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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The program of the Symposium on Animals and Power in the Ancient Near East, taking place on 28/10/2026 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, is now available. Registration is open until 23 October 2026 using the link below. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #ICAZ #Zooarch

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

UCD's Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture's (CEAMC) researchers bring the past to life through the practice of ancient technologies and crafts. It is one of the few dedicated, full-scale, on-campus facilities for experimental archaeological research. www.ucd.ie/research/inf...

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Reconstructing the past

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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at UCD is a unique place where researchers are recreating ancient technologies to gain deeper insights into how people lived in the past. #AncientWorld_UCD #TheStoriesThatShapeUs Learn more: www.ucd.ie/research/inf... youtu.be/ZJDnN0K62Ww

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The Ancient World: Reconstructing the Past

YouTube video by UCD Research

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Louis L'Hôte @louis-lhote.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please have a look at our article on TheConversation.com about our recent work on ancient animal viruses found in parchment! Co-written with @gingerhowley.bsky.social and Mike Herd. (Cool pics of @gingerhowley.bsky.social making parchments in the article) theconversation.com/ancient-viru...

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Ancient virus hunters: how we discovered sheeppox DNA hidden in medieval gospels

DNA can survive in parchment for well over a thousand years.

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Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love how genomic analyses keep dismantling the concept that species cannot interbreed. Even better, ancient introgression often facilitates diversity in a domestic context. New paper shows this is in pigs too! www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... A thrill to be a small part of a giant piggy effort!

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Ancient introgression drives wild boar expansion and phenotypic diversification of domestic pigs

Despite the ubiquity of wild boar populations across Eurasia, their origins, routes of dispersal, and phenotypic evolution remain uncertain. Here, using 745 genomes representing populations across Eur...

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Join us on Thurs 24 Sept for an evening of Archaeology: 🔍 Prehistoric Ireland: In-Gallery Talk (5pm) 🏆 Late Evening Archaeology Discovery Tour (6.30pm) 📍 National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street 🎟️ Free | Drop-in museum.ie/en-IE/News/Dublin-by-Dusk-at-the-National-Museum-of-Ireland #DublinByDusk

Promotional poster for Dublin by Dusk at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 3. Bold typography announces free evening events on Thursday 24 September. Free admission to the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology

Promotional poster for a Prehistoric Ireland in-gallery talk at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin. Features an image of a carved prehistoric stone artefact and details of a free event on Thursday 24 September from 17:00 to 18:00, led by archaeologist and museum curator Dr Bernard Gilhooly. Explore artefacts from the museum's Prehistoric Ireland exhibition. No booking required

Promotional poster for Late Evening Discovery Tours at the National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin. Shows a museum visitor viewing archaeological objects in a display case. Free guided tour on Thursday 24 September at 18:30 exploring Ireland's national archaeological collection, including gold and silver artefacts. No booking required.

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

First time ever in Vienna, better get working on the lecture "looking forward to welcoming Aidan O’Sullivan from University College Dublin for HEAS Keynote on Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Storytelling" 12 November 2026 at 15:30, Theatresaal at the Austrian Academy of Sciences"

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🔬📜 “The recording of ancient DNA of pathogens has completely changed our understanding of infectious disease in the past, and here we show that parchment can also preserve animal pathogen DNA." - Louis L’Hôte, the study’s lead author and a PhD student at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science

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Scientists Extracted DNA From Medieval Parchment—and Found a Hidden Disease

The 3,500-year history of sheeppox was written into the books—quite literally.

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tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Registration for TAG 2026 is now open! We have early bird prices until 22 October 2026. Head over to our website to book your place now! Register here: tag2026.square.site/registration

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

UCD School of Archaeology team, 2025/26!

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Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 18/09/2026

A wonderful workshop at the @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social! Dr Ryan Lash helped us to carve blessing [or cursing!] stones like at the early monastery of Inishmurray While Dr Brendan O'Neill led us through the process of casting a bronze age axe — like magic when it finally emerges! #Ireland

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

‘A Book of Sites: River Great Ouse floodplain and mid-stream islands investigation’ 📕🔓 Congrats Mark Haughton, MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow, on his contributions to this major Open Access volume. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🕵️‍♀️🏰 One of Dublin’s “lost” medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin’s Roebuck Castle. @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social #archaeology

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Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Roebuck Castle at UCD has been making the news. In the latest Archaeology Ireland, Prof. Tadhg O’Keeffe examines the medieval remains concealed within this familiar campus landmark. Read the article: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/15823... RTÉ report: www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

