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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

@ansoc-erc.bsky.social

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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

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 · Nov 17

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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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 5d

Visiting Knockroe Passage Tomb for the Winter Solstice is always a lovely way to mark the year.

Here's a short video of this morning's experience 🔆

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Solstice

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 5d

Our UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture (CEAMC) has come on a lot since this short introductory film was made, but it’s nice to look back at it m.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR0...

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: Making, Understanding, Storytelling

YouTube video by UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 6d

Wondering how to watch the Winter Solstice livestream from Newgrange?
Our short how-to video guides you step by step.
📅 21 Dec
⏰ 8.40am
🌅 Live from inside the chamber
Save the link and tune in: gov.ie/solstice
#WinterSolstice #Newgrange #ShareTheSolstice #OPW

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Association for Environmental Archaeology @envarch.bsky.social · 6d

We are pleased to announce the 46th conference of the #AEA will be held in Spring at the University of Lancashire, between 7th & 9th May 2026.

Details: envarch.net/conferences

📸Co-host Dr Jennifer Jones presenting at the @unistavanger.bsky.social conference this month.

#environmentalarchaeology

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Sidestone Press @sidestone.bsky.social · 7d

Have you downloaded your copy of Harnessing Horses yet? Better do it before they run off!!!

www.sidestone.com/books/harnes...

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

🏛️ Announcing our new MSc and GradDip in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD School of Archaeology and UCD School of Classics.
Join us in Dublin, Ireland, next academic year to take our MSc in Mediterranean Archaeology.

📝 Registration opens in January. For more details: www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 7d

The Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange is one of Ireland’s most powerful connections to the past✨

This RTÉ Brainstorm article by Terry Clavin of the @dib.ie (based at @ria.ie) explores how archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly rediscovered the alignment in the 1960s.

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How Newgrange's spectacular Solstice light show was rediscovered

Those who flock to Newgrange on 21 December owe much to the excavation work of archaeologist Michael J O'Kelly in the 1960s

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 7d

A great start to the weekend of the winter solstice!
What a morning at Newgrange today.

The livestream link now available - be sure tune in on the morning of 21 December at 8:40am.
🔗 gov.ie/solstice 👈save it, share it, join in!

#ShareTheSolstice #NewgrangeSolstice #WinterSolstice
📸 OPW Guides

Sun rising behind a large standing stone on a grassy landscape under a clear sky at Newgrange Monument.

Sun rising behind a large standing stone on a grassy landscape under a clear sky at Newgrange Monument.

Sun rising behind a large standing stone on a grassy landscape under a clear sky at Newgrange Monument.

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 7d

Did the megalithic monument of Newgrange inter an Irish king?
Whilst the people in the tomb were likely 'special', this need not equate to rigid social stratification and a hereditary elite. Social identity in Neolithic Ireland was likely highly fluid.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Newgrange before, during and after excavation (top: April 1950 © Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland; middle: March 1968, Howard Goldbaum (voicesfromthedawn.com); bottom: Tjp Finn, CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 8d

The Cordis page for my ERC project HERDPATH is live! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...

The genomic consequences of domestication for ruminant pathogen evolution and herd diversity across ten millennia | HERDPATH | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS | European Commission

Palaeogenomics has transformed our understanding of the genetic consequences of domestication, particularly for livestock species, first brought into the anthropological sphere ~10,000 years ago in So...

cordis.europa.eu

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Office of Public Works @opwireland.bsky.social · 9d

The #WinterSolstice livestream link is now available
Join us on 21 Dec @ 8:40 am to witness the solstice sunrise live from inside the #Newgrange chamber, weather permitting.
Save the link now and be part of this extraordinary moment.
🔗www.gov.ie/solstice
#ShareTheSolstice

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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · 10d

“Scientists must walk a fine line between silence and sensationalism when they share their conclusions with society. Archaeologists, in particular, should create space for both evidence and imagination.”

Read more: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

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Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social · 10d

apt closing from my last SAPIENS story “What archaeology asks of everyone is an openness to alternate worlds. An understanding that your society, with its ways of working, worshipping, learning, loving—even knowing a dog—is just one permutation of endless human and beyond human possibilities.”

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Gürkan Ergin @ivanhoe76.bsky.social · 11d

Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Pet Cemetery in Egypt indiandefencereview.com/2000-year-ol...

Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Pet Cemetery in Egypt

An archaeological discovery in Egypt has uncovered an ancient pet cemetery, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between humans and animals in the past.

indiandefencereview.com

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 11d

Celebrate the Winter Solstice at the National Museum of Ireland!
✨ Discover the alignment of passage tombs like Newgrange and explore Bronze Age artifacts-lunulae and sun discs-linked to solar symbols.
📍 National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street
📅 Friday, 19th December
⏰ 13:30
youtu.be/q4S1ClJCYyg

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AaRC @aarc-community.bsky.social · 11d

For those of you who couldn't attend our #RemAaRCs seminar last week but are still interested on the topic, you can check it out now on our Youtube channel: youtu.be/XFIsZyVHg8U

RemAaRCs: on mutualism. The Science of Interrelatedness.

YouTube video by AaRC

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OGU Bristol @ogu-bristol.bsky.social · 11d

Due to popular demand, we will be extending the abstract submission for UKAS to after Christmas (8th January). Wishing a nice Winter break to everybody.

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations to all of the #CurrentArchaeologyAwards nominees!
Cast your vote here: bit.ly/48zAZp3

We're also excited for the Current Archaeology Live conference next year which includes our @nts-archaeology.bsky.social colleagues on their their award winning #PioneeringSpirit whisky project!

Archaeology Awards Voting - Current Archaeology

Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

archaeology.co.uk

Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16d

ANSOC’s Nóra Nic Aoidh presenting her early results from the study of Bronze Age animal figurines from the northern Carpathian Basin!!! 🐖🐎🐄🐏🐐🐕

#animals #archaeology
@nnicaoidh.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 16d

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 16d

UCD School of Archaeology PhD/MLitt Research Day kicks off, an exciting range of topics being explored by our researchers

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 17d

Listen now on your favourite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc, or on our Abarta Heritage website, where you can find shownotes and links to the papers:
www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult...

Kinship, Culture, & Death in Neolithic Ireland Amplify Archaeology

In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Dr Jessica Smyth, Dr Neil Carlin and Dr Susan Greaney about Neolithic Ireland

www.abartaheritage.ie

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 17d

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

In this episode I chatted with Dr Jessica Smith, Dr Neil Carlin, and @suegreaney.bsky.social about the important recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, death, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.

An aerial view of Newgrange with the branding for Amplify Archaeology Podcast, and text that reads: 'Kinship, Culture & Death in Neolithic Ireland'

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 19d

#CeilingsOnSunday National Museum Dublin

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 21d

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V...
#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
👉 https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/Vote-for-the-research-project-of-the-year
#VoteNow #IrishHistory

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 22d

Current Archaeology Book of the Year shortlist is out and voting is open! As always there is just too much choice. Individual landscape studies, best practice and John Schofield’s reflections on how archaeologists can help solve the world’s ‘wicked’ problems

Book of the Year 2026 – Nominees - Current Archaeology

Below are some of the publications we feel most deserve to be recognised for their contribution to the field – the nominees for the Book of the Year award. Voting is now open, and all the winners of t...

archaeology.co.uk

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The Discovery Programme @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social · 22d

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain"

Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

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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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 23d

An early Iron Age mule from Catalonia pushes hybrid equid breeding in Europe back centuries. Its bones reveal trade networks, local innovation, and a rapidly changing Mediterranean world. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #IronAge #Equids www.anthropology.net/p/a-hybrid-h...

A Hybrid Hoofprint: How an Early Iron Age Mule Redraws the Map of Mediterranean Exchange

A newly analyzed equid from Catalonia hints that hybrid animal breeding, long tied to later empires, had deeper and more complex roots in the western Mediterranean.

www.anthropology.net

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 23d

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!

This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls

This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 23d

🎅NMS Christmas Draw
Win 2 copies of #RoundTowersOfIreland 2026 calendar.
Produced by our NMS Photographic Archive Unit.
50 lucky people will be drawn at random on 16 Dec.
One entry per person w/ full postal address to photoarchive@housing.gov.ie
Ádh mór!
#HeritageWellbeing
@opwireland.bsky.social

ALT - Cover image of 2026 NMS calendar featuring St. Mary’s Abbey, Ferns, Co. Wexford
©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 23d

Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!

Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain).

Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...

www.biorxiv.org