Erin Crowley-Champoux

Any and all interested in environmental archaeology - the Environmental Archaeologists of Ireland (EAI) is hosting a spring conference on archaeological perspectives on sustainability!
Abstracts are due by March 3rd

Internships - Crow Canyon Archaeological Center

🚨Internship alert🚨

The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, Colorado, is offering a paid #Zooarchaeology Internship for advanced undergraduate/graduate students from May 11 - July 18. Application deadline is March 3.

More information here: crowcanyon.org/internships/

🚨📢 I am excited to announce the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center will support another paid Zooarchaeology Internship this summer from May 11 to July 18. Application deadline is March 3. More info here: crowcanyon.org/internships/. Feel free to DM with questions! 🏺🧪

A New Open‐Access Method Applying GIS Techniques to the Study of Slicing, Scraping, and Tooth Marks The study of bone surface modifications (BSMs) offers a window into behaviors and subsistence strategies adopted by ancient hominins. Geospatial software have become valuable tools for BSM analysis, ....

Proud supervisor post. A wonderful paper led by Eboni Westbury on new methods to record bone surface modifications. Years on the making but finally out!

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Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

The link feels like a sacrilege but the video includes work by the FOODSEC project!

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I’ve tried my hand at creating my first custom feed! Irish Archaeology will (I think!) collect any post with the words Irish and archaeology / archeology or Ireland and archaeology / archeology as well as any post tagged IrishArchaeology or IrishArcheology (not case sensitive) feel free to improve!

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about

1) food economies of Bronze Age Ireland
2) relationship between food, death, and rebirth. Parallelism with fermentation?

Two Bronze scabbard plates on display in the Ulster Museum. The plates are delicately decorated in the La Tène style, with incised symmetrical curvilinear decoration

A close up of the intricate decoration on one of the scabbard plates

Scabbard Plates • Antrim • Iron Age

These beautifully decorated bronze scabbard plates were part of an important hoard of Iron Age objects found in a bog near Ballymena, Antrim, in the 19th century.

The surface is intricately decorated in the La Tène style.

See them in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.

Dún Ailinne 50 years of archaeological exploration

Since we’re covering story maps in @ulgeog.bsky.social labs today, I thought I’d share this story map I created of the #archaeology work we’ve been doing at Dún Ailinne in Co Kildare! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/88f6...

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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I also enjoy cooking and fermentation projects with my husband and our two dogs, Huxley and Boswell!

Currently I’m working with UMD-Extension, MD Sea Grant, and NOAA on an environmental social science project around community response to flood risk.

I’ve been involved with archaeological projects in NJ, ME, MD, MN, Peru, and Ireland since 2007 and I’ve been a supervisor at the Dun Ailline Archaeological Field School since 2018 with @zenobiewan.bsky.social.

Last year I had a postdoc at UCD (Ireland) on the FOODSEC project, examining food security and preservation in Bronze Age Ireland.
I also had to opportunity to help out with some faunal analysis and archaeomalacology projects!

Afterwards I was a lecturer at USM (Maine) teaching archaeology and cultural anthropology. I also supported the Casco Bay Archaeological Project, assessing climate impacts on island and coastal archaeological sites and connected with island communities I worked with as an AmeriCorps member (‘12-‘14)

Just a brief introduction for all my new colleagues on here: I’m an anthropological archaeologist, specializing in environmental archaeology and food. My PhD (UMN ‘22) focused on animal husbandry strategies and political organization in Late Iron Age and early medieval Ireland
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Ah! Thank you!

Hi Adam! Mind if I’m added to the list?

Hey y’all! So I started this account last year (recommended by @ruthfcarden.bsky.social!) and shortsightedly didn’t interact with it. But I’m here now and excited to be here!