Congratulations to Dr Claire Cave and Conor McDermott on receiving College of Social Sciences and Law College Principal Awards 2026. We are delighted that our colleagues Assoc. Prof. Meriel McClatchie, School Manager Belinda Whitby and Student Administrator Lisa Rogers also received nominations.
We are looking forward to welcoming #KevinDaly for a #HEASTalk taking place online and in-person at the #UBB at @univie.ac.at this Friday.
Registration is on our website 👇🔗
www.heas.at/events/heas-...
Colour photo of an excavated, preserved tree stump of an oak that grew in the Early Bronze Age
The preserved stumps of oak trees survive below the Flag Fen post-alignment. Part of a submerged forest, these trees belong to a Early Bronze Age terrestrial landscape that pre-dates the rising groundwater table that turned these low-lying contours into a fen embayment. #BogOaks #Fenland #FlagFen 🏺
Excellent news!
The modules, funded as part of the @rewildarch.bsky.social project led by Dr Anwen Cooper of OA, will help users to engage with and present palaeoenvironmental data in engaging and interesting formats without compromising accuracy 🌱
We are excited to announce the launch of Fen to Fire, a living reconstruction of the Late Bronze Age Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement that we’ve worked to create with digital artist Guy Schofield and pupils from Cromwell Community College in Chatteris.
Delighted that @drclairenolan.bsky.social has joined @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social as Project Researcher for @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project.
PP examines how deep-time past, is used in environmental policy. Claire is a fabulous addition to the team!
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Next week: a fascinating talk by Prof. Aidan O'Sullivan & Dr. Brendan O'Neill, who will talk on how people in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, made, used & discarded things. This FREE online event will take place on Mon 27 April at 1930. Make sure to reserve your spot here:
“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (eds. 2026, by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan)
Available for a period at reduced price, use website and voucher code as below
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
‘A Millet Odyssey: a kaleidoscopic journey through the time, matter, and memory of a crop’
Dr Andrés Teira-Brión, BIOPOLIS/CIBIO – University of Porto
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Seminar Series.
Tue 21 Apr, 4:00–5:00pm. Ardmore Annex Seminar Room
@ucddublin.bsky.social, @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social
Only one month to go until the AaRC Conference!
There’s still time to sign up- whether you’d like to give a talk or simply attend.
Abstract deadline 30th of April!
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Hooray! Our @britishacademy.bsky.social Prehistoric Policies project now has a website 👇👇👇👇.
PP examines how & why contemporary environmental policy makes claims about the deep time human past, and why that matters!
Congrats to Dr Ben Spillane for winning the Peter Woodman award! A very well-deserved win!
#iaiconference #iai2026conference #archaeology #irisharchaeology
Really excited about our new paper that’s just been published. We’ve been working on developing rapid zooarchaeological peptide sex estimation and have applied this to a super interesting site from Iron Age Yorkshire! You can read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Lynn Scarff, James Eogan and Fiona Eogan in the stacks. Image by Emma Skarstrand © National Museum of Ireland
📚Newly catalogued: The George Eogan Library
Former Museum Librarian Connie Bettison reflects on cataloguing Prof. George Eogan’s working library-2,000+ archaeology books & journals in the National Museum of Ireland Library
www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
#Archaeology #MuseumLibrary #RegistrationCorner
Now Bluesky seems to have returned to normal here is our special issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue with World Archaeology.
Lots of really interesting perspectives on how to understand death mediated and found in domestic spaces.
Thanks to everyone involved!
Particularly enjoyed this "journey through a cow" on my walk to work this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Very meditative and illuminating, and I'm glad to get some time to seriously think about Neolithic dung during our ReNew project!
🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The 15th ICAZ International Conference will be held next year in Vancouver. Call for Sessions closes 31st of May 2026. For more details check out our website sway.cloud.microsoft/BFTVh4FAbfX6... or email icaz2027vancouver@gmail.com.
#ICAZ #zooarch #Vancouver2027
Our IAI 2026 Conference is nearly here! Make sure you've booked your ticket, as we won't be selling them at the door & sales end tomorrow evening - 15 April 2026. Tickets can be booked here buff.ly/mcSowXv & we look forward to seeing everyone this weekend! #iai2026conference #irisharchaeology
“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe”, edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O’Sullivan (April 2026)
Archaeopress will be ‘publishing’ the book online before this weekend, and the discount code will be working at that point too.
1/ Good morning, Europe! Now that you're awake, I'll make a little thread about what we are doing in this paper!
This is part of a special issue on kinship in archaeology ed by @pennyend.bsky.social, Sabina Cvecek and Manaasa Raghavan. All the articles and the three commentaries are very worthwhile
Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.
yaaay!
Really pleased this collaboration with @carlyschuster.bsky.social is finally published! We lean on queer feminist theory to discuss kinship as a dynamic set of relations and map their flow around funerary rites - we see burials as cannily assembled, not simple mirrors of the living world
Dynamic new edited volume on the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago.
I do enjoy that term just to for the opportunity to say ‘archipelago.’
www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
“Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” (edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O’Sullivan: April 2026, published by Archaeopress, Bicester, Medieval Settlement Research Group (MRSRG)
available to pre-order
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
Just around the corner.
Last few days to sign up for the free workshop on relatedness with @jolijnerven.bsky.social!
‘What is experimental archaeology, or what we do at UCD CEAMC, in 7 minutes!’ Available as VIDEO on UCD Centre for
Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture channel. A video created for UCD Earth Institute, for the EPA's #StoryOfYourStuff Schools' competition
www.youtube.com/watch?v=44_3...
🌟Kinship Trouble: Virtual Launch🌟
Join us on Tuesday, 14 April at 5pm CET/4pm BST/11am ET. Register below. We will present our special issue in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, co-edited w @pennybickle.bsky.social & @genscapelab.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology
therai.org.uk/events/cambr...
Coming soon! My (and friends') new book: link.springer.com/book/9783032.... Enjoy #milwelfhist #military #welfare