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Penny Bickle

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Archaeologist | Orienteerer | Wanderer. Professor of Funerary Archaeology at the University of York, specializing mostly in the central European Neolithic.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Nov 16

Hello blue sky! Just a quick post to say hi and that I’m moving over here. Looking forward to posting about archaeology, orienteering, travels and maybe a little about my border terrier puppy Hutton!

A cute brown and black puppy is sitting and looking up at the camera

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Cluster of Excellence ROOTS @clusterroots.bsky.social · 5d

You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students.

Apply now!

All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
#earlycareerscientists #jobs

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you James. I had lofty ideals when we started organising and there are so many hurdles, all we can do is our best.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 5d

No time would be ideal. See also discussion about week day versus weekend TAGs. You can’t please everyone. This year it’s good for our students, but they will struggle with Exeter next year. We are trying our best and it’s bloody hard work.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 5d

Hi Tess, we are trying our very best. There are bursaries for those on the unwaged fee - but TAG has no sponsorship beyond Antiquity's very generous help and all busaries must come from selling tickets. We've worked hard to keep costs at £110 for 3 days - half the cost of CiFA, which is 2.

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 6d

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?

You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...

@royalarchinst.bsky.social

Bursaries

Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...

www.royalarchinst.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 8d

Oh this is just fantastic news! Congratulations Brenna! Excited to hear more about the research and sounds like there will be two very lucky people joining the project as a PhD and Postdoc.

Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 8d

so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.

i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3

www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...

Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick

University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.

www.lancashire.ac.uk

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 8d

Donations very welcome to support bursaries at TAG YORK 2025.

We want to increase the accessibility of TAG, and these donations will help us do that.

You can read more about the bursaries here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 10d

Love how you just sent me all the weird cow stuff now 💜

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 20d

Like voting, register early and often...

TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Registration is now open! 📢

Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.

Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40

More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 21d

Super proud of my PhD student Iseabail Wilks for her first paper (based on her MSc dissertation for the Masters in Funerary Archaeology here at York!). She applies archaethanatology to LBK Burials to under more about the death work that went into inhumations. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16077?...

Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of an archaeo...

Introduction The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities are the first to have practised agriculture in most of central Europe. Originating in Hungary before spreading into an area extending from the P...

journals.openedition.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 28d

We have a small number of bursaries for this year's TAG - if you are speaking and fall into the unwaged category (students and those currently not in employment) please apply! Deadline 15th Oct.

TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · 28d

Good News! The bursary applications for TAG 2025 are open! Deadline 15th October. Apply via our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/

Bursaries - TAG 2025

tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · Sep 11

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows

Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’

www.theguardian.com

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Sep 6

Congratulations!

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@clmorgan.bsky.social

Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · Sep 4

The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time

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ALT: a woman in a suit holds her hand to her face

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Sep 2

The replica pots are out for the first time in a while! It’s time for prehistoric cheese.

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Sep 1

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

NEIF National Environmental Isotope Facility @isotopesuk.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

www.cambridge.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 18

Definitely a paper for the LBK and/or chronology geeks!

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 18

The paper is open access in Antiquity and published as an e print ahead of publication.

Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 18

New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)

www.cambridge.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 14

@cjfrieman.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @suegreaney.bsky.social

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you are interested in the original research, the two articles are both open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
And
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Social and Genetic Relations in Neolithic Ireland: Re-evaluating Kinship | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core

Social and Genetic Relations in Neolithic Ireland: Re-evaluating Kinship - Volume 35 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 14

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

Current Archaeology

Britain's favourite archaeology magazine

archaeology.co.uk

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · Aug 7

Join the Archaeology and Worldbuilding game at TAG 2025 in York. Not your usual type of session for TAG! (though we have a few more things like this planned).

If you are interested and can commit to the session sign up below.

Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Aug 7

Call for participants! @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, Stu Eve and I are holding an Archaeology & Worldbuilding playtesting and discussion workshop at @tag2025york.bsky.social!

We have limited spaces, please sign up:

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TAG 2025 Worldbuilding Sign Up

This form is for you to sign up to participate in the TAG2025 Worldbuilding session. The session requires a 3 hour commitment and the slots are limited to 30 people. We will be playing an archaeology-...

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TAG 2025 @ York @tag2025york.bsky.social · Aug 5

⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️

Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.

Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

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