Joanna Brück

UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 7h

The full schedule for the upcoming Bronze Age Forum (Dublin 14-16 November), including paper abstracts and speaker biographies, is now available on the BAF website:
bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 1d

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
The full schedule for the upcoming Bronze Age Forum, including paper abstracts and speaker biographies, is now available on the BAF website (bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com)! #BronzeAge

bronze age forum 2025

bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 1d

Last Saturday the ARCH20170-Discovering Ireland fieldtrip lead by Dr Ryan Lash assisted by Dr Anita Radini, Meaghan Mackie & Katie Wyse Jackson visited Castledermot monastery, Brownshill megalithic tomb and Rathgall Hillfort. Our thanks to everyone who helped make it a great day out.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

Join us on 23 October for Revealing the Past, a biennial conference on recent archaeological discoveries and research funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social , Historic Environment Division NI, and @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social via RIA grants

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 New paper out today in PNAS!
We report the discovery of prehistoric hunting megastructures on the Karst Plateau (Slovenia/Italy) – several-kilometre-long dry-stone systems used to trap wild herds
doi.org/10.1073/pnas....

Prehistoric hunting megastructures in the Adriatic hinterland | PNAS

Airborne laser scanning survey of the Karst Plateau in the Adriatic hinterland has revealed four monumental dry-stone structures, characterized by ...

doi.org

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 2d

#A&K Alive & Kicking helping n.10! This is an article by one of our longest members, Angelos Hadjikoumis. It is based on his PhD dissertation, undertaken in Sheffield. This is highly relevant ethnoarchaeological work. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Traditional pig herding practices in southwest Iberia: Questions of scale and zooarchaeological implications

Archaeological interpretations are interwoven with analogical reasoning. This paper presents a large volume of ethnographic data on traditional pig hu…

www.sciencedirect.com

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 2d

“Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present”

The exhibition was co-created by Prof. Joanna Brück of UCD School of Archaeology & seven people who have come to Ireland as refugees. It will be on view in Kilmainham Gaol Museum until 31 st January 2026 and thereafter around Dublin

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 4d

📕#BookReview

Hannah Chazin's 'Live stock and dead things' reconsiders the idea that domestic herd animals were passive economic resources in the past, investigating how living and working with animals shaped society, economy, ritual and politics 1/2

(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Cover of the book reviewed with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 5d

Grant Spotlight: Archaeological Archives Research Grant

Thanks to AARG funding, Dr Smyth’s research at Fourknocks passage tomb is transforming how we understand Neolithic Ireland.

Apply for AARG 2025 funding until 15 Oct: https://www.ria.ie/grants/archaeological-archives-research-grant/

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 6d

All the best to Samuel Kinirons, @researchireland.ie PhD Scholar @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and the other presenters at the Irish Association of Professional Osteoarchaeologists (IAPO) seminar on 1 Nov 2025, 9.45am-4.45pm, University College Cork.

@ucddublin.bsky.social, @researchireland.ie

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 7d

You are warmly invited to The Discovery Programme’s Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025:
"Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain”

It will be delivered by Prof Joanna Brück of @ucddublin.bsky.social

Sign up here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

Thurs 4 Dec
7.30pm
Online
Free

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

www.eventbrite.com

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 7d

Let's go mad for mutualism! Join @aarc-community.bsky.social for a very exciting event on December 5th 2-4pm London time, were Yvette Running Horse Collin and Rob Dunn will discuss the science of interspecies relationships (featuring some 🐎 #aDNA).

QR code -> sign up for our seminar mailing list!

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 8d

I love archaeological reconstructions - and they’re always fun to deconstruct - what is this artists image saying about power, gender, status, etc, and how do these images create thoughts in our head, and how do we watch for their influence on us - they’re active not passive

Nicola Scheyhing M.A. @prehistoryteller.bsky.social · 8d

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 8d

The Animal #aDNA Research Community is looking for new members to its steering committee!

If you are an ECR and interested in the field, we would love to have you on board. We particularly would value committee representation from outside of Europe.

