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Graeme Warren

@graemewarren.bsky.social
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hunter-gatherer archaeology at UCD Archaeology; Book *Hunter-Gatherer Ireland* (Winner EAA Book Prize 2024); President *International Society for Hunter-Gatherer Research*; grows/eats chillies; mountain/ultra runner

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Jen Harland @jenharland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The ICAZ fish remains working group meeting is just wrapping up in Nice, France today. I've presented new results from our little excavation on Oronsay last summer, talking about Mesolithic fishing practices. Great conference!
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A fine afternoon of sorting samples from Ferriters Cove. Much excitement at an otolith - how Mesolithic is that!
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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🚨 Our new lab paper, led by @amandinevisine.bsky.social, examines exploration, group composition, and play activities among BaYaka children and teens living in a village context! Amandine is currently on fieldwork following up on this for her PhD 🎯 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Congolese BaYaka children's learning and exploring in a village context
Childhood is a key period for acquiring and transmitting cultural knowledge and skill. Hunter-gatherer children, such as the Congolese BaYaka, learn a…
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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A great couple of days at SOAS with the Prehistoric Policies dream team, and linking up with @boothicus.bsky.social and CAMHRA. Lots of interviews, archive work, writing and public events now planned. Final 12 months of this @britishacademy.bsky.social project let's goooood!
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just leaving London after an excellent two day workshop with @alicerudge.bsky.social @drclairenolan.bsky.social and @archsoundscapes.bsky.social for our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded *Prehistoric Policies* project. Our first full in person meeting - so much better than virtual.
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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
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How can archaeology play a part in our natural environment?🌳 In next week's talk, Nick will explain how the past can power a wilder future: from ancient environments that guide today’s habitats, to wildlife at historic sites & stories that inspire new ways to care for our world
Poster titled "Archaeology and Nature Recovery" advertising a talk by Nick Overton, showing two workers in orange high-visibility jackets restoring peatland on moorland beside a small pool under a cloudy sky.
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To have chillis still ripening in late Sept in Ireland is a bonus. (And a marker of climate change...)
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dublin Mountains Festival event - October 8th: Join @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social and NPWS staff for a tour of the excellent prehistoric landscape at Piperstown in the Dublin Mountains. Places limited and booking essential. www.eventbrite.ie/e/dublin-mou...
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Dublin Mountains Festival: Discover the Archaeology of Piperstown Hill
A complimentary bus will bring participants to explore the archaeological features of the site, and to discuss the impact of recent fires.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ancient and beautiful amber pendants worn by hunter-gatherers during the Danish Mesolithic some 10,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows three glossy, bright orange, drop-shaped pieces of amber arranged in a row against a dark background in a museum display case. Each piece of amber is decorated with finely incised patterns. The smalleest piece on the left is decorated with a comb motif- three horizontal lines with short vertical lines on top. The largest piece in the middle has a patchwork of alternating incised rectangles, and the piece on the right has four evenly spaced  horizontal rows a Ross the surface made up of drilled pits. Each piece of amber has a hole at the top suggesting it was attached to a cord to be worn as jewellery or suspended.

Amber has many properties which may have been associated with 'magic'. For example, when rubbed against fur, amber produces static electricity which can give off sparks in the dark, make hair stand on end, and attract small things towards it.

