Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

ANSOC’s Nóra Nic Aoidh presenting her early results from the study of Bronze Age animal figurines from the northern Carpathian Basin!!! 🐖🐎🐄🐏🐐🐕

#animals #archaeology
@nnicaoidh.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

UCD School of Archaeology PhD/MLitt Research Day kicks off, an exciting range of topics being explored by our researchers

Kinship, Culture, & Death in Neolithic Ireland Amplify Archaeology In this episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast, Neil chats with Dr Jessica Smyth, Dr Neil Carlin and Dr Susan Greaney about Neolithic Ireland

Listen now on your favourite podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc, or on our Abarta Heritage website, where you can find shownotes and links to the papers:
www.abartaheritage.ie/kinship-cult...

An aerial view of Newgrange with the branding for Amplify Archaeology Podcast, and text that reads: 'Kinship, Culture & Death in Neolithic Ireland'

New episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast!

In this episode I chatted with Dr Jessica Smith, Dr Neil Carlin, and @suegreaney.bsky.social about the important recent paper that discusses Neolithic society, kinship, death, ancient DNA, and how we understand and interpret the story of the past.

A reminder of the @aarc-community.bsky.social annual event this Thursday, 3pm GMT - join us for discussions on the science of interrelatedness and mutualism!

Chestnut foal in field of daisies

The history of pedigree breeding often tells of wealthy landowners creating breeds to demonstrate mastery over nature. The role of animals is usually ignored. In contrast, island stories of Shetland ponies appear as active participants in domestication relationships

#CeilingsOnSunday National Museum Dublin

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉 Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage: 👉 https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/Vote-for-the-research-project-of-the-year #VoteNow #IrishHistory

We’re nominated for Research Project of the Year! 🎉
Vote for Words on the Wave and help us celebrate Ireland’s medieval heritage:
👉 www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/V...
#MedievalIreland #IrishArchaeology

Book of the Year 2026 – Nominees - Current Archaeology Below are some of the publications we feel most deserve to be recognised for their contribution to the field – the nominees for the Book of the Year award. Voting is now open, and all the winners of t...

Current Archaeology Book of the Year shortlist is out and voting is open! As always there is just too much choice. Individual landscape studies, best practice and John Schofield’s reflections on how archaeologists can help solve the world’s ‘wicked’ problems

Garrod Seminar Series 4 December 2025 Amanda Logan Northwestern University An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa

Join us this Thursday for ‘An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa’ with Amanda Logan from Northwestern University

📅 Thursday 4 December 2025
⏰ 4pm

bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025 The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin

TONIGHT! Discovery Programme's Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered by Prof Joanna Brück: "Animal Kin, Animal Others in Early Bronze Age Britain"

Join us on Zoom at 7.30pm. Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

@nationalmons.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

A Hybrid Hoofprint: How an Early Iron Age Mule Redraws the Map of Mediterranean Exchange A newly analyzed equid from Catalonia hints that hybrid animal breeding, long tied to later empires, had deeper and more complex roots in the western Mediterranean.

An early Iron Age mule from Catalonia pushes hybrid equid breeding in Europe back centuries. Its bones reveal trade networks, local innovation, and a rapidly changing Mediterranean world. #Archaeology #HumanEvolution #IronAge #Equids www.anthropology.net/p/a-hybrid-h...

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!

This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls

This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill

ALT - Cover image of 2026 NMS calendar featuring St. Mary’s Abbey, Ferns, Co. Wexford ©Photographic Archive, National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland

🎅NMS Christmas Draw
Win 2 copies of #RoundTowersOfIreland 2026 calendar.
Produced by our NMS Photographic Archive Unit.
50 lucky people will be drawn at random on 16 Dec.
One entry per person w/ full postal address to photoarchive@housing.gov.ie
Ádh mór!
#HeritageWellbeing
@opwireland.bsky.social

Current Archaeology Awards, Nomainated 2026 Book of the Year: Medieval Warhorse: Equestrian Landscapes, Material Culture, and Zooarchaeology in Britain, AD 800-1550

Great news! Our AHRC-funded Warhorse book has been nominated as Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards. Prof Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' project is also up for Project of the Year! Voting is open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote

Genetic analysis of 7,000 year old preserved goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol, Spain). Advances in ancient DNA research have expanded the range of materials from which genetic information can be recovered, enabling the analysis of atypical materials. These often preserve both host and e...

Another #aDNA preprint! We recovered DNA from 7,000 year old (!) goat leather from Cueva de los Murciélagos - and see a genetic link with Bermeya goats today!

Credit to Francisco Martínez-Sevilla for seeing me on Youtube(?!) + reaching out to collaborate - there's still value in the internet.

Prof Kate Robson Brown, UCD Vice President for Research, Innovation and Impact celebrating the publication of four books by our Early Career Researchers, Dr Mark Haughton, Dr Kate Kanne, and Dr Ryan Lash

UCD School of Archaeology 2025 Research Day is on, “Home and Away: The reach and range of archaeology at UCD” @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

*TOMORROW!* For our last seminar of 2025, we welcome Prof Oliver Creighton (Exeter) for his paper 'Medieval warhorse: the archaeology of a medieval revolution?' Join us in Room 205 @uclarchaeology.bsky.social 6:15pm for what promises to be a fascinating paper. We look forward to seeing you there!

Important update! RemAaRCs: on Mutualism has a new date and time!

We are still looking for people to join us at AaRC's Steering Comittee! Come and join us making this a place where ECRs working on animal paleogenomics can share and learn and thrive!

Deadline is November 30th!

Closing date Dec 3rd. 1 year post as Researcher on our Prehistoric Policies project. 👇👇👇

Had the pleasure of delivering my talk at the WomenSOFar workshop (Aix-Marseille University) on understand variation in diet by sex in early agropastoralists. Many thanks Gwen for the invitation & for one of the most impressive discussion whiteboards I’ve ever seen! dietevo.ie/womensofar-c...

The dispersal of domestic cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 years ago The domestic cat (Felis catus) descends from the African wildcat Felis lybica lybica. Its global distribution alongside humans testifies to its successful adaptation to anthropogenic environments. Unc...

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs?

Can I interest you in some cats?

Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia?

As you wish!

Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Cell Genomics
www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S

OUT NOW!
An Aerial Archaeologist’s Logbook, 1970-1995. 100 Air Photographs from Northern Britain
by D. W. Harding

📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/an-aer...

#aerialphotography #archaeology

We brought the wild with us 🐾 to last week’s Bronze Age Forum!
Grateful to our hosts @ucddublin.bsky.social for an engaging programme and warm welcome! #Archaeology #BronzeAgeForum #WilderPasts

Martin Doody Memorial Lecture 2025 The Discovery Programme's annual Martin Doody Memorial Lecture, delivered this year by Prof Joanna Brück of University College Dublin

NEXT WEEK!

Our Martin Doody memorial lecture is happening next Thursday, 4th December, 7.30pm

"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: www.eventbrite.com/e/martin-doo...

Oh that’s brilliant, Cate! Massive congratulations 🥳 🍻🥂

Commentary: "Animals Give Us a Body We Didn’t Have: An Interview with Vinciane Despret" features Iwona Janicka, Stephen Muecke, & Vinciane Despret in conversation on how the dead, animals, and people animate each other.