@fredrikekengren.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History @lundsuniversitet.bsky.social. Mostly interested in graves and funerary archaeology, ritual theory, and the archaeology of Iron Age and Viking Age Scandinavia.
Map of Ireland, showing sites from which cattle bones were analysed.
Do you like cows? Maybe not as much as prehistoric people in Ireland! From the Neolithic to medieval periods, cattle dominated the economy #CowAppreciationDay 🐄
Isotope analysis revealed how they became central to social status in Irish communities 🏺
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Join us at Lund University!
The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology have a number of vacancies, with possible placement at the Departement of Archaeology and Ancient History:
Read more here:
www.lunduniversity.lu.se/shape-future...
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With thanks to everyone who submitted a session proposal, we are excited to announce that the Call for Papers for Nordic TAG 2026 is now live!
Check out an exciting array of sessions & workshops, and get your abstract(s) in before Oct 15.
lnu.se/en/meet-linn...
#NordicTAG2026
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📣 Nordic TAG 2026 will be hosted by Linnaeus University in Kalmar!
Save the date: 6-9 May, 2026
Call for papers opens 1 March.
Organised by: @livnstutz.bsky.social, @emilyhanscam.bsky.social, Terje Östigård, Gustav Wollentz & co from @linneuni.bsky.social archaeology
#NordicTAG26
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Mitt och Anna Blennows fakultetsgemensamma seminarium Ariadne bjuder in till samtal om Sapfo.
Välkomna att delta på plats eller via länk!
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3) 2.5 yr postdoctoral position in Palaeolithic gene-culture coevolution. Together with a palaeogenomics postdoc, we seek to generate material culture data such that we can capture these ancient gene-culture cophylogenetic dynamics international.au.dk/about/profil...
03.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 27 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 24) The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe - a PhD fellowship focused on where, when, and how pre-Roman small-scale cropping and gardening truly began. Perfect for an archaeology-minded geoscientist/geoarchaeologist: phd.nat.au.dk/for-applican...
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2) 2.5yr postdoctoral position in population genomics of the Palaeolithic. Together with @mikkelschierup.bsky.social we seek to reconstruct Late Pleistocene ancestries and migrations using available genomic data. international.au.dk/about/profil...
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‘Creeping hyaena’ spear-thrower carved from reindeer antler, from La Madeleine. Photo: Don Hitchcock 2014. Original on display at Le Musée National de Préhistoire, Les Eyzies-de-Tayac
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