com/ayia2025.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted so far - we are delighted to read such a wide range of submissions! 🏛️📚🤎 #AYIA2025

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Jan 6

Happy New Year!

Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social.

Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Dec 10

Thoroughly enjoyed today's UCD SoA Research Day! Dr Kate Kanne, resident zooarch of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social, gave a brilliant presentation with research updates from ANSOC.🐎🐮🐑🐐🐷

Speaker, Dr Kate Kanne presenting her talk at UCD Research Day. On the screen behind is the title slide of her presentation, which reads "Hooves Made Who? Animal-human sociality and dependence in the Dutch Bronze Age", over a background depicting a Bronze Age settlement reconstruction.

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · Dec 3

Lovely day at SoA PhD Research Day! Presentations on everything from Viking ring pins @jp1331.bsky.social to Roman osteoarchaeology @mserranor.bsky.social

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · Nov 28

Continuing #CatsOfPrehistorians & ANSOC team introductions are Roger Daltrey (18 years old), and his annoying little adopted sister, Princess Leia (12 years old), relaxing after a long day working as PhD researcher Eleanor Swallow's assistant, collating & interpreting animal deposits #Archaeology

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · Nov 19

@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @ercgrantees.bsky.social It is with great pleasure that we announce that the ERC-funded archaeology project ANSOC has arrived on Bluesky. For more on the project, its aims, scope, team and outputs, got to and ansoc.net.

ANSOC: Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe

ERC-funded project (101055195)

ansoc.net

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