𝐎𝐍𝐄 𝐖𝐄𝐄𝐊 𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 - 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝟏 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭 & 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓-𝟐𝟎𝟑𝟎 Date: Friday 25th September 2026 Time: 11.00-13.00 Register for free: events.teams.microsoft.com/.../d388983e.... Image: Churchclara, Co. Offaly, ©Photographic Archive, NMS

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The Prehistoric Society @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

25th Sara Champion memorial lecture will be held in London on Mon 12th October. Lecture will be given by Dr Matt Hitchcock, Univ. of Leicester, on 'Miniature Histories: Using wear and compositional analysis to tell new stories about Bronze & Iron Age copper alloy objects' #Archaeology 🏺 1/3

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Archaeology Ireland Magazine @archiremag.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

📣 Meet the Speaker: Dr Mark Haughton 📍 Passing time in Bronze Age Ireland What can archaeology tell us about recreation and everyday life in Ireland’s prehistoric past? 📌 Pastimes: The Archaeology of Recreation 🗓 10 October 2026 📍 Trinity College Dublin 🎟 bit.ly/3OABLuR

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Have you checked out our YouTube channel yet? Stay tuned for a new interview this Friday! www.youtube.com/@ICAZSocialM... #ICAZ #Zooarch

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Harbour Publishing @harbourpublishing.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A wonderful review of The Teachings of Mutton appears in the spring issue of BC Studies: "By presenting multiple voices rather than a single authoritative narrative, the book disrupts the structure of academic authorship itself." bcstudies.com/book_film_re...

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The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog | BC Studies

The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog brings forward a history that, for many Coast Salish people, was never fully gone—only interrupted, misnamed, or held in places that did not know how...

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A&K No. 49 is here! This time, we’re spotlighting Erika Gal, whose work in Romania and Hungary has been instrumental in the development of archaeornithology, alongside her important contributions to zooarchaeology. 🐦 Curious to discover her research? Here’s one of her books to get you started!

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Fowling in Lowlands | Archaeolingua

Series Minor No. 24 Budapest, Archaeolingua, 2007 Puhakötés | Paper book, 23.5 × 16.5 cm 152 oldal, színes és fekete-fehér illusztrációkkal | 152 pages with colored and grayscale images Table of conte...

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

ZOOARCH, aka the way zooarchaeologists talk to each other, support each other, and learn from each other, was created in 2000 by Umberto Albarella and Jacqui Mulville. To join, you can find more information by following the link: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba....

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UHI Institute for Northern Studies @insuhi.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Professor Mairéad Nic Craith UHI Institute for Northern Studies features in a BBC Future article.....Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

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Eagles and wolves: The long-lost animals that live on in Irish place names

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

An Open Access publication exploring 21 sites A Book of Sites: River Great Ouse floodplain and mid-stream islands investigations by Christopher Evans, Joshua Pollard and Mark Haughton is available as a free download. doi.org/10.17863/CAM...

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tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With the extended deadline for paper proposals coming to a close on Monday, we are back with yet another story of loss and persistence!

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Terry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's a fascinating, rigorous piece of research that questions quite a few well-known 'dog' burials, and underlines that 'domesticated' and 'tame' are not the same thing.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Work on the preserved animal tracks along the bottom of the Flag Fen Basin at Must Farm suggested the shape and size are indicative they were created by cattle and are reminiscent of similar ones discovered nearby at Bradley Fen.

Detail of excavated preserved animal hoofprints.

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Running across the middle of this image, above the scale, is a series of animal tracks from Must Farm. Travelling along the bottom of the Flag Fen Basin the tracks went to and from the wet hollow and were probably part of the daily route of small groups of animals moving between pastures.

An overhead view of an area of preserved animal tracks crossing an area of the excavation.

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ICAZ @icaz-news.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The ZOOARCH listserv was created by Umberto Albarella and Jacqui Mulville, and is a JISCmail list that promotes the flow of ideas, skills, information, and offers support to fellow zooarchaeologists. To join, you can find more information by following the link; www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

‘The Castle on the Campus’ 🏰In 'Archaeology Ireland' Prof. Tadhg O’Keeffe explores a medieval castle in the grounds of UCD. Building on Beranger’s eighteenth-century illustration, historical sources and standing architecture it explores one of the Dublin castles long assumed to have been lost.

O'Keeffe, T. 2026. The castle on the campus. Archaeology Ireland 40(3), 31-38.

