Bristol Anthropology & Archaeology
@bristolantharch.bsky.social
Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol
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Video created by the wonderful Naia Lewendon-Wicks & Bianca Li, 3rd-year Film & TV BA students at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Have look below👇📽️
Video created by the wonderful Naia Lewendon-Wicks & Bianca Li, 3rd-year Film & TV BA students at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Yesterday, Dr Fulminante hosted a special interdisciplinary BAARS workshop 'Beyond binary: navigating the spectrum of gender in the Past to disseminate EDIB in the Present'. Here some pics from the event. Thank you to all the wonderful speakers and contributors!
January 29, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Yesterday, Dr Fulminante hosted a special interdisciplinary BAARS workshop 'Beyond binary: navigating the spectrum of gender in the Past to disseminate EDIB in the Present'. Here some pics from the event. Thank you to all the wonderful speakers and contributors!
Congratulations to Dr Becerra-Valdivia and her colleagues on this new publication! 🐢 🌊
So happy to announce this new publication on Marine Biology involving 14C & turtle conservation 🔊👇
The work was led by the brilliant R.A.Prof Bethan Linscott (@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social) & included some of the nicest colleagues one could hope for (e.g., @mattrpharris.bsky.social)!
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The work was led by the brilliant R.A.Prof Bethan Linscott (@miamirosenstiel.bsky.social) & included some of the nicest colleagues one could hope for (e.g., @mattrpharris.bsky.social)!
rdcu.be/e1b3t
January 29, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Congratulations to Dr Becerra-Valdivia and her colleagues on this new publication! 🐢 🌊
Reminder for tomorrow at BAARS 👇
See you there!
See you there!
January 27, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Reminder for tomorrow at BAARS 👇
See you there!
See you there!
Congratulations to Prof Mhairi Gibson and Dr Hannelore Van Bavel for their new publication!
This work is a broad review on how anthropologists are contributing to understanding on FGMC.
Read through link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aman...
This work is a broad review on how anthropologists are contributing to understanding on FGMC.
Read through link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aman...
January 27, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Congratulations to Prof Mhairi Gibson and Dr Hannelore Van Bavel for their new publication!
This work is a broad review on how anthropologists are contributing to understanding on FGMC.
Read through link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aman...
This work is a broad review on how anthropologists are contributing to understanding on FGMC.
Read through link 👉 doi.org/10.1111/aman...
How monogamous are humans compared to other animals?
Check out this BBC interview with @kitopie.bsky.social to learn more!
Check out this BBC interview with @kitopie.bsky.social to learn more!
December 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
How monogamous are humans compared to other animals?
Check out this BBC interview with @kitopie.bsky.social to learn more!
Check out this BBC interview with @kitopie.bsky.social to learn more!
Recent research by @kitopie.bsky.social also discussed in The Archaeology Channel 👇🏽👏🏽
www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/...
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/...
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Recent research by @kitopie.bsky.social also discussed in The Archaeology Channel 👇🏽👏🏽
www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/...
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/...
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Nice to have heard Kit on the radio yesterday discussing his recent publication on @nathumbehav.nature.com!
Congrats on all the engagement 🙌 🎉
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Congrats on all the engagement 🙌 🎉
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Interview (from 17.00) for the Briefing with Monocle_Radio
on State formation: grain, tax and writing - from research (with @quentinatkinson.bsky.social) @nathumbehav.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41....
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
on State formation: grain, tax and writing - from research (with @quentinatkinson.bsky.social) @nathumbehav.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41....
monocle.com/radio/shows/...
The Gulf states look towards a joint defensive strategy at the 46th GCC summit - Monocle
As Gulf leaders convene for the 46th GCC summit during a tense time for the region, we discuss what role...
monocle.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Nice to have heard Kit on the radio yesterday discussing his recent publication on @nathumbehav.nature.com!
Congrats on all the engagement 🙌 🎉
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Congrats on all the engagement 🙌 🎉
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Thank you to Dr Adam van Casteren (@adamvanc.bsky.social) for a great (& very active) BAARS talk today on human and ape biomechanics 🚶🏾♀️ 🦍!!
Our seminar series resumes next term so watch this space for more amazing speakers ☝🏽
Our seminar series resumes next term so watch this space for more amazing speakers ☝🏽
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thank you to Dr Adam van Casteren (@adamvanc.bsky.social) for a great (& very active) BAARS talk today on human and ape biomechanics 🚶🏾♀️ 🦍!!
Our seminar series resumes next term so watch this space for more amazing speakers ☝🏽
Our seminar series resumes next term so watch this space for more amazing speakers ☝🏽
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I am pleased to share that my review of David Pendery’s Transnational Taiwan: Crossing Borders into the 21st Century has now been published in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies.
