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Tansy Branscombe
@tansybranscombe.bsky.social
📚Editor of archaeology books at BAR Publishing. Send me a DM to chat about new book ideas or proposals!

🏺Dr of Archaeological Science - archaeological marine carbonates and palaeothermometry.
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We don’t just write about archaeology!

Here is our editor Tansy (pictured in red) who participated in a resistivity survey with the Suffolk Archaeological Field Group this past weekend! 🏺
September 26, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This is so enormously sad! Unbelievable that the university management can't see the value in a collection like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology
The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield
YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab
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September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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👏👏 Congratulations to our colleague Marjolein D. Bosch on receiving an #ERC Starting Grant for her COPE project. She will explore how Ice Age hunters and gatherers responded to cold temperatures, resource scarcity 💦 🦌 🌱 , and environmental changes 30,000 years ago.
More info: buff.ly/EGicG8z
September 4, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Win a signed copy of the wonderful new book Stone Lands by Fiona Robertson. To enter please repost and like this post and follow us on here if you haven’t already. More… 1/
June 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Don’t forget to join us tomorrow at 11am (UK/Lisbon time) to hear from @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and @tansybranscombe.bsky.social in the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths
videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/9355232390...
June 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Are you a graduate student thinking about career paths outside academia? Come listen to me and @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social talk about working in publishing at the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths seminar 📚
We're excited to announce the next @icarehb.bsky.social Alt-Ac Paths conversation, with Luíseach Nic Eoin @roinnanluisigh.bsky.social and Tansy Branscombe @tansybranscombe.bsky.social, who now work at @natecoevo.nature.com and @barpublishing.bsky.social.
Thurs 19th June, 11am (GMT), Zoom link below.
June 10, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets
The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It's time for Martin Bell's Europa Lecture! Looking forward to learning all about landscape connectivity in Prehistory 🏺 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social #Europa2025Reading
June 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Very excited to see some molluscan representation at the @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social's Europa conference! Nick Barton is presenting on connectivity in the Mesolithic landscape, including shell beads from Mesolithic sites in South Wales 🐚🏺 #Europa2025Reading
June 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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Attending The Prehistoric Society Europa Conference 2025 today? Find our Editor Tansy to discuss publishing with us!🏺

@prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Our Editor Tansy is enjoying her time in Cardiff at the Iron Age Dialogues conference!

Here is Mary Davis speaking about hoards this morning. 🏺
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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Ever wondered what medieval England may have sounded like?🎶

Dive into the soundscape of Early Medieval society with Lucy-Anne Taylor's new book. With in-depth archaeological analysis and captivating video re-creations of ancient instruments, it's a full sensory journey into history. 🏺

#medievalsky
April 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I'm thrilled to announce that this is finally a reality!

My thesis is now available as a book through @barpublishing.bsky.social. My thanks to the whole BAR team for their hard work and patience.
Check it out here shorturl.at/fdB4o

#archaeology #landscapearchaeology #prehistory #sheffielduni
February 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺

Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
February 24, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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The crossover we never knew we needed - today is World Anthropology Day and National Love Your Pet Day! 🏺🐕

Gwyn would like to celebrate by sharing her favourite BAR book, The Future is Indigenous!
February 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Today is my 32nd birthday and I’ll be donating £32 to a couple of Palestinian fundraisers - like Mustafa’s!

Mustafa has lost so much and needs our help to support his family in Gaza . Please consider donating at the link below and share his fundraiser widely!

tiny.cc/helpmustafa
February 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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We are officially coming off of X and focusing our efforts on fostering our archaeology community here!

Please share our account around so that we can find our people! We look forward to meeting you all!🏺

#ancientbluesky #archaeology #classicsbluesky
a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
Alt: a drawing of a cat and a blue butterfly by debbie olicone
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February 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Isles of Scilly/St Ives
February 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🔊Calling all School of Archaeology staff, students, projects and alumni! So far I've found 27 of our School community on here, let us know if there are more! go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k
January 15, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Vacancy for Project Curator: Registration of Palaeolithic-Mesolithic Collections British Museum
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Project Curator: Registration of Palaeolithic-Mesolithic collections
bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Come publish with us! 🏺🌍
📣Call for submissions in African Archaeology📣

To celebrate the publication of editions 100 and 101 in our African Archaeology series we are putting a call out for new submissions!

Curious to know more? Shoot us a message at editor@barpublishing.com.
January 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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If you've lost your home in a wildfire and it held cremains that you weren't able to take with you- contact Alta Heritage Foundation. They're archaeologists who have developed methods of recovering cremains from ashes of homes. Non-profit, at no cost.

#PalisadesFire
#EatonFire
#AltadenaFire
January 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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We are thrilled to announce the publication of our newest Open Access title The Future is Indigenous: Stories from the new Native North America Hall at the Field Museum! 🔓📚🏺

Read it here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

#ancientbluesky #archaeology
January 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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For Christmas, I’ll be reposting a bunch of fundraising campaigns for Palestinians all day - if you’re able to, please do donate!

But at the very least, please share them!
December 25, 2024 at 12:41 PM