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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hi all! 📣Call for papers🦴 Join @njasosayweall.bsky.social, Jo Brück @ansoc-erc.bsky.social, and I at TAG Exeter 2026 for our session "Fragmented Bodies, Enduring Relations: Complex Post-Mortem Processes Across Species in Prehistory"! Full abstract and more info at tag2026.square.site/sessions

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So honoured to have been asked to give a keynote on the archaeology of disability at this years Symposium for Young Archaeologists (SoYA) at Leiden University! ✨ A great conference showcasing amazing research on the archaeology of the margins, thank you so much for having me (and my Britney mic)! 🎤💀

Maria (a white, brown haired woman with glasses) stands on a stage behind a glass podium and is talking into a microphone.
Behind her, a large screen shows the title page of her Keynote.
Slide background: A white background with blurred pink and yellow blobs in the centre.
Title: Marginal Bodies? Deciphering and Co-Creating Disability Narratives in Archaeology
Speaker Details in bottom left corner: Maria Serrano Ruber, She/Her
PhD Candidate, University College Dublin
Conference and date in upper right corner: SoYA 10 April 2026

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Thank you @babao2025meeting.bsky.social for a great conference! Thoroughly enjoyed all the fascinating presentations, the great discussions, and the chance to present my poster on a few case studies from my PhD research 🦴✨

Maria stands next to her poster entitled Deciphering Disability Narratives in the 3rd to 4th Century Roman Irchester: Looking Past Mobility Impairments. The poster has a purple colour scheme and features two censored images of skeletal elements, and a drawn figure of a classical statue containing the thoracic skeleton of a young woman.

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!

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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/05/2025

Please share - Spark Space has gotten virtually no support in 2 weeks 🚨 This space serves 40+ students with internet, electricity, & shelter. It’s $17/day to sponsor one student. Can you sponsor 1 student today?💡 66/400. chuffed.org/project/spar...

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Q for the hivemind: what's the best place to find archaeological reconstruction illustrations? Struggling to find any online repositories I'm specifically looking for examples of inclusive/intersectional depictions of Roman society (especially Roman Britain) would love any leads! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

🏺Exciting conference next month in Dublin for environmental archaeologists!

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In honor of #InternationalWomensDay, our #ImageOfTheMonth is a marble relief commemorating two female gladiators —Amazon and Achillia. Found in Halicarnassus, this relief was acquired through donation by the British Museum (1847,0424.19) in 1846, but prior provenience is murky.

Marble relief commemorating either the release from service or the discharge after a draw of two female gladiators, Amazon and Achillia. They are armed, and advancing to attack, with swords and shields. The figure on the right is missing the head. They stand on a platform, and below on each side is the head of a spectator. Inscribed above and on the platform. They are shown with the same equipment as male gladiators, but without helmets.

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Marc Martucci Morris @marchaeologist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Environmental archaeologist? Work in Ireland or with Irish material? Exploring questions of sustainability, past, present and future? Calling papers for this year’s Environmental Archaeologists in Ireland Conference in Dublin on 10th May! Submission link: tinyurl.com/eai2025 Submit by 10/2/2025.

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Eleanor Swallow @eswallow.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy New Year! Calling all animal-interested-prehistorians! Join the grad students of @ansoc-erc.bsky.social Nóra, Ollie, Gywain, @alexsiekmann.bsky.social, and I for our session #111 at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social. Submit by 08/02/25 🐑🐎🐷🐮🫎

A call for papers poster for session #111 at the European Association of Archaeologists conference 2025. Titled "Let's address the other-than-human animal in the room: moving forward with multispecies archaeologies of prehistory".

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Really loved this lecture by @jldraycott.bsky.social last week on assistive technology in antiquity, and it's now available online! Check it out for a fascinating discussion on how and why prosthetics were used in the past 🏺🦿👨‍🦽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fXo...

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Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome - Jane Draycott

YouTube video by York Ideas

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Sam Tipper @sntipper.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Started up a bioarch starter pack 🤩 Let me know if you want to be added or have suggestions 😊 #archaeology #bioarchaeology go.bsky.app/N5yfURb

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

More of the amazing work presented today!

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Had a lovely day at the UCD Archaeology PhD Research day today! A great chance for all of us to talk through some thoughts from our work so far, and an excuse to show off my romano-british bestie (the hand turkeys on the chalkboard were paid actors)

Maria stands off the the side of a pull down screen. The screen shows a slide from her presentation, showing a cartoon woman with a walking stick, an image from a greek vase, and two images of medicinal plants. Maria is standing in front of a chalkboard (which sits behind the pull-down screen) on which two hand turkeys have been drawn.

a close-up of the cartoon woman with a cane from the previous image. A speech bubble to her right reads "salve!" - or hello in Latin.

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María Serrano @mserranor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

What's up bluesky! I think it's about time for an introduction: I'm María, a PhD student in bioarchaeology 🦴🔍 studying the lived experiences and perceptions of disability in Roman Britain 🧑‍🦽🏺 Stick around to witness my descent into writing madness !

Maria and Jill standing by a plastic hanging skeleton, and behind a sign advertising an osteology drop-in session at Chester House Estate's Roman Fest event.

Maria giving a presentation titled Deciphering Disability Narratives in Roman Britain at UCD.

Maria standing in front of a digital poster titled "Detecting Disability: An Interdisciplinary Osteoarchaeological Pilot Study Applying the Index of Care to a Romano-British Population". She is wearing a lanyard that denotes she is at the EAA conference. Behind the screen and her is a marble relief depicting what look like humans and horses

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