Penny Bickle

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/

Love how you just sent me all the weird cow stuff now 💜

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.

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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...

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.

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’

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Congratulations!

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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

Definitely a paper for the LBK and/or chronology geeks!

The paper is open access in Antiquity and published as an e print ahead of publication.

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)

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...

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If you are interested in the original research, the two articles are both open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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).

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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.

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This is stunning!

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!

Not you too...

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….

top: black-and-white photo of an earthen mound. April 1950 © Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland; middle: the mound under excavation. March 1968, Howard Goldbaum (voicesfromthedawn.com); bottom: Newgrange today. Tjp Finn, CC BY-SA 4.0

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...

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 ...

Very cool indeed! Well done Mel and Adam! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...

Congratulations Tom! So well deserved.

Conn cting Worlds: röffnung d r Post r-Ausst llung zu Forschung n d r G schichts- und Kulturwiss nschaft n d r Fr i n Univ rsität am 30.6.* Ausstellung noch bis zum 30. September in der Holzlaube der Freien Universität zu sehen

The Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin figures prominently in a new poster exhibition that will be launched today: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

A pike of black bags up against a brick wall.

Thank you to the students moving out who dumped this right outside our garden yesterday. It already stinks and is covered in flies. It is so inconsiderate of you.