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Graeme Warren
@graemewarren.bsky.social
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hunter-gatherer archaeology at UCD Archaeology; Book *Hunter-Gatherer Ireland* (Winner EAA Book Prize 2024); President *International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research*; grows/eats chillies; mountain/ultra runner
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#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology reprise. I offer a typical N Yorkshire (England) uplands Mesolithic flint portfolio from the overlap period between the hunter-gatherers and first Neolithic farmers, pot & salt makers around 3800 BCE. More C14 dates due soon. timevista.co.uk/about/resear...
Selection of flint artefacts from the Late Mesolitic period (8000-3800 BCE) from the upland North York Moors, England. Microliths (narrow blade tools including arrow points & barbs) to the L side, Blades (knives) top R, and a typical core - what's left after removing the blades from a flint pebble with an antler hammer is bottom R. This selection is around (dated) 5000 to 3800 BCE. Flint here originated and was transported by people from beach deposits several miles/kms away, dragged by glaciers more than 12,000 years ago through what is now the North Sea (sea level rise).
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Come work with us! Prehistoric Policies is coordinated by me, Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social and Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social. Contact me with any queries.
ucdarchaeology.bsky.social UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 3d
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
November 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Reposted by Graeme Warren
martinporr.bsky.social
theconversation.com/who-speaks-f...
Who speaks for the dead? Rethinking consent in ancient DNA research
Ethical guidelines for ancient DNA need to protect past, present and future generations.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 AM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Gah - the link on the job advert below not working properly.

Go to www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... and follow embedded links to Research Vacancies.

Sorry!
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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archsoundscapes.bsky.social
Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Project Researcher within UCD School of Archaeology. This position supports the British Academy funded Prehistoric Policies project. PP examines the ways in which environmental policies in Britain and Ireland, and especially those focused on the Just Transition, use figures of the prehistoric past to support their claims, often using popular science accounts as their main sources. PP will analyse environmental discourse and policy and conduct interviews with key figures to better understand why future-facing documents refer back to the human past as well as what kinds of claims are made and whether they are well-founded. PP also includes public-facing events to raise awareness of the way in which prehistory is being used in environmental policy. Fixed Salary: €46,700 Per Annum Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 3rd December 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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JOB KLAXON

1 Yr Project Researcher @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social working on @britishacademy.bsky.social funded *Prehistoric Policies* with Ben Elliott (@archsoundscapes.bsky.social), Alice Rudge (@alicerudge.bsky.social) and me. Contact me with queries.

Pls share!

my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
November 13, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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mattpope.bsky.social
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
🦣🧪🏺
tinyurl.com/5duy6twh
Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story. Coordinated by UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology departments and drawing on expertise from across the University and other institutions, it will provide you with training in the specialisms of your choice, while also ensuring you are introduced to the wider scope of approaches to the study of human evolution.  Having run now for over 15 years, we have PaPa alumni actively leading a new generation of human origins research across the world. Our programme is a proven springboard to PhD programmes, careers in academia, archaeological science, specialist archaeological fieldwork, science media and much more.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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karengregory.bsky.social
The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.

This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.

www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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dri.ie
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!

Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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discoveryprogramme.bsky.social
The Discovery Programme's Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next month, on Thursday 4th December

"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 via Eventbrite:
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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November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
graemewarren.bsky.social
This is not as helpful as Pickle thinks it is.
November 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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bcgemma.bsky.social
The male Isabelline Shrike in Co Wexford today- an extremely rare vagrant and only the first ever adult male recorded in Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishBirding
November 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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gregjenner.bsky.social
Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too!

Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
The Stone Age Runs Wild at Star Carr: An evening with Greg Jenner and Nicky Milner
Join Greg Jenner and Professor Nicky Milner for a Stone Age talk, covering Star Carr and Greg's book, Totally Chaotic History: The Stone Age Runs Wild.
www.york.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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bajr-badger.bsky.social
www.bajr.org/deep-concern...

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has found itself embroiled in a series of controversies, shaking public confidence in Scotland’s most important cultural body

Its shocking to see the impact on the staff

It breaks my heart.
Deep Concerns for Historic Environment Scotland - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
By David Connolly and Hana Kdolska, BAJR Admins Controversy, Accountability, and a Way Forward Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has found itself embroiled in a series of controversies over the past...
www.bajr.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
graemewarren.bsky.social
An important summary of the sorry state of senior leadership at HES with significant implications for archaeology and heritage.
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Much to unpick... "Pezzuti’s interest is in coolness as ... economic labour or production. His hypothesis is that – just as tribal societies prize skilled hunters, who provide food for the group – today’s information economy turns on creativity and innovation."

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Can I learn to be cool – even though I am garrulous, swotty and wear no-show socks?
An international study found cool people are extroverted, open, hedonistic, adventurous, autonomous and powerful. At best, I have three of these traits. Could I change that?
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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graemewarren.bsky.social
Our MSc Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Campus based, FT/PT) is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below. Contact me to discuss. Please share!

www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Our MSc Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology (Campus based, FT/PT) is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below. Contact me to discuss. Please share!

www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Our distance learning (on line) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below or contact me to discuss. Please share!

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social

www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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aidanosullivan.bsky.social
“Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100”

8th Annual National Monuments Service Archaeology Conference
Organised by Wordwell | Archaeology Ireland.

Trinity College, Dublin, 18 October 2025

youtu.be/NQLhzY3pl0Y?...
Professor Aidan O'Sullivan - Within Without – The Archaeology of Partitions
YouTube video by National Monuments Service
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October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
graemewarren.bsky.social
Fantastic news! Very well deserved recognition.
newcastleuni.bsky.social Newcastle University @newcastleuni.bsky.social · 27d
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕

Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Professor Chantal Conneller sitting on a pebble beach gazing towards the sea, with rocky formations in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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newcastleuni.bsky.social
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕

Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Professor Chantal Conneller sitting on a pebble beach gazing towards the sea, with rocky formations in the background.
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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cairngormwanderer.bsky.social
From a lonely place to die to views to die for. The murder of Sgt Arthur Davies. #Cairngorms
cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com/2025/10/24/s...
Scene of the crime
There’s not, to be honest, much of a view from the site. The foreground is all low-growing heather and heath, with a couple of rounded heathery hills framing an unremarkable glen disappearing down …
cairngormwanderer.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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arctic-glacial.bsky.social
Not a place I expected to publish, but great to see the summary of our geology-archaeology collaboration is so popular. Open Access summary paper linked below. Thanks to the IRC, now @researchireland.ie, for supporting this work.
livunipress.bsky.social Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 26d
Most read in HGR:
'Looking Up for prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeological sites in mountain landscapes in Europe' by @arctic-glacial.bsky.social, @diggermann.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social et al.
Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/HGR-EUR
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM