iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

.. and it is wilder and weirder than I ever hoped 🥰 episodes with @donomeara.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social out soon!!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Teaser for S2 of ‘The Archaeology Of…’! Watch S1 here youtube.com/@lancashirea... or listen wherever you get podcasts. And look out for the deepest of deep dives into niche topics in S2 #archaeology

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Tune in tonight for episode 2 of the Dawn of music! 21:45 on bbc r3 — bullroarers and a lovely bit of Bowie. The prehistory of the music of green and growing things www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, Whispers of Wood

When did we learn to make music from plants? Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I am soooo excited for #tx of my little radio show! First ep tonight, starting with the beautiful voice of my uncle chris hassett. it’s #prehistory it’s #voice it’s #archaeology and just a bit family. What a joy to make ❤️ on bbc radio 3 every night this week at 21:45! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, The Dawn of Music, A Secret Chord

When did we, as a species, start to sing? Dr Brenna Hassett unearths our musical origins.

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Is #englandfootball legend #harrykane… actually also the world’s best #neanderthal impersonator??? 😂🙏 youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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Dr. Jennifer Jones @jenniferbones.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Sadly my team got sent off for cannibalism which is a bit awkward....

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In honour of #worldcup #englandvsghana… why we are not a football podcast 😅 youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

#seasonfinale! The #archaeology of… Neanderthal World Cup?!? #spainvswales might not have happened recently bit why not bring the middle Palaeolithic into it? #friendoftheshow dr jen & dr rick go Neanderthal skull to, well, teeth in our increasingly chaotic season finale 🙌❤️ youtu.be/yqzp0Fg1Feg?...

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primate pals 🦍🦧 @primatepals.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

kids these days don’t even know how to manage one baboon, let alone multiple

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Look if you’re not teaching your children baboon-based arboriculture what are you doing…??? youtu.be/0vR0vrvAQ6M?... New episode of The Archaeology of… Childhood (part 2, with more archaeology in) w @brennawalks.bsky.social @jenniferbones.bsky.social

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Catch up with dubious medical advice from Dr Jim (not that kind of dr). More #evolutionaryanthropology and life history stuff on episode 7 on The Archchaeology of… Childhood w @brennawalks.bsky.social youtu.be/ILLSt6IPrcw?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

🚨🚨🚨New episode alert!!! 🚨🚨🚨 @brennawalks.bsky.social says you’re weird, even for a primate, and generally throws shade at early anthros in episode 8: The Archaeology of…Childhood youtu.be/ILLSt6IPrcw?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Catch up with Episode 3, where we offer some controversial dental advice for dead people in The Archaeology of… Dental Biographies ! youtu.be/6ONRaa56rEE?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

🚨New episode!!!!! It’s The Archaeology of… yeah actually it’s still Norman Castles. Dr Jim got so distracted by the Norman’s last time (and a call about going to B&Q) we had to do a double episode just to get to his awesome fieldwork at Lowther Castle. Expect Cumbria jokes 🙌 youtu.be/h2hKIhZxVN8?...

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S01 Ep07 The Archaeology of... Norman Castles part 2

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Jim’s main mission in this episode of ‘The Archaeology of…’ is to destroy Brenna’s dreams 😂🙌 at least the ones relevant to Norman castles 😂😅 youtube.com/shorts/AkeUe...

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Ruining dreams of stone castles #archaeology #podcast #history #castle

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I genuinely learned something about British archaeology, despite my best efforts

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

🚨New episode!!! It’s the Archaeology of…Norman Castles!! In which Dr Jim Morris tries to explain what every schoolchild should know about castles, and why it is wrong. Also, Brenna wonders about pigs. Watch or listen now! youtu.be/rDqAi3e5Ylo?...

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S01 Ep6 The Archaeology of... Norman Castles part 1

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

In honour of the annual first years phenomenology walk tomorrow, we give you this glorious auditory treasure 🎶 youtube.com/watch?v=OAPV...

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Sound of Theory by Shanks & Garfinkle

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

The typo!!! Cave bears!! Or… are they? 🚗🧸

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

. @brennawalks.bsky.social wants you to tell her about late Pleistocene megafauna. But she wants you to do it in Ladas. 🚗 New episode The Archaeology of… car bears!!! Out now ;) youtu.be/JiK8L_JRmh8?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

New episode!!! It’s The archaeology of… Cave Bears!!! With the fabulous Dr Jones (Jen. Who is a real archaeologist, unlike certain other Dr Jones we could mention) youtu.be/JiK8L_JRmh8

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S01 Ep05 The Archaeology of...Cave Bears

YouTube video by Lancashire Uni Research Centre for Archaeology

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

New episode!!! It’s The archaeology of… Cave Bears!!! With the fabulous Dr Jones (Jen. Who is a real archaeologist, unlike certain other Dr Jones we could mention) youtu.be/JiK8L_JRmh8

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S01 Ep05 The Archaeology of...Cave Bears

YouTube video by Lancashire Uni Research Centre for Archaeology

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

New episode out now: The Archaeology of… the earliest northerner! Can our regular viewers spot the Easter egg? ;) Watch the full episode here youtu.be/QMyTfygsRJw?... or listen wherever you get your podcasts

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It’s out! The Archaeology of… the earliest Northerner! Meet Dr Rick Peterson and the Ossick lass. youtu.be/QMyTfygsRJw?...

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S1 Ep4 The Archaeology of... the earliest northerner

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Our Rick Peterson’s research back in the news! What a teaser for our next Archaeology of… episode ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

youtube.com/watch?v=6ONR... brand new episode! Meet Dr Allison Stewart and The Archaeology of Dental Biographies! And brush your teeth. Probably ;)

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S1 Ep3 The Archaeology of...Dental Biographies AKA Teeth

YouTube video by Lancashire Uni Research Centre for Archaeology

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Our staff an students feature on #DiggingForBritain tonight BBC2 9pm! + iPlayer. Find out more about the work on our new podcast ‘The Archaeology of…’ available on YouTube, Spotify, etc! youtu.be/Y06aZRS_c58?...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s up! It’s out! Introducing 🥁🥁🥁The Archaeology Of… open.spotify.com/show/2fENuwX...

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The Archaeology of… Drugs

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Double episode drop tomorrow — and it ain’t just Anglo-Saxons (whoever they are). It’s also The Archaeology of… Drugs! youtube.com/@lancashirea...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Woo! Announcing our new podcast: ‘The Archaeology Of… ‘ where we deep dive people’s pet topics. Kicking off with a double episode drop next week: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and the Archaeology of Drugs. youtube.com/@unilancashi... or wherever you get your podcasts!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Ready for a career in ruins??? Come see us and hear about how we fit you for the future, from field work to forensics ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

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Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!

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Brenna Hassett @brennawalks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...

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Growing Up Human

This talk will look at the incredible evolutionary story of how humans came to spend quite so much of our time playing around.

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

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DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

It’s NSS day! And we are very pleased with our marks 🥰 1st for positivity, student voice, learning opportunities, assessment feedback, and academic support!!!! Our students are CLEARLY correct in their opinions of our courses ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Check out this thread by our own Dr. Jen Jones & collaborators who have been exploring cave bear diet, what it might tell us about the extinction of the species, & how we can use this knowledge to support threatened bear species today! See her article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New Insights into Serbian Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) Diet and Ecology Using Bone Collagen δ13C and δ15N Analysis in the Context of European Cave Bear Extinction

The extinction of the cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) and the factors leading to their demise have been widely discussed. Environmental change, dietary inflexibility, human predation, and resource comp...

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Archaeology: actually quite entertaining for the younger set ;)

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Excellent job to organisers Allie Stewart and Jen Jones on yesterday’s NWDTP funded Science & Sociology of Children and Childhood conference yesterday. Super well done to all the PhD students who presented!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Looking forward to seeing everyone for our special conference on the Science and sociology of childhood on Thursday!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

You poke your head up from a nice little test trench and find this… happy #FieldworkFriday from Lowther Castle! 🏺

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

On the 4th October we will be celebrating 20 years of Archaeology at our University! We'd love to see as many partner organisations, former students and collaborators there as possible there to celebrate with us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

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Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire

Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Bet you don’t think this is very useful right? A bone like this, it probably doesn't even preserve well. And what could we possibly use it for? Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little. Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts. 1/4

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Our Bone Bootcamp lab placement students are hosting a social media takeover! Today they have been learning about the Skull! Stay tuned for some of their content....

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

And bringing the #zooarchaeology to #archaeology is PhD student Sarah Ruth Hunt presenting thought-provoking work on ritual animal deposition in some very cool caves for the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference 🦭🦭🦭

Student standing in front of title slide reading ‘ritual deposition of animal remains in Neolithic cave burials: continuity or a new process

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ArchAnthLancashire @archanthlancashire.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Great #bioarchaeology / #archaeology presentation on her research into decapitation using 3d imaging from PhD student Amy Brookes-Cole at the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference

Student standing in auditorium in front of presentation showing map of cemetery

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