This marks my first academic publication after joining @bristolantharch.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1163/2468...
This marks my first academic publication after joining @bristolantharch.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1163/2468...
November 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I am pleased to share that my review of David Pendery’s Transnational Taiwan: Crossing Borders into the 21st Century has now been published in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies.
This marks my first academic publication after joining @bristolantharch.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1163/2468...
This marks my first academic publication after joining @bristolantharch.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.1163/2468...
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'It may feel worlds apart, but the challenges and choices facing states today have been playing out since the dawn of the earliest states, thousands of years ago.'
Dr @kitopie.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) writes in a new piece for The Conversation
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
Dr @kitopie.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) writes in a new piece for The Conversation
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
'It may feel worlds apart, but the challenges and choices facing states today have been playing out since the dawn of the earliest states, thousands of years ago.'
Dr @kitopie.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) writes in a new piece for The Conversation
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
Dr @kitopie.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) writes in a new piece for The Conversation
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
Here’s @theconversation.com piece accompanying the recent paper by Kit and colleague. Check it out👇🏽
We (with @drqueue.bsky.social) explain the process in @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-real-rea....
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Here’s @theconversation.com piece accompanying the recent paper by Kit and colleague. Check it out👇🏽
Congratulations to our own, @kitopie.bsky.social, and his colleague on this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper on the role of cereal grains in the creation of early states! 🙌👏
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.
State formation across cultures and the role of grain, intensive agriculture, taxation and writing - Nature Human Behaviour
Opie and Atkinson conduct a global phylogenetic analysis of 868 cultures and find evidence indicating that cereal grain cultivation, not agricultural surplus, drove state formation. Their findings als...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Congratulations to our own, @kitopie.bsky.social, and his colleague on this new @nathumbehav.nature.com paper on the role of cereal grains in the creation of early states! 🙌👏
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
Clink on the post below to access and enjoy 👇
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🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Jonathan Stamp, former consultant on the award-winning HBO series Rome, for a public lecture on Bringing Ancient Rome to Life
The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g
@clahbristol.bsky.social
The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g
@clahbristol.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Jonathan Stamp, former consultant on the award-winning HBO series Rome, for a public lecture on Bringing Ancient Rome to Life
The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g
@clahbristol.bsky.social
The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g
@clahbristol.bsky.social
Everyone who visited our department today during the Open Day got to vote for their favourite staff/student pumpkin 🎃
The votes are in and the clear winner is… Fiona’s moai 🗿 from Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)! 🏆
Congrats, F! 🙌🏽 👏🏽
Upon hearing the good news, Fiona said: “Life goal achieved!”
The votes are in and the clear winner is… Fiona’s moai 🗿 from Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)! 🏆
Congrats, F! 🙌🏽 👏🏽
Upon hearing the good news, Fiona said: “Life goal achieved!”
November 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Everyone who visited our department today during the Open Day got to vote for their favourite staff/student pumpkin 🎃
The votes are in and the clear winner is… Fiona’s moai 🗿 from Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)! 🏆
Congrats, F! 🙌🏽 👏🏽
Upon hearing the good news, Fiona said: “Life goal achieved!”
The votes are in and the clear winner is… Fiona’s moai 🗿 from Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island)! 🏆
Congrats, F! 🙌🏽 👏🏽
Upon hearing the good news, Fiona said: “Life goal achieved!”
On Halloween, our staff and graduate students carve Anth & Arch themed pumpkins (& one squash).
Spooky stuff!
Spooky stuff!
October 31, 2025 at 9:01 AM
On Halloween, our staff and graduate students carve Anth & Arch themed pumpkins (& one squash).
Spooky stuff!
Spooky stuff!
Some pics from today during the #Archaeology University Day at the British Academy in London 📍
Lovely day to meet colleagues and potential students! Thank you to the organisers for a great event and to our staff, @helenfewlass.bsky.social & @lorenabecval.bsky.social, for representing us! 🙏🏽 🙌🏽
Lovely day to meet colleagues and potential students! Thank you to the organisers for a great event and to our staff, @helenfewlass.bsky.social & @lorenabecval.bsky.social, for representing us! 🙏🏽 🙌🏽
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Some pics from today during the #Archaeology University Day at the British Academy in London 📍
Lovely day to meet colleagues and potential students! Thank you to the organisers for a great event and to our staff, @helenfewlass.bsky.social & @lorenabecval.bsky.social, for representing us! 🙏🏽 🙌🏽
Lovely day to meet colleagues and potential students! Thank you to the organisers for a great event and to our staff, @helenfewlass.bsky.social & @lorenabecval.bsky.social, for representing us! 🙏🏽 🙌🏽
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📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
Congratulations to our own Dr Becerra-Valdivia and colleagues on this new publication!
