Do check out this new paper by our own Mhairi Gibson & colleagues! This study has important information for policy makers seeking to change attitudes and norms to violence against women and girls 👇

Congratulations Rayane! A Postdoctoral Researcher on the Infracursions Project (PI @amypenfield.bsky.social), Rayane has been recently featured in the Brazilian media as a ‘scholar to watch’, being commended for leading work on sustainability. Check it out: www.estadao.com.br/150-anos/ter...

🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants! Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

Congratulations to our very own, @helenfewlass.bsky.social, on her ERC Starting Grant win!!! We’re proud and happy! Can’t wait to see you and your new team do amazing science 🧪 🙌🏽

'There is much more to be found beneath the waves' PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Isabella Gilmour comments on the discovery of artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus in a new piece for @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/new-finds-sh...

Time for you to get to know another of our staff members! Tune in to hear from Stuart Prior, a Professor of Archaeology 📺 Full interview in our IG account (bristolantharch). Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Time for you to get to know another of our staff members! Tune in to hear from Kit Opie, a Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology 📺 Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Congratulations to Lorena and colleagues! 👏 🙌

'This inquiry promises to listen to survivors, without filtering the parts that are uncomfortable to hear.' Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Daniel Taggart consider the Casey Report in a new piece for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-the-new...

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Ever wondered what #Anthropology is all about? Let our staff tell you! Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

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The time has come for you all to meet our fearless leader, Prof Mark Gillings, a brilliant archaeologist 🏮🗡 Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Congratulations to @drsarahmyers.bsky.social, our own Mhairi and colleagues on this paper! 🙌 Check it out through the link 👇

Interested in some good ol' flint knapping? Check out our PhD student, Nick, teaching our undergraduate cohort all about it 😎 Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺 Next up is @drcamimorelli.bsky.social, a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at our department. Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Well done to the organisers! 🙌🏽

Some images from our Postgraduate Symposium last week! Planned and delivered by our brilliant student community 👏

Congrats Lorena and colleagues! 🙌🏽

Register and join us for this lecture on the 21st of May 👇🏽

🌎 How did humans respond to the impact of climate change 10,000 years ago? Dr Lorena Becerra-Valdivia (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) introduces us to her @leverhulme.ac.uk project which tackles this question head on in a new Arts Matter blog Read more 👉 bit.ly/42K9bLP @lorenabecval.bsky.social

Want to have a quick glimpse into the daily life of a PhD in Archaeology student? Follow Dan Brown in this clip! Created by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

'More than 100 years after the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, new interpretations of the burial are still emerging' PhD @bristolantharch.bsky.social candidate Claire Gilmour reflects on the seemingly ordinary objects found in the tomb for The Conversation theconversation.com/tutankhamun-...

Really enjoyed giving the talk - thanks for inviting me @radicalanthro.bsky.social Sharing with @bristolantharch.bsky.social

Check out our MA in #Anthropology newsletter for Spring 2025 through the link & find out all about our new Creative Anthropology Space (AKA, the Wonderlab) 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/media-librar...

Congratulations to @adomph.bsky.social on his new publication! Heron, A. P., & Esprit, S. (2025). Pedagogies of Survival: Research, Disaster and Repair in Dominica. In Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies (pp. 61-74). Routledge. Check out through the link 👇 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

📻 Dr Kit Opie (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) joins BBC CrowdScience on the World Service to discuss mating systems in primates and early humans Listen to the full programme 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @kitopie.bsky.social @carolinesteel.bsky.social

Delighted to have had our Newton International Fellow (@royalsociety.org & @britishacademy.bsky.social ), Gordon Omenya, giving the final BAARS session of the current academic year! Gorden presented on his fascinating work with the Makonde people of Kenya. Check out some pics 👇

Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺 Next up is Fiona Jordan, a Professor of Anthropology at our department. Warning: snake 🐍 Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendock-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Congratulations to @lorenabecval.bsky.social for this publication! 🙌

Time to get to know more of our staff! 📺 Next up is Amy Penfield (@amypenfield.bsky.social), a Lecturer in Social Anthropology in our department. Clip made by Bianca Li and Naia Lewendon-Wicks from @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

Yesterday we hosted the brilliant Dr @poojaswali.bsky.social from the UCL Genetics Institute at BAARS. Her talk was titled, 'Working on pathogen evolution using aDNA' 🧬

Listen to our own @kitopie.bsky.social on this episode of CrowdScience (BBC Sounds) talk about the mating systems of our closest primate relatives 🔈 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Tune in on Tuesday for this talk with our own, @kitopie.bsky.social! 👇

🔈 Nice to see our new paper, 'Ancient Proboscidean-Ivory Artifacts from Northwestern Venezuela', now published! Thanks to Jorge Carrillo-Briceño, Marcelo Sánchez-Villagra and colleagues for the invitation to contribute. They are a pleasure to work with! Link 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to Naia and Bianca for filming these for the Dept! It's been fun seeing how colleagues responded to these questions, looking forward to the next instalments!

Today’s BAARS with Ines Ruis Alvarado (Universidad Cientifica del Sur), ‘Defenders of the Territory: Amazonian Women-Leaders and the Way to Gender Equality’ 👇🏽 #Anthropology

📽️ Time to get to know another staff member! Today we present Dr William Tantam (@wtantam.bsky.social), one of our amazing lecturers in #Anthropology 🙌

Successful Offer Day today with parents and potential students 🙌🏽 Thanks to everyone for coming out! We hope you enjoyed all the events 🙏🏽

Just another reason to register for the CMS PGR conference! 😮We're lucky enough to have project exhibitions by SWARP (of @bristolantharch.bsky.social) and @mappingthemarch.bsky.social! #medievalsky Register today at: shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-...

Today’s talk on BAARS was given by Dr Natalia Valdivieso Kastner on ‘Evangelising nature in the Anthropocene: Environmental and social justice in the Amazon’. Natalia currently works with @amypenfield.bsky.social on her @erc.europa.eu project 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Time to get to know more of our staff! Next up is @adomph.bsky.social, a Lecturer in Visual Anthropology at our Department. 🎥 Clip made by Bianca Li & Naia Lewendon-Wicks from Film & TV at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

I really enjoyed contributing to this GDI podcast on interdisciplinarity with @filipemfranca.bsky.social and Lucas Alencar! Have a listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2017560/epis...

Listen to our own @amypenfield.bsky.social in this @globaldevinst.bsky.social podcast on Interdisciplinary approaches to conservation 🔈

Time to get to know more of our staff! Next up is the brilliant Juan Zhang, a Social Anthropologist at our department. 🎥 Clip made by Bianca Li & Naia Lewendon-Wicks from Film & TV at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

📽️ Dr William Tantam (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) & Dr Susanna Alyce introduce their REPHRAIN project which explores survivors' experiences of online-facilitated child sexual abuse to inform support strategies Watch the full video to learn more about this important research 👉 bit.ly/4igrIEq

Want to know how we use radiocarbon dating to tell how old buildings are? Tune into BBC Radio Bristol today during lunchtime to hear our own, @lorenabecval.bsky.social, a radiocarbon specialist and archaeological scientist, explain it all! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Time to get to know our wonderful staff! First up is @helenfewlass.bsky.social, a Lecturer in Archaeology and fan of old bones 🦴 & caves ⛰️

Want to have a look at our department (and some flint knapping)? Have look below👇📽️ Video created by the wonderful Naia Lewendon-Wicks & Bianca Li, 3rd-year Film & TV BA students at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social.

This week at BAARS we had our very own Dr Amy Penfield, recent @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant recipient, talk to us about 'Boom and bust subjectivities in informal gold mining economies'.