Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe
@ansoc-erc.bsky.social
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
https://ansoc.net
Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin
Pinned
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
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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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
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
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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!
November 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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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@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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
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
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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
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
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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
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
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
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
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
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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:
"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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November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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:
"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:
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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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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
@ria.ie
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
@ria.ie
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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
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
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Two more weeks till Dublin!! Can't wait for this!
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Two more weeks till Dublin!! Can't wait for this!
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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
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
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“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
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
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
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
📣 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
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
October 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
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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
"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
October 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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
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
October 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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
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.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fantastic news! Very well deserved recognition.
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Women and Archaeology 1990-2010. Out in hard copy now!
New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Women and Archaeology 1990-2010. Out in hard copy now!
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New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
New issue of Archaeological Dialogues Vol. 31, No. 1 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @sveinvn.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @yannisham.bsky.social
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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 👇
Explore Sheffield’s 🌾 Archaeobotany & 🦴 Zooarchaeology collections through the SHEFF BIOARCH RICHeS (UKRI) project.
Consult, learn & photograph heritage materials — booking info below 👇
October 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎉 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 👇
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
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
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
'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
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
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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.
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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
bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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
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.
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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.
@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
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
October 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
@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
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