Penny Bickle
@pennybickle.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Orienteerer | Wanderer. Professor of Funerary Archaeology at the University of York, specializing mostly in the central European Neolithic.
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Penny Bickle
@pennybickle.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Hello blue sky! Just a quick post to say hi and that I’m moving over here. Looking forward to posting about archaeology, orienteering, travels and maybe a little about my border terrier puppy Hutton!
What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.
Now the fantastic @pennybickle.bsky.social is taking us through kinship and aDNA in the LBK cultural world, teasing out some key questions posed by ethnographic concepts of kinship that might be answered through the archaeological record #NSGKinship
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.
Want to help more people come to TAG - help us by building a bursary fund.
October 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Want to help more people come to TAG - help us by building a bursary fund.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
You are an early-career scientist interested in social and environmental processes in the past? For our second phase, we are offering 5 positions for postdocs and 9 positions for doctoral students.
Apply now!
All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
#earlycareerscientists #jobs
Apply now!
All the details: www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-r...
#earlycareerscientists #jobs
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Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
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You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
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Bursaries
Cheney Bursaries for StudentsAs a result of a bequest left by Frank Cheney, the Institute has a fund to enable students that attend a UK university to attend RAI Meetings and conferences. Individuals ...
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October 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you?
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa...
@royalarchinst.bsky.social
Oh this is just fantastic news! Congratulations Brenna! Excited to hear more about the research and sounds like there will be two very lucky people joining the project as a PhD and Postdoc.
so... the wellcome trust gave me a £1,000,000? and i didnt even have to hold the world to ransom.
i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3
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i am super excited, going to be recruiting SOON for a phd and a postdoc, and could not do anything without my amazing collaborators <3
www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/grant-t...
Archaeology research project receives £1 million grant to better understand how people got sick
University of Lancashire’s Dr Brenna Hassett receives Wellcome funding to understand how the invention of farming, herding, and sedentism changed human disease.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Oh this is just fantastic news! Congratulations Brenna! Excited to hear more about the research and sounds like there will be two very lucky people joining the project as a PhD and Postdoc.
Donations very welcome to support bursaries at TAG YORK 2025.
We want to increase the accessibility of TAG, and these donations will help us do that.
You can read more about the bursaries here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/
We want to increase the accessibility of TAG, and these donations will help us do that.
You can read more about the bursaries here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/
October 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Donations very welcome to support bursaries at TAG YORK 2025.
We want to increase the accessibility of TAG, and these donations will help us do that.
You can read more about the bursaries here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/
We want to increase the accessibility of TAG, and these donations will help us do that.
You can read more about the bursaries here: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/
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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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#openaccess✅
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
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September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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#openaccess✅
Like voting, register early and often...
📢 Registration is now open! 📢
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
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More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
Sign up for in-person attendance before 31 October 2025 to get Early Bird prices.
Waged delegate fee is £110
Unwaged delegate fee is £40
More information and links to register can be found on the TAG York website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...
September 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Super proud of my PhD student Iseabail Wilks for her first paper (based on her MSc dissertation for the Masters in Funerary Archaeology here at York!). She applies archaethanatology to LBK Burials to under more about the death work that went into inhumations. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16077?...
Invisible death rites in the early Neolithic: Results of an archaeo...
Introduction The Linearbandkeramik (LBK) communities are the first to have practised agriculture in most of central Europe. Originating in Hungary before spreading into an area extending from the P...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Super proud of my PhD student Iseabail Wilks for her first paper (based on her MSc dissertation for the Masters in Funerary Archaeology here at York!). She applies archaethanatology to LBK Burials to under more about the death work that went into inhumations. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16077?...
We have a small number of bursaries for this year's TAG - if you are speaking and fall into the unwaged category (students and those currently not in employment) please apply! Deadline 15th Oct.
Good News! The bursary applications for TAG 2025 are open! Deadline 15th October. Apply via our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/bursaries/
Bursaries - TAG 2025
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September 16, 2025 at 3:35 PM
We have a small number of bursaries for this year's TAG - if you are speaking and fall into the unwaged category (students and those currently not in employment) please apply! Deadline 15th Oct.
