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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 .. more

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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 · 15d
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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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 13h
Prof Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact celebrating the publication of four books by our Early Career Researchers, Dr Mark Haughton, Dr Kate Kanne, and Dr Ryan Lash

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 17h
UCD School of Archaeology 2025 Research Day is on, “Home and Away: The reach and range of archaeology at UCD” @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

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UCL Institute of Archaeology / British Museum Medieval Seminar @uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social · 1d
*TOMORROW!* For our last seminar of 2025, we welcome Prof Oliver Creighton (Exeter) for his paper 'Medieval warhorse: the archaeology of a medieval revolution?' Join us in Room 205 @uclarchaeology.bsky.social 6:15pm for what promises to be a fascinating paper. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 2d
Closing date Dec 3rd. 1 year post as Researcher on our Prehistoric Policies project. 👇👇👇
ucdarchaeology.bsky.social UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 18d
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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Robert C Power @robertcpower.bsky.social · 3d
Had the pleasure of delivering my talk at the WomenSOFar workshop (Aix-Marseille University) on understand variation in diet by sex in early agropastoralists. Many thanks Gwen for the invitation & for one of the most impressive discussion whiteboards I’ve ever seen! dietevo.ie/womensofar-c...

Reposted by Joanna Brück, Naomi Sykes

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 4d
What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs?

Can I interest you in some cats?

Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia?

As you wish!

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

Cell Genomics
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago
The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...
www.science.org

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Science Magazine @science.org · 5d
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.

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Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · 5d
OUT NOW!
An Aerial Archaeologist’s Logbook, 1970-1995. 100 Air Photographs from Northern Britain
by D. W. Harding

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/an-aer...

#aerialphotography #archaeology

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 5d
We brought the wild with us 🐾 to last week’s Bronze Age Forum!
Grateful to our hosts @ucddublin.bsky.social for an engaging programme and warm welcome! #Archaeology #BronzeAgeForum #WilderPasts

Reposted by Graeme Warren, Joanna Brück

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 5d
NEXT WEEK!

Our Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next Thursday, 4th December, 7.30pm

"Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain” will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of
@ucddublin.bsky.social

FREE, online, everyone welcome
Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...
Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025
The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 6d
Oh that’s brilliant, Cate! Massive congratulations 🥳 🍻🥂

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 6d
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

Reposted by Joanna Brück, Aidan O’Sullivan

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 6d
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 · 7d
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 · 8d
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...
www.pnas.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 10d
@nationalmons.bsky.social !

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Kath Page @orkat3.bsky.social · 12d
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 · 12d
❗ 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

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James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 14d
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
doi.org

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Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social · 15d
What stunning views from these Irish passage graves @Carrowkeel
Carrowkeel megalithic monuments and landscape

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · 15d
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.

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 15d
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!

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16d
Happy Birthday, Cate!!!

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16d
Many thanks, Sue! So happy to have you here (and your good luck for Irish rugby)!
suegreaney.bsky.social Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 16d
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 · 16d
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 · 17d
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 · 18d
Dublin by night, The Liffey
#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright

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