Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

Wanna learn how to explore your genomic data to know how related your samples and populations are to each other? Come and join us and @jolijnerven.bsky.social on our next #AaRCademy workshop! April 16h at 14:00 CET!

Tá Brú na Bóinne ar cheann de na suíomhanna stairiúla is tábhachtaí sa tír & is cuid an-tábhachtach dár ‘n-oidhreacht’ Éireannach é.

Brú na Bóinne is one of the most recognised historical sites in the country & represents a very important part of our Irish heritage.
🔗 heritageireland.ie

The Housing Ambition team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina and his team for warmly receiving Brendan O'Neill, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and Samantha Martin, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy to discuss the richness of Kenya's archival history.

The old Irish goat is a living link to Ireland’s Bronze Age Study shows distinct breed has genetic links to goats that lived in Ireland 3,000 years ago

Our work on ancient Irish goat was covered in the Irish Times.

www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland The domestic goat likely first arrived to the island of Ireland as part of the introduction of agriculture approximately 5900 years ago, and remains a…

Our paper "Old goats: 3,000 years of genetic connectivity of the domestic goat in Ireland", is now online at the Journal of Archaeological Science! #aDNA

Supernaturecultures. Folklorists from Ireland, Norway, Iceland & Scotland explore traditional ecological knowledge, encounter, & nature recovery in a more-than-human North Atlantic. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @ucdhumanities.bsky.social @bealoideasucd.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

'Querns in context – an exploration of the social and cultural significance of Iron Age quernstones'
Louise Søndergaard, Aarhus University

Please come along to an impromptu UCD School of Archaeology visiting speaker seminar in the Barry Raftery Seminar Room, Ardmore Annexe, 1pm Wed 4th March!

#AaRCademy is back with another animal #aDNA workshop. This time, @jolijnerven.bsky.social will showcase the state-of-the-art methods to explore the relatedness between our samples. Join us online on April 16th, 14:00 CET!

Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

Congratulations to Assoc Prof Barry Molloy and his team from the @erc.europa.eu funded The Fall of 1200 BC project hosted at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social their major new publication in Nature Human Behaviour:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

An aisle of the NMS Archives in Swords, Co. Dublin.

The NMS Archive Unit is pleased to announce the release of an updated Finding Aid of all licences that produced archaeological reports in their collection.

Information on how to access: www.archaeology.ie/collections-...

@araireland.bsky.social @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social @nmireland.bsky.social

digital poster for the event: [equine textile image] Global Equine Cultures February 26-27, 2026 A Free Program GW 而 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MUSEUM THE TEXTILE MUSEUM Virtual Cotsen Textile Traces Global Roundtable museum.gwu.edu

Via GWU Museum & The Textile Museum:
“The Global Equine Cultures roundtable brings together an interdisciplinary panel to accompany our new exhibition Adorning the Horse: Equestrian Textiles for Power & Prestige.”
Feb. 26-27, 10AM-12:30PM
FREE Virtual Program
Register: museum.gwu.edu/cotsen-texti...

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

The bond between soldiers and their horses & mules was not just sentimentality...

Join us as at UCD Postgraduate Open Day 24 Feb 12.00-5.00 to discuss your grad study opportunities:
🔹Archaeology
🔹Mediterranean Archaeology
🔹Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture
🔹Hunter Gatherer Archaeology
🔹World Heritage Management and Conservation
To register: www.ucd.ie/.../ucd-post...

Exp. Archaeology and Investigating the Life, Death and Afterlife of Wooden Anthropomorphic Figures YouTube video by EXARC

Were people things? Were things people? How do both die, or indeed not die? Exploring Bronze Age carved wooden figures through experimental archaeology. youtu.be/l9QPoxrXxoA?...

Greger Larson Podcast Episode · A Dog's Life with Anna Webb · 8 February · 40m

Prof @gregerlarson.bsky.social joins 'A Dog's life' podcast to discuss how his work in our ancient DNA lab (PalaeoBARN) helps map our relationships with cats, dogs and other animals 🐕‍🦺🧬🐈‍⬛🐾 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

Thanks to Dublin City Council's Central Library in the Ilac Centre for hosting our exhibition “Objects, war and memory in Ireland past and present”, drawing parallels between the modern refugee experience and Ireland's history of conflict and displacement - on until 31st March!

@researchireland.ie

“Reassessing the Mesolithic ‘shell middens’ of Rockmarshall, Co. Louth”
Congratulations to Dr Martin Moucheron @researchireland.ie Postdoc at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and co-authors on publication of a major component of his PhD research in the PRIA
doi.org/10.1353/ria....

@ucddublin.bsky.social

‘Insularisation and isolation? Aligning the Mesolithics of Britain and Ireland’

Congratulations to Prof. Graeme Warren @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on the second of his two co-authored papers in the Proceedings of The Royal Irish Academy 125C.
doi.org/10.1353/ria....

@ucddublin.bsky.social @ria.ie

Caprine dairy exploitation on the Iranian Plateau from the seventh millennium BC - Nature Human Behaviour Using food residues on pottery vessels and dental calculus, and faunal remains, Casanova et al. find evidence that Neolithic communities in Iran were milking goats or sheep as early as the seventh mil...

Interdisciplinary bioarchaeological research (lipid residues analysis of prehistoric pottery, faunal and human remains) document Neolithic consumption of caprine milk 9000 years ago in the Iranian Plateau.
@umr-bioarch.bsky.social @cnrs.fr & @mnhn.fr) #LSCE.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social D Hunter-Gatherer Research Group Lab sessions. Voluntary work processing samples. This is what 322 >2mm fraction fish bones look like!

“Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing”

📚 Congratulations to Dr Jess Beck, Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Archaeology, and multi-national co-authors on their important new paper in Current Anthropology critically assessing archaeological publishing.

doi.org/10.1086/739789

The event will be hybrid, with both in-person attendance and a Zoom option. Please register via the SAL website: it is required to join online.

You can catch the livestream on the SAL YouTube channel with no registration needed.

🍽️ Catering will be available afterwards, so stay and mingle!

Physical copy of latest Proceedings @ria.ie. Its nice to have two papers in there! 1) A collaboration with Chantal Conneller re. chronologies & terminologies 2) w/
@martinmoucheron.bsky.social & A Trafford: revisiting the 'classic' Irish Mesolithic site at Rockmarshall
Both OA - see links below.

Looks LBA atm, but stay tuned!

Not saying YOU thought it would be straightforward, but steppe sheep ancestry is often conflated w/ wool production. At the moment, the oldest evidence for wool is the Rylstone textile, dated to 840–590 BC 🐑🐏🐑🐏

We're delighted that Dr Anwen Cooper, who heads the @rewildarch.bsky.social project, will be delivering this year's de Cardi lecture for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social AGM!

📍 The Milner York
📅 21st February | 12:20
🎟️ FREE

Read more about the AGM and how to book tickets here: tr.ee/CBA-AGM

The Wool Age: a short introduction Soay sheep – thought to be the closest living relatives to Bronze Age sheep (Image credit: Nic Williamson / Soay Sheep in Elkstone / CC BY-SA 2.0) Durable materials dominate how we encounter …

Mark Haughton, MSCA fellow @ucdischool.bsky.social is working on this exact question with his project, The Wool Age, so he’s the one to ask
woolage.wordpress.com/2024/11/19/t...

Ahhh, very good question that we *might* be able to answer after the aDNA comes through. We will be able to see when steppe type sheep arrive, but if that’s coincident with wool production & woollen cloth is another matter which is not at all as straightforward as you might think!