Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Nature - An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain rdcu.be/d72Fj - a fascinating paper from my @tcddublin.bsky.social colleagues Lara Cassidy, Dan Bradley and others, shedding light on the prominent role of women in Celtic societies
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Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal
2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes
The Durotriges
An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership
A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Back home in Derry
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Snow on the hills in co Derry
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Archaeologist | Orienteerer | Wanderer. Professor of Funerary Archaeology at the University of York, specializing mostly in the central European Neolithic.
Economics writer at The New Yorker. Author of new book “Capitalism and Its Critics: A History from the Industrial Revolution to AI" and other beach reads.
Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
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Historian/writer • @maynoothuniversity.ie • executive committee @mediumaevum.bsky.social • board member @dublinnorthwest.bsky.social • Fierce Appetites (Penguin, 2022) • rep'd by Robert Caskie • extreme metal fan • she/her
Jesuit priest, editor at large of America Media, founder of Outreach, consultor for the Dicastery for Communication, author of "Come Forth."
https://linktr.ee/jamesmartinsj
Zooarchaeology lab based at the University of Sheffield, home to an extensive animal bone reference collection and one of the most active zooarch research teams in the world
Associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Statistical, population, and medical genetics; preimplantation genetic testing. Views my own.
http://scarmilab.org
Ancient Near Eastern Studies @uniwuerzburg.bsky.social │ #Assyriology and Near Eastern #Archaeology 🏺
The Ulster Archaeological Society aims to promote the involvement of the public in local archaeological activity across Ulster. We hold regular lectures and publish the Ulster Journal of Archaeology.
Find out more at www.qub.ac.uk/sites/uas/
Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Charity set up to support and promote archaeology in and across Orkney.
Worldwide society for prehistoric archaeology, established 1935.
www.prehistoricsociety.org
Posts by Tess Machling (membership secretary)
director Austrian Archaeological Institute @oeai.bsky.social, Academy of Sciences
professor for prehistory University Vienna #WorldArchaeology @heasvienna.bsky.social & https://instagram.com/barbarahorejs?igshi
Dr Charles Mount, Bord na Móna Project Archaeologist. Jottings on archaeology (especially the Bronze Age), history, culture, heritage & occasionally film & music. Based in Ireland. 🏺
Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural.
https://clairemillington.com
(She/her)
Paleolithic archaeologist▪️ Stone tool enthusiast▪️
Post-doc researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Affiliated researcher at the French Research Center of Jerusalem (CRFJ) ▪️Layout editor JLS
Archaeologist | Neolithic Britain & Ireland | Heritage interpretation | Lecturer at University of Exeter