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📕🚨Prof Peter Mitchell (@sthughscollege.bsky.social)'s latest book tells the story of the very special place dogs have held in our lives through time 🐾🐕‍🦺 #bestfriends 'First Dogs - Hunter-Gatherers & Their Canine Companions' #dogsofBluesky #domestication #rockart #prehistory #dogs #genetics #ecology

The book cover has a rock art painting of a hunter accompanied by three dogs

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Our archaeological investigations at Ferriter’s Cove were on TG4 Nuacht this week. The news piece begins at 6 minutes, 18 seconds: www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se... For further information: 🐻‍❄️ www.ucd.ie/.../kerrycow... 🐗 www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What's our MSc in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture like, at UCD? Watch this www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

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MSc in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture- UCD School of Archaeology

YouTube video by UCD College of Social Sciences & Law

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Aidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bhí muid ar TG4 Nuacht, agus mé ag iarraidh Gaeilge a labhairt! We were on Ireland’s Irish language station TG4 News & me trying to speak Irish. Begins 6 mins, 16 seconds Story about Martin’s & Graeme’s investigations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers at Ferriter’s Cove www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se...

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@martinmoucheron.bsky.social and my recent fieldwork at Ferriter's Cove featured on TG4 (Irish language) news. Starts at 6.18. Support from @researchireland.ie, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, @nationalmons.bsky.social. Tx to Sean Mac an tSithigh for the story. www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se...

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Seinnteoir | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile

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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

By combining the study of manuscripts with even older samples from Bronze Age sheep teeth, the study reveals that Sheeppox has threatened livestock for over 3,700 years. Full story: www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

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Hidden DNA in medieval gospels reveal history of deadly livestock virus

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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our paper on ancient sheeppox virus genomes, including many found from parchment samples, is now published af Science Advances. Congrats to all our co-authors and particularly first author Louis. #aDNA share.google/JqVOTB2lvxcO...

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Three thousand five hundred years of sheeppox virus evolution inferred from archaeological and codicological genomes

Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 02/09/2026

Ancient parchments, covered in ancient disease DNA! Researchers led by @ucddublin.bsky.social's @gingerhowley.bsky.social recover the genes of a deadly animal pathogen from medieval manuscripts. @science.org

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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment

Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged

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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

“How Wool Transformed Prehistoric Ireland" Congrats to Dr Mark Horton, MSCA Postdoc Scholar, featured in the Irish Farmers Journal in August following his presentation at the Agricultural History Society of Ireland (AHSI) conference in Leenane, Co Galway. www.farmersjournal.ie/news/news/tr...

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richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@ansoc-erc.bsky.social Hey Jo B (I presume you are attached to this?) I saw this the other day and I thought of you. It's a wee boss on an MBA vessel from Sudbury in Suffolk, and I can see absolutely no other reason to have poked holes either side than to make it look even more like a nose. Love it

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Nelson J. Almeida @njasosayweall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 27/08/2026

New research has rewritten a key chapter in Irish prehistory, revealing that bones long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland belong to bear and wild boar, not cattle. Read more on @news.rte.ie: www.rte.ie/news/munster... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucc.ie

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🏺 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Some really lovely tidbits of information in this new paper on the genetics of people buried in monuments in southwestern Britain. Paper itself emphasis the reuse of Early Neolithic funerary monuments for burial by incoming Beaker-using groups, around a thousand...

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Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Diachronic reuse of Neolithic burial monuments by Bronze Age newcomers in Southwestern Britain

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

'Medieval Warhorse will be the indispensable guide and accompaniment for all future work in this area, its achievement built certainly on the breadth and depth of data assembled.' Learn more about this brilliant book: bit.ly/3SdZ3se

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Visit from Gabriel Cooney and @aidanosullivan.bsky.social today - here being shown around by Deborah @naikaiouk.bsky.social . And traditional last day recording! Five eroding sections of (presumably) Final Mesolithic archaeology cleaned, sampled and recorded. Now back to Dublin and some analysis...

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

If you have memories, photographs, stories or legends about dogs on excavations, surveys, field camps or archaeological projects, please share them here. I suspect there is a whole unofficial history of archaeology told through its dogs. #archaeology #dogs dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/22/f...

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Field Dogs

What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.

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Dimitrij Mlekuz Vrhovnik @dimitrij.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Field Dogs, piece about dogs as part of archaeological fieldwork: hanging around trenches, following routines, noticing excitement, waiting through boredom, sharing camps, meals, dust, and all the strange rhythms of excavation. dimitrij.splet.arnes.si/2026/08/22/f...

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Field Dogs

What does an archaeological excavation look like to a dog? A fragment about field dogs, archaeological distance, attention, sociality, and the gaze that puts archaeologists back into the frame.

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