Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

Very exciting opportunity, Assistant Keeper, in Irish Antiquities Division, National Museum of Ireland

www.museum.ie/en-ie/about/...

📣 Work with us! 📣

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology.

📅 Closing date: 15 September
👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

HUMAN. CAT. KINSHIP.

Last but not least, the International Council for Archaeology (ICAZ) is sponsoring a prize for best archaeozoology talk at ISBA11. Fill in the form to be considered! forms.gle/jobLM1K2y1ky...

#ISBA11 #Archaeozoology @archaeobiomics.bsky.social @icaz-news.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

Fantastic news for the world renowned Sheffield #zooarchaeology collection! 🦴

Congrats to @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social and Fort Cumberland labs!!

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Plants 🌱 are cool too!
See what our brilliant archaeobotany colleagues are up to at the #IWGP

Professor Joanna Brück elected International Fellow of the British Academy

👩‍🎓✨ Huge congratulations to Professor Joanna Brück of the UCD School of Archaeology on her election as an International Fellow of The British Academy, the highest honour it confers on non-UK residents in recognition of scholarly distinction.

@britishacademy.bsky.social www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Prof Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social has been elected as an International Fellow of the @britishacademy.bsky.social, the highest honour the Academy confers on non-UK residents.

www.ucd.ie/research/news/2025/profjoannabruckelectedinternationalfellowofthebritishacademy/body,834332,en.html

Hurling Aidan O'Sullivan and Liam Downey talk about history of hurling, and in particular what archaeology can tell us about our national game.

“Aidan O'Sullivan and Liam Downey talk about history of hurling, and in particular what archaeology can tell us about our national game”, on RTÉ’s radio “The History Show”
www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical rol...

New open access book that sounds like it’ll speak directly to my weird horse girl heart so maybe of interest to some of y’all too:

‘Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History’ by Kanne, Benkert and Vo Van Qui (eds.)!

www.sidestone.com/books/harnes...

Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical rol...

I know you lot love horses, almost as much as you love Puppies, cats and baby badgers. :)

www.sidestone.com/books/harnes...

New open access book on horses. Chapters of interest with graphics and maps:

Horse Domestication and Early Use

The Horse in European Warfare

Archaeology of the Horse

Large dog in front of reconstruction early medieval house

Now impossible to get tickets for #All-Ireland #Hurling Final, #Cork #Tipperary

...& a handful of tickets still for @tuatha.ie online talk?

"What game did Cú Chulainn play? Exploring the early medieval origins of hurling and camogie" with Prof Aidan O'Sullivan

7.30pm IST, Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Current Anthropology: Visual anthropology competition

PLEASE SHARE!

Current Anthropology's annual competition is open! Deadline 15 Sept for 1-3 visual pieces plus extended caption in any of the 4 fields (soc/cult anth, arch, bio anth, ling anth). The winners will be published in 2026 Curr Anth AND be the issue covers!

Just defended my PhD! An incredible experience, with thought-provoking discussions from two brilliant opponents: Prof. Joanna Brück @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and Prof. @kristinaoma.bsky.social. Including a trial lecture debating the presence of warriors and hierarchy in Scandinavian rock art 👇🏽

Study casts doubt on ‘incestuous royalty’ in Neolithic Ireland New research has cast doubts over suggestions an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland more than 5,000 years ago.

📰 Was Neolithic Ireland ruled by 'incestuous royalty'? A new study in Antiquity suggests not 🏺

#AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via ‪@york.ac.uk‬

www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

No Kings.

Doubts cast over suggestions incestuous ‘god-kings’ ruled during Neolithic Ireland

🤴👸 New UCD-led research has cast doubt on the idea that an incestuous social elite ruled over the ancient people of Ireland 5,500 years ago.
www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Doubts cast over suggestions incestuous ‘god-kings’ ruled during Neolithic Ireland

Congratulations to Associate Professor Jessica Smyth &Associate Professor Dr Neil Carlin, and International colleagues, on their publication in Antiquity today,
"The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber"

www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

New podcast from UCD Earth Institute Journalist-in-Residence Janine Kennedy explores the past, present and future of Irish food & agriculture!

In Ep.1, Meriel McClatchie & Jessica Smyth UCD School of Archaeology bring prehistoric diets and farming practices to life:
shows.acast.com/farmers-jour...

6,000 year old farmers While we marvel at how clever our ancestors were, we don’t talk as much about who they were and how they lived their lives. Associate Professor of pre-history in UCD Jessica Smyth talks about her rese...

“6,000 year old farmers” Countrywide on RTÈ Radio One

Associate Professor Jessica Smyth, UCD School of Archaeology, talks about her research.

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Did animals provide the blueprints for human culture? | Aeon Essays Prehistoric humans didn’t create art and architecture out of nothing. They took inspiration from the nonhuman world

That line between #nature and #culture we liked to draw? - Turns out it's messy as chickenscratch.

🦜 Birds sing. 🐋 Whales teach. 🐒 Chimps pass down tools.
We didn’t invent culture, we just gave it a name:

aeon.co/essays/did-a... by Cameron Allan McKean via @aeon.co

A study of multi isotope variation through a Neolithic Cattle tooth from Stonehenge.

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

ANSOC & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Kate Kanne & Jess Beck had an amazing time with a fantastic group of archaeologists! Massive congratulations & thanks to @mikkelnortoft.bsky.social Martin Furholt & all the participants for an inspiring weekend

The Cemetery in Nižná Myšľa (Slovakia): A New Chapter in Research on the History of the Local Early Bronze Age Community Hybrid Lecture by Mateusz Jaeger | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

This week's @oeai.bsky.social »World Archaeology Seminar«: Mateusz Jaeger with "The Cemetery in Nižná Myšľa (Slovakia): A New Chapter in Research on the History of the Local Early Bronze Age Community", 18.6., 17:30 CET, in person and online. info and zoom link here: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...

Just a quick reminder that abstracts for the next Bronze Age Forum to be held at University College Dublin on 14-16 November 2025 are due by Friday 27 June. For further information, please see bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com.

YouTube video by PAASTA community PAASTA Seminar Series - June 2025: Meaghan Mackie

Last week Meaghan Mackie provided us with an excellent talk about the challenges faced when bridging archaeology and archaeological sciences, fortunately if you missed it, her talk is now available on our YouTube! youtu.be/qZ_RRNPBFO4?...

Day 2 of the @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social fieldschool involved introducing students to structured light scanning and photogrammetry
@heritagecouncil.ie @rebeccanir.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social

Another fine day on site with @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social training excavation at Glendalough. Cleaning back still - but the pace of work of our students is clearing proving a little too much for our PhD student supervisors 🤣

#zooarchaeology session for January 2026 Society for Historical Archaeology conference in Detroit seeks additional contributors.

Title: Animal Stories: Multispecies Narratives in Zooarchaeology

Title and abstract of 150 words due to organizers by June 23.

Abstract below.

Archaeometric Perspective on the Bronze Age Craft Organization Hybrid Lecture by Justyna Baron | University of Wrocław

This week's @oeai.bsky.social »World Archaeology Seminar«: Justyna Baron with her presentation "Archaeometric Perspective on the Bronze Age Craft Organization". 11.6.2025, 17:30 CEST. As always hybrid, so join us via zoom if you aren't in Vienna! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/even...