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Zenobie Garrett

@zenobiewan.bsky.social

Archaeologist. American. Alliterator. Asst Director of Dún Ailinne Field School, Kildare. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Limerick with IrelandMapped.

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Screenshot of title PowerPoint slide for Jesse Wolfhagen’s talk Rethinking Human-Cattle Interactions at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) for the Archaeological Institute of America

Screenshot of title PowerPoint slide for Jesse Wolfhagen’s talk Rethinking Human-Cattle Interactions at Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Türkiye) for the Archaeological Institute of America

Screenshot of graphs showing biometric Modelling indicating sexual dimorphism in adult pig tibias.

Screenshot of graphs showing biometric Modelling indicating sexual dimorphism in adult pig tibias.

Screenshot showing skewing towards more female cattle in later period deposits at Çatalhöyük

Screenshot showing skewing towards more female cattle in later period deposits at Çatalhöyük

Screenshot of graphs showing stable isotope analysis tgat indicate high variability in the environments cattle came from.

Screenshot of graphs showing stable isotope analysis tgat indicate high variability in the environments cattle came from.

Great @archaeological.org talk looking at new analyses of cattle material from Çatalhöyük by @uncertainarch.bsky.social from @harvard.edu. Modelling shows skew towards female cattle in later periods, shifts to Konya(?) plain, and the suggestion of garden hunting as a strategy. Lots to think about.

22.10.2025 01:01 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

does anyone know what happened to the website Digitised Diseases? I wanted to run a paleopathology lab in my archaeology class but it doesn't seem to be working. Any good alternatives for looking at 3D models of skeletal pathologies?

24.09.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anyone know what is up with the excavations.ie website? It was down all weekend. Came back for a bit but sometime loaded random ad pages instead and now seems to be down again?

10.09.2025 19:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Screenshot showing a list of folders in a folder called applications. The individual folders represent job applications with most dated to 2021 or 2025

Screenshot showing a list of folders in a folder called applications. The individual folders represent job applications with most dated to 2021 or 2025

Slightly humored by how my job applications folder really shows the roller coaster of postdoc precarity.

30.07.2025 11:10 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How many books should one have for the field? Currently have a pile of 10 but you never know what you’re going to want to read!

06.06.2025 19:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of European, American, and British coins in hand.

Photo of European, American, and British coins in hand.

Please, for the love of Pete, make the monies look different. Sincerely, someone trying to sort their field wallet.

06.06.2025 17:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Postcard of ceremonial flint mace head from Knowth passage tomb with two googly-eyes taped to it.

Postcard of ceremonial flint mace head from Knowth passage tomb with two googly-eyes taped to it.

Game on.

04.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Will you accept drafts using shenanigans measurements with the provision they’ll be converted to tomfoolery units for publication?

04.06.2025 07:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is the kind of mischief I LIVE to get up to on site.

04.06.2025 07:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Photograph of a notebook with a note from the Digital Repository of Ireland thanking them for participating in a data sustainability workshop

Photograph of a notebook with a note from the Digital Repository of Ireland thanking them for participating in a data sustainability workshop

Aww! I talked way too fast and flubbed what I was going to say but the good people at @dri.ie were kind and sent something. Love working w/ colleagues who know it’s not just about output but about the environment created around research! Thanks @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for everything!

03.06.2025 13:25 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This weekend we've travelled across the County testing the new community collection app for 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'. Thanks to those who approached to ask about the project and how they can get involved

@heritagecouncil.ie @unioflimerick.bsky.social @limerickcouncil.bsky.social

02.06.2025 17:00 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Not quite! Ceremonial Iron Age centre with lots of prehistoric activity all the way back to the Neolithic!

01.06.2025 09:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced – and the bitter...

"Most of the fighting in palaeoanthropology is simply a function of the wild imbalance between the number of palaeoanthropologists, which is large, and the number of objects available for them to study, which is very much not."

Lots of choice quotes in this piece on the Toumaï remains... 1/3 🦣🧪🏺

29.05.2025 15:25 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 2

Working down in Kildare on a site called Dún Ailinne!

30.05.2025 12:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

5 am. But field work will be starting then so I’ll already be on that early schedule!

30.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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mr bean is standing in a field of yellow flowers and asking what time zone are you in . Alt: mr bean is standing in a field of yellow flowers and asking what time zone are you in .

9 *hour.

30.05.2025 10:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ooh thanks for sharing looks fab! Going to brave the 9 am time difference and register!

30.05.2025 10:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screenshot of Mac desktop showing 16 application windows open.

Screenshot of Mac desktop showing 16 application windows open.

The desktop of someone applying for jobs - 🎶4 cover letters, 3 CVs, 2 employment apps, and a comfort show on repeat🎵

21.05.2025 21:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The 'space archaeologists' hoping to save our cosmic history The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, "space archaeologists" are scrambling to save what's left.

Such a cool piece and so glad to see actual space archaeologists getting some love! @drspacejunk.bsky.social @jstpwalsh.bsky.social www.bbc.com/future/artic...

16.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 22    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2

This was a really great workshop to attend. It’s always great to see others research AND roll up your sleeves and have a frank conversation about tackling sustainability. Many thanks to the @dri.ie and particularly @bethknazook.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy for organizing this!

16.05.2025 12:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats Niamh

08.05.2025 13:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

a thing i find unrealistic in movies is villain origin stories. i just think the reason the scientist went rogue is more likely:
-another update to the online learning environment or
-ordering catering for a meeting for 8 people.
honestly makes ME want to move into the field of death ray research

08.05.2025 07:40 — 👍 137    🔁 25    💬 11    📌 0
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We're all set for the Conference of Irish Geographers starting tomorrow 😍 @irelandmapped.bsky.social exhibition in place and all set up ready

06.05.2025 14:55 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Purple text reads "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." A stylized silhouette of a person's face appears below. Instead of a face, a stylized image of magnetic tape represents the person's features.

Purple text reads "Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens." A stylized silhouette of a person's face appears below. Instead of a face, a stylized image of magnetic tape represents the person's features.

Wow the cover of the 1973 Hew Report (precursor to 1974's Data Privacy Act) is *wild*. ia601702.us.archive.org/8/items/reco...

29.04.2025 17:31 — 👍 327    🔁 81    💬 8    📌 1

Shoutout 2 @lisagriffith.bsky.social 4 doing the hard work of herding the authorial cats & to Stuart for being so involved in creating great tech he’s not on the social techs. And to @profkdlilley.bsky.social & @catsporter.bsky.social for their brilliant contributions here and the entire project!

11.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I’ve seen a lot of people especially in admin and corporate worlds advocate for using AI to handle email. And my question is, if a person isn’t needed, why does that email even need to exist?

11.04.2025 13:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Photo of phone screen showing remaining time for firmware update and GNSS receiver

Photo of phone screen showing remaining time for firmware update and GNSS receiver

Downloading firmware updates at the bus stop.

01.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image of a stone archway in Limerick City with the words Hartican’s Horse Repository carved above it

Image of a stone archway in Limerick City with the words Hartican’s Horse Repository carved above it

Every repository has its own storage challenges am I right? @dri.ie

01.04.2025 13:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to be lecturing on place-making and archaeology for @catsporter.bsky.social in @ulgeog.bsky.social Historical Geography module!

26.03.2025 07:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Screen capture of radiocarbon plots with no identifying information of time scale or site.

Screen capture of radiocarbon plots with no identifying information of time scale or site.

The only snakes left in Ireland on this St Patrick’s Day seem to be these radiocarbon ranges slithering across the page.

17.03.2025 18:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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