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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe
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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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The team is ready ✅
The venues are still standing ✅
The programme is live ✅
The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅

Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025

Spread the word and we'll see you in November!
bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

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I'll be presenting at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social at the School of Biological Sciences, 2nd December, 1pm - please come along to hear about #aDNA, domestication, and disease!

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Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation
Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall
academic.oup.com

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This week the #ANSOC team are putting the final touches to the Bronze Age Forum 2025, which takes place @ucddublin.bsky.social on 14-16 November. Final programme and abstracts are now on bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com A few final tickets remain #BronzeAge
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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Conall’s (mini schnauzer, chief dog of Ireland, etc) photo on the cover of Archaeology Ireland has now been seen in Dublin bookshops and the library of the Royal Irish Academy!
@ria.ie

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Come and join us on our special event RemAaRCs: on Mutualism on December 5th! We'll have 2 great speakers showing us how humans and animals can life together and thrive. Registration on the QR code.

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Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social

📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm

👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

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“No Sanctuary

It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.
Death mask of harvest,
l mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night
We ring and stare into unhallowed light”
Seamus Heaney

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📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk

👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...

📸 Fenscapes Team

@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

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Hotter than the fires of hell alright, and dramatic when it's being done, heat, smoke, action - images of iron-smelting at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social

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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

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Free community fediscience, please boost!
Everybody welcome LIVE and ZOOM
🌔Tues Nov 4 🌕 6:30pm
'The Fire of the Jaguar. Problems with perspectivism'
Chris Knight

LIVE Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor,
UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
ZOOM ID 952 8554 1412 passcode Wawilak

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Fantastic news! Very well deserved recognition.
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.

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🎉 Free Open Access Days!

Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇

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'Games of the Folk: Traditional Games and the Struggle for Heritage'
Dr Tom Fabian, UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science

Research seminar jointly hosted by Irish Folklore and Irish Studies.

An Teanglann (B211 Newman Building), 3pm Tuesday, 21 October
UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.

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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

@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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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.
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...
🚨 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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#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
“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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📕#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
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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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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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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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!