🔈Happy Friday and pre-weekend news!
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our paper on the chronology and residue analysis of a key Amazonian archaeological site, Teotônio, has just been published in JAS!
Massive congrats to McKenzie and thanks to all the co-authors for their work on this 🙌
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site
Teotônio is a pre-Columbian riverine archaeological site located in southwestern Amazonia, in a region with diverse cultural traditions and linguistic…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Congratulations to our own Dr Becerra-Valdivia and colleagues on this new publication!
📢 Call for abstracts!
October 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📢 Call for abstracts!
Do check out this new paper by our own Mhairi Gibson & colleagues!
This study has important information for policy makers seeking to change attitudes and norms to violence against women and girls 👇
This study has important information for policy makers seeking to change attitudes and norms to violence against women and girls 👇
New research with Mhairi Gibson, Eshetu Gurmu, @alexalvergne.bsky.social @danielredhead.bsky.social & Arsi Oromo participants! @bristolantharch.bsky.social @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...
Gender-biased clustering of attitudes towards physical intimate partner violence: A social network analysis in south-central Ethiopia
Abstract. Changing social norms, shared beliefs about what is acceptable, is a key focus of global health campaigns aimed at ending intimate partner violen
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September 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Do check out this new paper by our own Mhairi Gibson & colleagues!
This study has important information for policy makers seeking to change attitudes and norms to violence against women and girls 👇
This study has important information for policy makers seeking to change attitudes and norms to violence against women and girls 👇
Congratulations Rayane!
A Postdoctoral Researcher on the Infracursions Project (PI @amypenfield.bsky.social), Rayane has been recently featured in the Brazilian media as a ‘scholar to watch’, being commended for leading work on sustainability.
Check it out:
www.estadao.com.br/150-anos/ter...
A Postdoctoral Researcher on the Infracursions Project (PI @amypenfield.bsky.social), Rayane has been recently featured in the Brazilian media as a ‘scholar to watch’, being commended for leading work on sustainability.
Check it out:
www.estadao.com.br/150-anos/ter...
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Congratulations Rayane!
A Postdoctoral Researcher on the Infracursions Project (PI @amypenfield.bsky.social), Rayane has been recently featured in the Brazilian media as a ‘scholar to watch’, being commended for leading work on sustainability.
Check it out:
www.estadao.com.br/150-anos/ter...
A Postdoctoral Researcher on the Infracursions Project (PI @amypenfield.bsky.social), Rayane has been recently featured in the Brazilian media as a ‘scholar to watch’, being commended for leading work on sustainability.
Check it out:
www.estadao.com.br/150-anos/ter...
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🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants!
Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
September: erc-grants | News and features | University of Bristol
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September 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants!
Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...
Congratulations to our very own, @helenfewlass.bsky.social, on her ERC Starting Grant win!!!
We’re proud and happy! Can’t wait to see you and your new team do amazing science 🧪 🙌🏽
We’re proud and happy! Can’t wait to see you and your new team do amazing science 🧪 🙌🏽
Very excited to receive an ERC Starting Grant to study the earliest archaeological and biomolecular evidence of Homo sapiens in NW Europe
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
Watch this space for new positions in Bristol in 2026! 🎉
#HorizonEurope #ERCStG
📣 The ERC Starting Grant call results are out!
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
Find out which early-career researchers will receive funding this year, what they will be investigating, where they will be based... plus lots of other #ERCStG facts & figures for 2025!
➡️ buff.ly/IsafuFh
#FrontierResearch 🇪🇺#EUfunded #HorizonEurope
September 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Congratulations to our very own, @helenfewlass.bsky.social, on her ERC Starting Grant win!!!
We’re proud and happy! Can’t wait to see you and your new team do amazing science 🧪 🙌🏽
We’re proud and happy! Can’t wait to see you and your new team do amazing science 🧪 🙌🏽
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'There is much more to be found beneath the waves'
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Isabella Gilmour comments on the discovery of artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus in a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/new-finds-sh...
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Isabella Gilmour comments on the discovery of artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus in a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/new-finds-sh...
New finds shed light on Canopus – the ancient Egyptian port city lost to the sea
Statues continue to emerge, offering clues as to the physical appearance of the ancient city.
theconversation.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
'There is much more to be found beneath the waves'
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Isabella Gilmour comments on the discovery of artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus in a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/new-finds-sh...
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Isabella Gilmour comments on the discovery of artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus in a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com
theconversation.com/new-finds-sh...
Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
July 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch).
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social