Zenobie Garrett
@zenobiewan.bsky.social
Archaeologist. American. Alliterator. Asst Director of Dún Ailinne Field School, Kildare. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Limerick with IrelandMapped.
Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.
October 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.
does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?
September 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?
Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?
Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.
July 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.
How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!
June 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!
Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.
June 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.
This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.
Good morning everyone 🏺
May your day soar like this archaeologist, who experimented with different ways of taking aerial photos of sites. In this case, a 9.7-meter tall extendable ladder for cleaning streetlights.
🔗 from the #AntiquityArchive (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
May your day soar like this archaeologist, who experimented with different ways of taking aerial photos of sites. In this case, a 9.7-meter tall extendable ladder for cleaning streetlights.
🔗 from the #AntiquityArchive (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
June 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.
Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!
June 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!
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This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved
@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved
@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social
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"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not."
Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins
The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not."
Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺
The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵
May 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵
Such a cool piece and so glad to see actual space archaeologists getting some love! @drspacejunk.bsky.social @jstpwalsh.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
The 'space archaeologists' hoping to save our cosmic history
The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, "space archaeologists" are scrambling to save what's left.
www.bbc.com
May 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Such a cool piece and so glad to see actual space archaeologists getting some love! @drspacejunk.bsky.social @jstpwalsh.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...
This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!
What does #ResearchSustainability mean to you? DRI asked some of our contributing researchers and data stewards to tell us the challenges they faced and discuss practical solutions for our community. #FAIRdata #DigitalPreservation
On the DRI blog, we share what we learned: dri.ie/news/put-peo...
On the DRI blog, we share what we learned: dri.ie/news/put-peo...
Put people first and research will thrive: Stories of human connection and perseverance underpin research sustainability - Digital Repository of Ireland
In 2024, the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) predicted at the launch of our 2025-2029 Strategic Plan that in the next five years there will be “more collection and research data reuse and a greate...
dri.ie
May 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!
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a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely:
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
May 8, 2025 at 7:40 AM
a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely:
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research
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We're all set for the Conference of Irish Geographers starting tomorrow 😍 @irelandmapped.bsky.social exhibition in place and all set up ready
May 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We're all set for the Conference of Irish Geographers starting tomorrow 😍 @irelandmapped.bsky.social exhibition in place and all set up ready
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Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/reco...
April 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/reco...
Shoutout 2 @lisagriffith.bsky.social 4 doing the hard work of herding the authorial cats & to Stuart for being so involved in creating great tech he’s not on the social techs. And to @profkdlilley.bsky.social & @catsporter.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions here and the entire project!
DRI's @lisagriffith.bsky.social and Stuart Kenny along with members of the @irelandmapped.bsky.social project contributed to a new paper on ‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’: Connecting Collections for Nineteenth-Century Ireland: doi.org/10.5334/johd... #Mapping #OrdnanceSurvey
‘A Digital Archive of Ireland’s Ordnance Survey’: Connecting Collections for Nineteenth-Century Ireland | Journal of Open Humanities Data
doi.org
April 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Shoutout 2 @lisagriffith.bsky.social 4 doing the hard work of herding the authorial cats & to Stuart for being so involved in creating great tech he’s not on the social techs. And to @profkdlilley.bsky.social & @catsporter.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions here and the entire project!
I’ve seen a lot of people especially in admin and corporate worlds advocate for using AI to handle email. And my question is, if a person isn’t needed, why does that email even need to exist?
April 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’ve seen a lot of people especially in admin and corporate worlds advocate for using AI to handle email. And my question is, if a person isn’t needed, why does that email even need to exist?
Downloading firmware updates at the bus stop.
April 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Downloading firmware updates at the bus stop.
Excited to be lecturing on place-making and archaeology for @catsporter.bsky.social in @ulgeog.bsky.social Historical Geography module!
March 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Excited to be lecturing on place-making and archaeology for @catsporter.bsky.social in @ulgeog.bsky.social Historical Geography module!
The only snakes left in Ireland on this St Patrick’s Day seem to be these radiocarbon ranges slithering across the page.
March 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The only snakes left in Ireland on this St Patrick’s Day seem to be these radiocarbon ranges slithering across the page.
If anyone sees or knows of any GIS, archive, research, or archaeology jobs in the Limerick or Dublin era please send them my way!
March 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
If anyone sees or knows of any GIS, archive, research, or archaeology jobs in the Limerick or Dublin era please send them my way!
“Digital Management” in archaeology
POV: you open up an old MXD after migrating to ArcGIS Pro
March 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Digital Management” in archaeology
Playing with color coding and temporal organization (4D in 2D honestly hurts) for DA stratigraphy. What a Sunday! #irisharchaeology
March 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Playing with color coding and temporal organization (4D in 2D honestly hurts) for DA stratigraphy. What a Sunday! #irisharchaeology