For those of you attending, or interested, in the 11th ICAZ-AGPM meeting (International Council for Archaeozoology-Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics) October 14-17 in Copenhagen, the preliminary programme is available on our website! sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

"Within|Without: The Archaeology of Partitions", a conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. Join a day of dialogue on how we divide and connect across time. 🗓 Sat 18 Oct 2025, 9:15–17:30 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online: 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without

While at #Ploughing2025, the Irish Antiquities team spoke to @agriland.bsky.social about how farmers help protect Ireland’s archaeological heritage—and what they should do if they or anyone uncover artefacts. 🎥 Watch: www.agriland.ie/farming-vide...

One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️ More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

Be part of Within|Without, the archaeology conference exploring how partitions shape who we are. 🗓 Saturday 18 October 2025 🕘 9:15 AM – 5:30 PM 📍 Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin 🌍 In-person and online options 👉 bit.ly/Within-Without #WithinWithout2025 #NMSArchaeologyConference

🔨 See flint knapping in action! Join the Irish Antiquities team at the Culture, Creativity, Archaeology & Sport Marquee, Gov of Ireland Village, @ the #NationalPloughingChampionship today, Thurs 18 Sept, 11:30–12:15. Explore prehistoric tools & what they tell us! www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

Join the Irish Antiquities Division of the National Museum of Ireland for live craft demonstrations at the National Ploughing Championships 2025! Discover traditional skills and explore Ireland’s rich archaeological heritage in action. #ThePloughing www.museum.ie/en-IE/News/T...

@erc.europa.eu @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social Many thanks to all of the participants and attendees in EAA session #111 'Let's address the other-than-human animal in the room', which was held in-person at UCD on 3rd Sept 2025 #ANSOC #ERC #BronzeAge

@erc.europa.eu @ucdresearch.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @irarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social

As part of the #ANSOC project Prof Joana Brück's recent invited lecture ("Decolonising European prehistory") at the International Society of Biomolecular Archaeologists conference in Turin can now be viewed online! #BronzeAge #ERC media.unito.it?content=11522

Start your day the Iron Age way* (*In a pit full of animal body parts)

The Equine History Collective is hosting an online conference 26-27 September on horse senses, see the link below for the programme and registration form! 🐎 #animalhistory 🏇 equinehistory.org/2025/09/05/e...

Congratulations to Dr Penny Johnson, Eva Kourela and other contributors to the upcoming "Beneath Our Feet: Art & Archaeology Exhibition" 20 Sept–8 Oct, St Peters, Cork. It will feature the work of a range of archaeologist and artists and promises to be a great event. www.corkcity.ie/en/council-s...

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

There is a new paper as well - just released some hours after the press release. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🧵2/2 although the paper is in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, rather than iScience, as reported doi.org/10.3389/fear... for the correct source

Pork or beef preferred in the large late Bronze Age feasts #Archaeology www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Congrats to our project administrator Dr Paul Huddie @paulhuddie.bsky.social on his new book!

@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @irarchaeology.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social

The team is ready ✅ The venues are still standing ✅ The programme is live ✅ The tickets are on sale (and selling fast!) ✅ Then join us @ucddublin.bsky.social forthe Bronze Age Forum 2025! #BronzeAge #BAF2025 Spread the word and we'll see you in November! bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com

Online applications are open for the Newgrange Winter Solstice Lottery. Winners will experience the rare moment when sunlight floods the chamber at dawn. Free entry | Limited spaces | Apply now: solsticelottery.ie #Newgrange #WinterSolstice #HeritageIreland

Conall (chief dog of Ireland) is on the cover of Archaeology Ireland autumn issue!! @archaeologyirlmag #ArchaeologyIreland #archaeology #minischnauzer

Congratulations to Prof Aidan O’Sullivan & Dr Brendan O’Neill; Assoc Prof Jessica Smyth; Assoc Prof Neil Carlin; and Assoc Prof Helen Lewis on securing four of the 2024 Research Ireland COALESCE grants. www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc... @ucddublin.bsky.social @researchireland.ie

I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue. Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October. kevingdaly.github.io

Research Ireland’s COALESCE awards announced "The Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT) project seeks to create knowledge on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used and discarded things." www.researchireland.ie/news/coalesc...

@brusgaard.bsky.social congratulations with your ERC starting grant. Wish you lots of success. "WILDERFARM Where the wild things were: how the rise of farming changed human-wildlife relationships"

Second craziest thing you'll read today: from 2026 I will be leading an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant project. HERDPATH will explore how livestock and their pathogens co-evolved during the last 10,000 years. PhD advertisements to come! Press release below with one of the few good photos of me.

Given everything happening right now, this video is so wonderful. I'm not always sure we deserve dogs but we are definitely lucky to have them in our world

🏺🐒🐻‍❄️🦥 More information on the project and the position can be found here: zoogestures.uni-koeln.de/opportunities Please help me spread the word!

Interested in a Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin ? “Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme A salary of €47,273 in the first year of the award and €47,880 in the second year of the award eligible direct research expenses of €5,000 per annum

And the following book in two volumes: "Must Farm Pile - dwelling Settlement Volume 1. (2024) Edited by Mark Knight, Rachael Ballantyne, Matthew Brudenell, Answen Cooper, David Gibson and Iona Robinson Zeki

Robin Skeates proceeds to present the #EAA2025 Book Prize in Public Category to "Knowth" (2024) by Helena King, published by the Royal Irish Academy Many congratulations!!

We are trying to find a name for this old dog from 5th century Frisia. Join the contest @friesmuseum.bsky.social #zooarchaeology #archaeology #medievalanimals @animalhistory.bsky.social @animal-history.bsky.social @animalhistories.bsky.social @middleages4educate.bsky.social

#PressRelease 🗞️ Scientists knew that horses were first domesticated began during the third millennium BCE. Yet, the exact nature of the genetic modifications that transformed this animal into a vector for human mobility remained a mystery. 🐎 👉 www.cnrs.fr/en/press/ani...

Big news in 🐴 domestication from Xuexue Liu and colleagues led by Ludovic Orlando @cnrs.fr! Out now @science.org ancient horse genomes reveal genetic changes that contributed to making the animals tame, strong, and rideable 🏇 📄: scim.ag/3Jz8qhn #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4oWdlsJ

Big news in 🐴 domestication from Xuexue Liu and colleagues led by Ludovic Orlando @cnrs.fr! Out now @science.org ancient horse genomes reveal genetic changes that contributed to making the animals tame, strong, and rideable 🏇 📄: scim.ag/3Jz8qhn #SciencePerspective: scim.ag/4oWdlsJ

My student Louis L'Hôte presenting his work on ancient sheeppox virus at #isba11 #aDNA

The first paper of the special issue of World Archaeology that I co-edited with Sofia Figueiredo-Persson, Paul Pettitt and Sven Ouzman is now out! 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just been reminded that this was published about a month ago - a new (3rd) edition of The Archaeology of Britain. Very chuffed to be a co-author of a chapter on the middle and late Neolithic. Add it to your student intro reading lists! www.routledge.com/The-Archaeol...

Dear all! Bronze Age was nominated for exhibition of the year by Museumtijdschift 🥳 Will you vote and help us win! That would make for a very happy curator and museum!!! 🔥Help je Bronstijd aan goud? Stem ook! www.tentoonstellingsprijs.nl

Shameless promotion from #isba11 - I'll be hiring PhDs to start early 2026 (plus postdocs starting later), using #adna to study livestock and pathogen coevolution, particularly looking at inbreeding and immune gene evolution! Contact me at kevin[at]palaeome.org, full ad to come. Please share!

Late Iron Age and Roman equine breeding north of the Alps: Genetic insights and cultural implications: iScience www.cell.com/iscience/ful... Several members (Azadeh Mohaseb, Thomas Cucchi, Marjan Mashkour) of the UMR BioArch- CNRS/ MNHN contributed to this paper.

👇 🦦🐂🦫🐘🐻‍❄️🐎

More late Neolithic animals moving about, telling their stories through science: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.independent.ie/irish-news/h... The pigs were deliberately fattened on acorns in oak forests for a period prior to being slaughtered at Newgrange, mainly during midwinter feasting conducted around 2,600 to 2,450BC

Congrats to UCD Archaeology's Dr Neil Carlin & colleagues on their new Open Access paper: Guiry, E, et al (2025) 'Pigs, pannage, and the solstice: isotopic insights from prehistoric feasting at Newgrange' out this morning in the Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 1/3 doi.org/10.1017/ppr....

Bronze Age Forum 2025 Conference Programme We are delighted to share our conference programme, which will see over 50 papers on a wide range of topics across the three days of the meeting at @ucddublin.bsky.social. bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAgeForum

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

📢 The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age by Lira Garrido, J., ... Cardoso, J. L. … Orlando, L., in Nature Communications. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...