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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe

@ansoc-erc.bsky.social
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ANSOC is creating a new vision of the Bronze Age with animals as active participants in past social worlds ansoc.net Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin

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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Huge congratulations to our colleague (and former project member) Dr @fjhuisman.bsky.social on the publication of her new book (and PhD dissertation) ‘Wild wetlands and domestic drylands’ with BAR Publishing #ANSOC #BronzeAge
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Massive thanks from the ANSOC team & @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social to all of our brilliant colleagues & to our partners Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service & @nmireland.bsky.social for a wildly successful #BronzeAgeForum @ucddublin.bsky.social!!! We had the best time!!!
A group of archaeologists from University College Dublin standing in front of the gold exhibit at the National Museum of Ireland Archaeology
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Our sincerest thanks to @nationalmons.bsky.social for sending us so many wonderful items to share with our interantional delegates at #BronzeAgeForum 2025 #BronzeAge #archaeology @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @ucdresearch.bsky.social
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Day 1 at #BronzeAgeForum 2025 @ucddublin.bsky.social delegates are arriving, badges and programmes in hand, and a quick coffee and chat before we get going #BronzeAge #archaeology #ANSOC
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Join us today @ucddublin.bsky.social for the #BronzeAgeForum 2025 Brought to you by @ansoc-erc.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, Transport Infrastructure Ireland, National Monuments Service and @nmireland.bsky.social #BronzeAge Follow the signs!
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social This week the #ANSOC team are putting the final touches to the Bronze Age Forum 2025, which takes place @ucddublin.bsky.social on 14-16 November. Final programme and abstracts are now on bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com A few final tickets remain #BronzeAge
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@kristinaoma.bsky.social: "Those death did not part. Human-dog burials in Iron Age Northern Norway." @yrjaskj.bsky.social: "Encounters in Stone: Red Deer - Human Relationships in the Late Mesolithic Rock Art site Vingen" @phoebe-liu.bsky.social: "The origins of animal transactions in Britain"
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@nnicaoidh.bsky.social: "Cattle-gorisation? : nonhuman animal taxonomies in Nordic Bronze Age rock art"
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@fjhuisman.bsky.social: "Where the cattle roam – The landscape and environmental context of Bronze Age animal architecture"
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@eswallow.bsky.social: "‘Refuse’-ing the dismissal of the everyday: investigating the deposition of disarticulated animal remains in Bronze Age Europe"
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Kate Kanne: "Bridging all the binaries: integrating contemporary theory with scientific approaches to archaeological animals."
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Papers given included: @alexsiekmann.bsky.social: "Ancient Livestock, Ancient Genes: The Genetics of Bronze Age Cattle and Sheep in Britain and the Netherlands."
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
@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
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @irarchaeology.bsky.social 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 #BronzeAgeForum
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
BRONZE AGE FORUM 2025 The deadline for abstract submissions to this year's Bronze Age Forum at @ucddublin.bsky.social and hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social is Friday 27th June 2025. Submit your abstract today! #BronzeAge #ANSOC #zooarchaeology
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
We are delighted to announce that the Bronze Age Forum will be hosted by UCD School of Archaeology, 14-16 Nov 2025, with kind support of @nationalmons.bsky.social, TII and @nmireland.bsky.social. For info see bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com #BronzeAge #Archaeology
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
For our final introduction of the week on this #FelineFriday, we have the glorious Albert in repose, manager of our ERC Research Project Manager, and military historian, Dr Paul Huddie! #CatsOfHistorians
Albert, an orange cat, lays on a bed with a white duvet with a blue stripe
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Continuing #CatsOfPrehistorians & ANSOC team introductions are Roger Daltrey (18 years old), and his annoying little adopted sister, Princess Leia (12 years old), relaxing after a long day working as PhD researcher Eleanor Swallow's assistant, collating & interpreting animal deposits #Archaeology
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Or if you’ve only got human skeleton decorations in your common room and have to improvise
A Thanksgiving “hand turkey” stuck to a window made from a window cling of the bones of a human hand and colourful paper. The turkey has his head turned is looking at the viewer. His name is Chad and he is very silly
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Next up for the ANSOC team, and our very industrious #CatsOfPrehistorians, is Dr Floor Huisman @fjhuisman.bsky.social , a postdoc working on our #AnimalArchitectures, and Tommy 'the tuxedo cat' who is helping to review her work and making sure she takes regular (petting!) breaks. #Archaeology #Cats
Tommy, a black tuxedo cat, is sitting on a manuscript on a desk looking at the computerTommy the black and white tuxedo cat is resting on a manuscript on a desk with a computer behind him, asking Floor (not pictured) to take a break and pet him
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Massive thanks to all of our new followers!!! To introduce our team & project, we thought we'd do it via our animal friends. First up is Willow, "assisting" Prof Jo Brück, our projectPI, in lecture prep! #Archaeology #cats @ucddublin.bsky.social people.ucd.ie/joanna.bruck
Professor Jo Brück, a dark haired woman with glasses and a blue sweater & her cat Willow, a black & white cat, looking at her A black and white cat rests on top of a laptop computer and keyboard with the sun streaming in from a window
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Professor Joanna Bruck of UCD School of Archaeology was awarded €2.5million for her research project back in 2022. See full details about this project and its Principal Investigator at ucdsocscilaw.info/ERC #ERCAdG
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