@graemewarren.bsky.social
hunter-gatherer archaeology at UCD Archaeology; Book *Hunter-Gatherer Ireland* (Winner EAA Book Prize 2024); President *International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research*; grows/eats chillies; mountain/ultra runner
What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
An arctic species of whale, normally seen in the waters off Greenland, Canada and Siberia has been recorded in Ireland for the first time, after a carcass was found washed up on a beach in Co Donegal
21.11.2025 13:21 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3Details of our Hunter Gatherer Arch and Anth programmes will be in these webinars 👇👇
20.11.2025 18:28 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UCD Masters Week 24 to 27 November
Four days of interactive webinars to help you find the best Masters programme for you including excellent graduate studies opportunities with @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/graduateadmi...
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Thanks Stefan - great to see this!
20.11.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Im a day latewith this (because I wasn't in the office yesterday) but delighted that my 1998 mug will get another #scotlandworldcup outing !
20.11.2025 08:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📣 New BBS preprint out now! 📣
"Models casting egalitarian societies as crucibles of equality perpetuate the factually uninformed notion that foragers are somehow more noble. Critiques portray egalitarianism as romantic fantasy. Neither characterization is wholly justified."
doi.org/10.1017/S014...
Hot off the press, our new paper on the incredible Late Bronze Age nucleated settlement at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland is freely available to read (doi.org/10.15184/aqy...). @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @antiquity.ac.uk
18.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1
Selection of flint artefacts from the Late Mesolitic period (8000-3800 BCE) from the upland North York Moors, England. Microliths (narrow blade tools including arrow points & barbs) to the L side, Blades (knives) top R, and a typical core - what's left after removing the blades from a flint pebble with an antler hammer is bottom R. This selection is around (dated) 5000 to 3800 BCE. Flint here originated and was transported by people from beach deposits several miles/kms away, dragged by glaciers more than 12,000 years ago through what is now the North Sea (sea level rise).
#FindsFriday #FlintFriday #Archaeology reprise. I offer a typical N Yorkshire (England) uplands Mesolithic flint portfolio from the overlap period between the hunter-gatherers and first Neolithic farmers, pot & salt makers around 3800 BCE. More C14 dates due soon. timevista.co.uk/about/resear...
14.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Come work with us! Prehistoric Policies is coordinated by me, Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social and Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social. Contact me with any queries.
14.11.2025 14:09 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Project Researcher (environmental policy) @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social
Temporary 12 months post of Project Researcher as part of the @britishacademy.bsky.social funded ‘Prehistoric Policies’ project.
Job Ref 019121, search www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo....
@iaiarchaeo.bsky.social, @cifa-ec.bsky.social
Gah - the link on the job advert below not working properly.
Go to www.ucd.ie/archaeology/... and follow embedded links to Research Vacancies.
Sorry!
Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Project Researcher within UCD School of Archaeology. This position supports the British Academy funded Prehistoric Policies project. PP examines the ways in which environmental policies in Britain and Ireland, and especially those focused on the Just Transition, use figures of the prehistoric past to support their claims, often using popular science accounts as their main sources. PP will analyse environmental discourse and policy and conduct interviews with key figures to better understand why future-facing documents refer back to the human past as well as what kinds of claims are made and whether they are well-founded. PP also includes public-facing events to raise awareness of the way in which prehistory is being used in environmental policy. Fixed Salary: €46,700 Per Annum Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 3rd December 2025.
Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
13.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0Prehistoric Policies seeks to understand how ideas about the deep time human past, or claims about our evolved human nature, are used to support the development of policies engaging with the climate and environment emergency.
Put simply, some of the claims are a bit iffy...
JOB KLAXON
1 Yr Project Researcher @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social working on @britishacademy.bsky.social funded *Prehistoric Policies* with Ben Elliott (@archsoundscapes.bsky.social), Alice Rudge (@alicerudge.bsky.social) and me. Contact me with queries.
Pls share!
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Picture of 6 postgrad students sat at a table in a lab studying bones. Text says: The UCL Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic (PaPa) MSc programme is an established, pioneering course in human origins delivered by a world-leading university. It will bring you a deep and expert understanding of the scientific record of human evolution which powerfully combines opportunities for the study of palaeolithic archaeology, palaeoanthropology and wider scientific approaches to the early human story. Coordinated by UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology departments and drawing on expertise from across the University and other institutions, it will provide you with training in the specialisms of your choice, while also ensuring you are introduced to the wider scope of approaches to the study of human evolution. Having run now for over 15 years, we have PaPa alumni actively leading a new generation of human origins research across the world. Our programme is a proven springboard to PhD programmes, careers in academia, archaeological science, specialist archaeological fieldwork, science media and much more.
Applications are now open to join our 2026 Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is taught by experts from UCL and designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa
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The senior leadership team at @edinburghuniversity plan to cut staff expenditure by £90m, which is more than 10%.
This would mean about 1 in 8 members of staff losing their jobs. With hundreds of jobs already lost, a further 1,000+ jobs are on the line.
www.instagram.com/p/DQuFjwBjHB5/
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is hiring!
Applications are invited for the position of Research and Engagement, Senior Programme Manager as part of the DRI team headquartered at the Royal Irish Academy.
Apply by 27.11.2025 at 3pm.
www.ria.ie/about/career...
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:
This is not as helpful as Pickle thinks it is.
05.11.2025 15:58 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The male Isabelline Shrike in Co Wexford today- an extremely rare vagrant and only the first ever adult male recorded in Ireland. #birds #BirdsSeenIn2025 #IrishBirding
01.11.2025 18:59 — 👍 53 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1
Hello, people of Yorkshire! On November 11th, I'm doing a joint event with archaeologist Professor Nicky Milner at the University of York about the Stone Age. It's suitable for kids, but adults will learn stuff too!
Tickets FREE! 6.30pm event, but book signing before www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has found itself embroiled in a series of controversies, shaking public confidence in Scotland’s most important cultural body
Its shocking to see the impact on the staff
It breaks my heart.
An important summary of the sorry state of senior leadership at HES with significant implications for archaeology and heritage.
31.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Much to unpick... "Pezzuti’s interest is in coolness as ... economic labour or production. His hypothesis is that – just as tribal societies prize skilled hunters, who provide food for the group – today’s information economy turns on creativity and innovation."
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland
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
Aerial view of MSc students excavating in the Cairngorms, Scotland
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
Our distance learning (on line) Graduate Certificate in Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology and Anthropology is now open for applications for Sept 2026 start. Full details below or contact me to discuss. Please share!
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @eaapam.bsky.social
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
“Do fence me in: boundaries, liminality and transgressions in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1100”
8th Annual National Monuments Service Archaeology Conference
Organised by Wordwell | Archaeology Ireland.
Trinity College, Dublin, 18 October 2025
youtu.be/NQLhzY3pl0Y?...
