Bristol Anthropology & Archaeology
@bristolantharch.bsky.social
Department of Anthropology & Archaeology at the University of Bristol
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Want to have a look at our department (and some flint knapping)?
Have look below👇📽️
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.
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
academic.oup.com
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
Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Kit Opie, a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology 📺
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Tune in to hear from Kit Opie, a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology 📺
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
July 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Time for you to get to know another of our staff members!
Tune in to hear from Kit Opie, a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology 📺
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Tune in to hear from Kit Opie, a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology 📺
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Congratulations to Lorena and colleagues! 👏 🙌
📢 Happy to have this paper published today!
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Thank you to Loren Davis and the team for their collaboration. Sampling for this work in Baja California was a highlight 🏖️☀️😎
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Geoarchaeology of Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Occupation at the EL Peregrino and Colina Castor Sites on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
This study presents the geoarchaeological and chronometric analysis of two Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene archaeological sites: El Peregrino (PAIC-88) and Colina Castor (PAIC-91), located on Cedr...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Congratulations to Lorena and colleagues! 👏 🙌
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'This inquiry promises to listen to survivors, without filtering the parts that are uncomfortable to hear.'
Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Daniel Taggart consider the Casey Report in a new piece for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/what-the-new...
Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Daniel Taggart consider the Casey Report in a new piece for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/what-the-new...
What the new grooming gangs inquiry must do to put victims before politics
Casey’s audit highlights the huge gaps around ethnicity data.
theconversation.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
'This inquiry promises to listen to survivors, without filtering the parts that are uncomfortable to hear.'
Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Daniel Taggart consider the Casey Report in a new piece for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/what-the-new...
Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Daniel Taggart consider the Casey Report in a new piece for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/what-the-new...
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Interested in Archaeological Science in Latin America?
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
@fransantanas.bsky.social and I edited a @archaeometry.bsky.social issue on this topic.
Thanks to the journal/@chirikure.bsky.social for the opportunity & the amazing authors who contributed!
Check out the intro 👇
doi.org/10.1111/arcm...
Archaeological science in Latin America
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
June 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Ever wondered what #Anthropology is all about? Let our staff tell you!
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ever wondered what #Anthropology is all about? Let our staff tell you!
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
'Anthropology is hugely relevant to building a more sustainable, fairer future for everyone.'
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Katherine Fitzpatrick & Dr @alixdietzel.bsky.social are at the Bonn Climate Change Conference this week
Read about the visit 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Katherine Fitzpatrick & Dr @alixdietzel.bsky.social are at the Bonn Climate Change Conference this week
Read about the visit 👇
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...
June 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
The time has come for you all to meet our fearless leader, Prof Mark Gillings, a brilliant archaeologist 🏮🗡
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
June 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The time has come for you all to meet our fearless leader, Prof Mark Gillings, a brilliant archaeologist 🏮🗡
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Congratulations to @drsarahmyers.bsky.social, our own Mhairi and colleagues on this paper! 🙌
Check it out through the link 👇
Check it out through the link 👇
This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influence and social selection on preference for cutting female relatives using data from 5163 Ethiopian Arsi Oromo adults. @drsarahmyers.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social clustering of preference for female genital mutilation/cutting in south-central Ethiopia - Nature Human Behaviour
Recent estimates indicate that half of Ethiopian girls aged 15–19 years have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGMC). This socio-centric social network study estimates the social influenc...
www.nature.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Congratulations to @drsarahmyers.bsky.social, our own Mhairi and colleagues on this paper! 🙌
Check it out through the link 👇
Check it out through the link 👇
Interested in some good ol' flint knapping?
Check out our PhD student, Nick, teaching our undergraduate cohort all about it 😎
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Check out our PhD student, Nick, teaching our undergraduate cohort all about it 😎
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
June 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Interested in some good ol' flint knapping?
Check out our PhD student, Nick, teaching our undergraduate cohort all about it 😎
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Check out our PhD student, Nick, teaching our undergraduate cohort all about it 😎
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺
Next up is @drcamimorelli.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at our department.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Next up is @drcamimorelli.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at our department.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
May 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺
Next up is @drcamimorelli.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at our department.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Next up is @drcamimorelli.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at our department.
Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.
Well done to the organisers! 🙌🏽
It's a fantastic experience organising this year's symposium with the team. Shout out to my org teammates Imogen and Juewei; and thanks to all who participated!
Some images from our Postgraduate Symposium last week!
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
May 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Well done to the organisers! 🙌🏽
Some images from our Postgraduate Symposium last week!
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Some images from our Postgraduate Symposium last week!
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏
Congrats Lorena and colleagues! 🙌🏽
New paper alert 🚨 Led by Joe Hirst from Reading University. Step in and have a look 👇🏽
‘Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
‘Localised land-use and maize agriculture by the pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture in Lowland Bolivia’
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Congrats Lorena and colleagues! 🙌🏽