These pieces are part of the collections of the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. They are currently on loan at the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle, Germany for the ‘Shamaness’ temporary exhibition.
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 24/09/2026
Join us at the RIA on 30 Sept for the opening event of Discourse Series 2026/27. This Discourse will explore diversity across research, including disciplinary diversity and issues relating to equality, diversity, and inclusion. Places are limited. Register now: www.eventbrite.ie/e/discourse-...
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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh hey I have a new paper out with my amazing co-authors 😃
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Radical Anthropology @radicalanthro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' has landed! Chris proudly shows off the first copy he got his hands on. #humanorigins #thehumanrevolution #anthropology
An elderly anthropology professor shows off the very first copy of his book 'The Revolutionary Origins of Language' coauthored with Jerome Lewis
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Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
CFP: Towards a Posthumanistic Mountain Humanities, Online Workshop 11 December 2026. shorturl.at/wnsS8 #Mountains #EnvHist #EnvHums #HistGeog #IndigenousKnowledge #AnimalHist #NewAnimism #NewMaterialism #AssemblageTheory #Posthumanism
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sharing this, please circulate and join us if you can! @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @staclassics.bsky.social @profpitches.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This worked out very well! Quite 🌶 but full of sour and smoky flavours.
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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Grants to Assist Archaeologists Gain Commercial Diving Qualifications For information on eligibility visit archaeology.ie Closing Date: 5.00 p.m. Friday 30 October 2026 Copyright and Photo Credit ©Photographic Archive, NMS #uchireland #underwaterarchaeology #ProtectOurPast #ClimateActionIRL
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Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#SpéirGorm I’ve just become a member of @talamhbeo.bsky.social, which advocates for agroecology and food sovereignty both in Ireland and beyond. Please consider joining to support climate action, food security and rural regeneration: talamhbeo.ie
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Farmers & citizens fighting for Food, Fuel & Fibre Sovereignty. We want to create a better food system in Ireland, where all people have access to healthy, nutritious and affordable local food.
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princetonanthro.bsky.social @princetonanthro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Professor @anthrofuentes.bsky.social joins @wired.com to look at the AI slop that is taking over the internet. bit.ly/4hvqBCZ
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Anthropologist Fact Checks Stone Age Slop
AI slop is littering your feed and spreading misinformation, so WIRED’s here to set the record straight. Join Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes as we fact check the internet, anthropology edition. WIRED recommends: https://youtu.be/iHn63hPS9sw #StoneAge #IceAge #Evolution Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 Listen to the Uncanny Valley podcast ►► https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uncanny-valley-wired/id266391367 Want more WIRED? Get the magazine ►► https://subscribe.wired.com/subscribe/splits/wired/WIR_YouTube?source=EDT_WIR_YouTube_0_Video_Description_ZZ Follow WIRED: Instagram ►►https://instagram.com/wired Twitter ►►http://www.twitter.com/wired Facebook ►►https://www.facebook.com/wired Tik Tok ►►https://www.tiktok.com/@wired Get more incredible stories on science and tech with our daily newsletter: https://wrd.cm/DailyYT ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovation, and culture.
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@jaredbeasley.bsky.social Very much looking forward to reading this!
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Hunter-Gatherer Lab volunteers processing samples from Ferriters Cove with @martinmoucheron.bsky.social and Deborah Nagle @naikaiouk.bsky.social. Shells crab claws. Layers of pure carbonised hazelnut... Nice!
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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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Karsten Wentink @karstenwentink.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thursday I'll give my first "official" presentation on the colourful, newly excavated, Mesolithic grave we have been working on (from the Netherlands). If you're in the neighbourhood of the RCE, you can still sign up: www.cultureelerfgoed.nl/actueel/agen...
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Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation @a-rfa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We‘re excited to be co-organising this session with @lornarichardson.bsky.social. What does an antifascist archaeology look like under increasing consolidation of state power by the far-right? How might we avoid such a future? We hope to see you there!
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Holly Dunsworth @dunsworth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Penultimate post! Harari argues against biological patriarchy, but no one seems to notice AND he cites nothing and no one, So someone's gotta say it: Only a man could float a reference-free argument against biological patriarchy in a science book. ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/09/sapi...
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Sapiens, Ch. 8: "unfounded myths rather than biological facts" about race, sexuality, sex, and gender
This is my penultimate post about the book   Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind .  For some reason, the previous post felt like rock bot...
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 10/09/2026
The Charlemont grant scheme for early career researchers wishing to travel to carry out primary research in any subject is now open and accepting applications. This year up to €3,000 is available and applications will be accepted until 27 October: www.ria.ie/grants/charl...
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
His introduction to the show doesn't mince words...
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 09/09/2026
(1/4) With the Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band Land of Hope and Dreams American Tour’s Philadelphia finale filmed in its entirety, and planned for release in three additional in-sequence segments through the end of the year...
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jaredbeasley.bsky.social @jaredbeasley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MEG ECKERT, school teacher and ultrarunner, sets new Women's World Record for six days. Her 636 miles beats her own WR by 33 miles and bests the American Men's record, held by Joe Fijis, by 30 miles. PC: Arcadia De Miguel Sanz
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are two important claims here - that a 'land bridge' existed between Wales and Ireland during the Late Upper Palaeolithic, and that cave art of the period has been identified. Both are plausible but a press article like this doesn't make it certain, however confident the statements! 🧵
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bhí ár gcuid imscrúduithe seandálaíochta ag Cuan an Chaoil le feiceáil ar TG4 Nuacht an tseachtain seo. Tosaíonn an tuairisc nuachta ag `6 nóiméad, 18 soicind: www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se... Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil: 🐻‍❄️ www.ucd.ie/.../kerrycow... 🐗 www.prehistoricsociety.org/publications...
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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
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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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/08/2026
‘Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China, the Gulf of Aden and Ethiopia. But Scandinavia and the Baltic have remained stubbornly invisible.’ Michael Kulikowski on Roman Scandinavia: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Michael Kulikowski · Polar Bears in Rome: Roman Scandinavia
Over the past two generations, the boundaries of the classical world have been stretched to the steppe frontier of China...
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Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New podcast! Ionas Sklavounos and Marilena Mela from Boulouki talk about working with traditional building techniques in the mountain communities of Greece. @staclassics.bsky.social @futuremountain.bsky.social @britschoolathens.bsky.social mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2026/08/29/b...
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Boulouki
Ionas Sklavounos and Marilena Mela talk about the work of Boulouki preserving traditional building techniques.
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New combination...
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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is... um.... unusual...
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 29/08/2026
Video of my talk at @einsteinforum.bsky.social from a few months ago.
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
CfP for our TAG Exeter session 'After the Election: Archaeology & Cultural Heritage in a Post-Reform UK'. Imagine it's 2029, Reform wins a landslide election victory, the Department for British Culture has oversight of all cultural output. What next for archaeology, museums & cultural heritage?
Screenshot of the call for papers for the session for Exeter TAG, which says:
This session imagines the archaeological and heritage implications of a Reform UK government following its victory at the 2029 general election. The newly created ‘Department for British Culture’ oversees urgent revisions to Britain’s heritage and cultural sectors, operating under a mandate to suppress ‘woke’ approaches to the past. Institutional overhauls are in progress at museums and archives, at National Trust properties, in media, and publishing, and the DfBC are revising how the past is taught in schools as part of the new ‘National Curriculum Reformed’. Government policies call for the withdrawal of funding from museums and heritage sites that address difficult histories, particularly those related to colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, and migration. New national guidance has been issued that prioritises narratives of ‘traditional’ British culture, economic and wartime achievement, and Christian heritage.