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Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows
Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’
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September 11, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
The only suitable replacement for Melvyn on In Our Time
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September 4, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The replica pots are out for the first time in a while! It’s time for prehistoric cheese.
September 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The replica pots are out for the first time in a while! It’s time for prehistoric cheese.
So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change
Lovely new paper by @pennybickle.bsky.social and team, using some NEIF funded dates to suggest European Neolithic cemeteries were a short-lived phenomenon. 20 years on, things are still getting shorter! @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
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September 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change
New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
New temporal dimensions of the Linearbandkeramik cemetery horizon in Schwetzingen (Germany)
www.cambridge.org
August 18, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk
Current Archaeology
Britain's favourite archaeology magazine
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August 14, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk
Join the Archaeology and Worldbuilding game at TAG 2025 in York. Not your usual type of session for TAG! (though we have a few more things like this planned).
If you are interested and can commit to the session sign up below.
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Call for participants! @apolitopoulos.bsky.social, @kjkillackey.bsky.social, Stu Eve and I are holding an Archaeology & Worldbuilding playtesting and discussion workshop at @tag2025york.bsky.social!
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August 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Join the Archaeology and Worldbuilding game at TAG 2025 in York. Not your usual type of session for TAG! (though we have a few more things like this planned).
If you are interested and can commit to the session sign up below.
If you are interested and can commit to the session sign up below.
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⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️
Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.
Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.
Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
August 5, 2025 at 12:50 PM
⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️
Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.
Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August.
Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...
This is stunning!
Apparently it’s World Embroidery Day so maybe you’ll enjoy this aerial landscape I made of my beloved childhood haunt - the White Horse of Uffington. An @nationaltrust.org.uk site from the later Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Find out more here www.oxfordarchaeology.com/uffington-wh...
August 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is stunning!
Was great to chat to Laura when she was researching this piece and it's turned out great. #NewScientist
August 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Was great to chat to Laura when she was researching this piece and it's turned out great. #NewScientist
This session is going to be really important and the session organisers a wonderful human beings - if you are thinking about submitting a paper go for it!
🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED
TAG 2025 have extended their call for papers for all sessions until August 18th. This includes our session on Queer Archaeology! We are looking for any papers which engage with the legacy of Queer Archaeology 25 years after it was first proposed! More details below!
TAG 2025 have extended their call for papers for all sessions until August 18th. This includes our session on Queer Archaeology! We are looking for any papers which engage with the legacy of Queer Archaeology 25 years after it was first proposed! More details below!
August 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This session is going to be really important and the session organisers a wonderful human beings - if you are thinking about submitting a paper go for it!
Listening to Elbow rehearse loudly, while the delegates of an English conference causally chat Derrida in the corridor was not on my bingo card for today, nor is it particularly conducive to getting any writing done….
July 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Listening to Elbow rehearse loudly, while the delegates of an English conference causally chat Derrida in the corridor was not on my bingo card for today, nor is it particularly conducive to getting any writing done….
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The passage tomb of Newgrange, Ireland, before, during, and after excavation #TombTuesday
Recent genomic analysis of a skull fragment here revealed a rare case of incest, but is this enough evidence to support theories of a #Neolithic Irish 'king'?
Find out 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Recent genomic analysis of a skull fragment here revealed a rare case of incest, but is this enough evidence to support theories of a #Neolithic Irish 'king'?
Find out 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
July 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The passage tomb of Newgrange, Ireland, before, during, and after excavation #TombTuesday
Recent genomic analysis of a skull fragment here revealed a rare case of incest, but is this enough evidence to support theories of a #Neolithic Irish 'king'?
Find out 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Recent genomic analysis of a skull fragment here revealed a rare case of incest, but is this enough evidence to support theories of a #Neolithic Irish 'king'?
Find out 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Very cool indeed! Well done Mel and Adam! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...
Major grant to explore the discovery of Wales’ first complete ancient chariot
The University of Manchester and Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales have been awarded a £1.25 million research grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) following the discovery of an Iron ...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very cool indeed! Well done Mel and Adam! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...