@aarc-community.bsky.social

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 9d

#A&K. With Alive & Kicking n.9 we would like to celebrate the work of a wonderful friend and colleague who left us far too soon. Here is her influential paper on donkey domestication. This is for you, Stine. We miss you very much. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

www.pnas.org

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 12d

Two superb lectures from UCD Archaeology ‘camp’ at Friends of Medieval Dublin conference at Trinity College. Well, Russell is now at University of St Andrews, but was a @researchireland.ie post-doc with us, and Sam is working on his @researchireland.ie PhD on Viking burials

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 16d

Ever wondered what secrets lie behind flamingos, fossils & glass beetles?
Step into late night at the Dead Zoo Lab & meet the experts
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks
🕕 Thurs 2 Oct | 6–7:30PM
🎟️ Free | Drop-in | All Ages
No booking needed – just curiosity
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 16d

“Time and tides: archaeological secrets of the Shannon & Fergus estuary mudflats from prehistory to modern times”

Limericks Built Heritage: 8th Series of Exploratory Lectures
Woodlands Hotel, Adare, 8pm, October 1st 2025

Looking forward to this, fond memories of a special place & time in my life

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 17d

Announcing the launch of new exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present” at Kilmainham Gaol, showcasing the precious things that refugees have brought with them to Ireland, and the moving stories of courage, resilience, love and hope that these objects have to tell.

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Jolijn Erven @jolijnerven.bsky.social · 17d

Interested in goats 🐐? Read our pre-print on ancient Irish goats and their connection to the Old Irish goat breed

Just look at this dashing individual, courtesy of the Old Irish Goat society

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 18d

Families Join us for an Open Day: Words on the Wave – Ireland & St. Gallen exhibition
🗓️ Sat 4 Oct | 11.00–16.00
📍 NMI, Kildare St
Talks: Maeve Sikora (11:30), Dr Ó Riain (12:30), Prof Ó Cróinín (14:30)
Take part in free Workshops & handle replica artefacts
🎟️ Free admission
museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...

An Incipit (opening letter) with two birds from the St. Gallen manuscript Priscian Institutiones Grammaticae, Cod. Sang 904, p. 25. © Stiftsbibliothek St Gallen.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 18d

Very happy to see our pre-print on ancient Irish goat genetics on bioRxiv #aDNA #spiergorm

I want to acknowledge this was only possible through the work of the late Dr. Judith Findlater, along with Prof. Eileen Murphy at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.

Old Goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland

The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5,900 years ago, and remains a part of the island's biocultural heritage. Howev...

www.biorxiv.org

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Suzanne Pilaar Birch @suziebirch.bsky.social · 20d

New paper out today, emphasizing the importance and utility of museum collections in new research, using bones stored at Harvard for 50 years! How did herd management change over thousands of years at Tepe Yahya, an important archaeological site in Iran? journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Large-scale carbon and nitrogen isotopic investigations into caprine diet and management at Tepe Yahya, southeastern Iran

Tepe Yahya, a small urban center in southeastern Iran, was embedded in cross-cultural exchange with the many entities of southwestern Asia. Besides an understanding that caprines dominated the animal ...

journals.plos.org

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 20d

While in 2022-2023, with the new job at MOLA, I struggled to publish -I had to learn a lot of new things!- these recent months have been more productive, and a few things have recently came out. I am particularly happy that this article about personhood in the Argar, in the Bronze Age...

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 20d

What's that? The story of East Asian pig domestication as told through ancient DNA? Yes please! Congrats to everyone on such a fantastic and overdue story! Pigs are so great.
doi.org/10.1093/molb...

Ancient Genomics Reveals the Origin, Dispersal, and Human Management of East Asian Domestic Pigs

Abstract. Pigs are the most commercially important modern livestock animal in East Asia. Numerous aspects of their domestication history remain unclear, ho

doi.org

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 22d

“The Cult of St Leo in Inishark: A Creative Heritage”
Dr Ryan Lash, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Presentation as part of the Dublin Festival of History at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin 2.
3 October 2025, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/the-cu...

@nlireland.bsky.social

‘…the development of Leo’s cult from the devotions of early medieval monks to the picnics, pilgrimages, and politics of islanders in the 19th and 20th centuries’

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'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social · 22d

Great to meet such a diverse and lively group of archaeologists, ecologists, farmers, geographers etc at our 'Archaeology in Wilding' workshop earlier this month. Thank you @kneppwilding.bsky.social for the beautiful venue, Guerilla Archaeology and all others who contributed! #WildWednesdays

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 23d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield

YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab

www.youtube.com

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Rachel M. Winter @rachelmwinter.bsky.social · 24d

For those of you attending, or interested, in the 11th ICAZ-AGPM meeting (International Council for Archaeozoology-Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics) October 14-17 in Copenhagen, the preliminary programme is available on our website! sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

ICAZ AGPM 2025 - Programme

Preliminary programme

sites.google.com

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 27d

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time.

🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30
📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin

🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

8th National Monuments Service annual archaeology conference

Within|Without: the archaeology of partitions

bit.ly

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