This session seeks reflections on this imagined future, focused on its implications for the present:
Is this prediction accurate? To what extent? How can we better understand the structures and dynamics that shape the far-right framing and usage of the past? In what locales, and through what narratives, is the past mobilised towards far-right political goals? What about in 2029?
Can archaeologists contribute to avoiding a future such as this? Where are we going wrong? How might we prepare? What does activist-archaeologist resistance to far-right state power look like?
What are the political responsibilities of those who work with the past? How can we attempt to prevent political harms and marginalisation through our work? Conversely, should archaeology remain politically neutral?
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jaredbeasley.bsky.social @jaredbeasley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PHIL GORE update. He has now been running 4.167 miles every hour, on the hour, for 132 hours. That's 550 miles. He's still going. The format, the Backyard Ultra, was created by none other than Lazarus Lake.
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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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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I sometimes laugh with the bitter irony of the far right claim the university sector is filled with left wing ideologies when you see letters like this to the paper of record. Begrudging a messily €4m to assist students from Gaza.
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Tobias Richter @toricht.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
There's still time left to apply for one of two PhD fellowships our new project on Social Networks Before Agriculture! #PhD #archaeology #geology #anthropology #Copenhagen bsky.app/profile/tori...
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National Monuments Service @nationalmons.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Welcome to the National Monuments Service Underwater Wednesdays, which will highlight this through posts, images and videos over the coming months. Also see our brand-new website: www.uchireland.ie #UnderwaterWednesdays #UnderwaterArchaeology #ClimateActionIRL #HeritageIreland2030
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Academic/ researcher friends- please sign and share. 👇 It's in response to the earlier, pro-Cofnas, letter. #Archaeology 🏺 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
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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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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Ferriter's Cove 26: More large rhyolite flakes and core fragments, all with lots of charcoal at the base of a very bioturbated occupation soil
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