💄 Last chance approaching to join our new MSc or Graduate Diploma in Mediterranean Archaeology at UCD in Dublin Ireland! 🌍 Learn with leading experts on the archaeology of the wider Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity. 🗣️ Language options are available but are not compulsory.

Great to have to opportunity to discuss our work on the Gomolava massacre and it's wider relevance on Archaeology with Flint Dibble today youtube.com/live/d-vshyn...

Mysterious Mass Grave in Serbia Solved with Archaeological Science

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Join our Taught Postgraduate webinar on Mon 13 Apr, 12pm IST. ✒️Learn about our range of on campus and online graduate programmes. ✒️Hear from staff and students. ✒️Find out about Archaeology careers. ✒️Ask questions to discover what it’s like to study at UCD. To register. www.ucd.ie/socscilaw/st...

'From the Cradle to the Grave: Homo naledi and Other Humans Before Humans' Dr Zachary Cofran, @vassar.bsky.social Vassar College @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social Seminar Series Date: Tuesday, 7 April, 4:00–5:00 PM Location: Ardmore Annex Seminar Room @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdsocscilaw.bsky.social

☠️ Exploring excarnation, fragmentation, bodily manipulation and a few other -ations in Bronze Age mortuary practices through the lens of societies of the Carpathian Basin, our new paper in JFA is just out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Encountering the Unburied Dead: Developments in Mortuary Practice in the Landscape of the Late Bronze Age Megaforts of the Carpathian Basin

The treatment of the dead body is a highly social phenomenon, rooted in cultural conventions. Choices in mortuary rites include inhumation, cremation, and excarnation, along with secondary manipula...

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Brendan and Samantha are looking forward to their talk this evening for the “Housing Ambition Project”! Thanks to all our colleagues in the Department of Architecture (University of Nairobi) for all their kind support during their trip!

Archaeologists accidentally found a skeleton in Germany with a silver amulet containing a fragile folded inscription. Using CT scans, they read text invoking Christ, showing Christianity reached that region earlier than thought — rewriting part of early Christian history

Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing a Silver Amulet. It Rewrote the History of Christianity.

Incredible discoveries keep happening in the most unlikely places.

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Gender roles in Neolithic Hungary may have been more flexible than researchers previously expected. 🏺🧪

Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary

A study of 125 skeletons from two Neolithic cemeteries in Hungary has revealed that men and women had clear gender roles — but sometimes those roles were fluid.

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When archaeologists found the bodies of 77 women and children in an Iron Age grave, they pinned it on a prehistoric plague outbreak. A new analysis reveals it was actually a mass execution. Most bizarre? @mireniraorb.bsky.social's look at their genes shows the victims weren't related. @science.org

Ancient mass grave in Serbia seen as a grisly show of power

Women and children were executed in an elaborate prehistoric ritual

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Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

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The Housing Ambition team thank Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, George Morara Orina and his team for warmly receiving Brendan O'Neill, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, and Samantha Martin, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy to discuss the richness of Kenya's archival history.

Our piece in The Conversation about the massacre and mass grave at Early Iron Age Gomolava, reflecting on aspects of its resonance today theconversation.com/a-2-850-year... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social

Archaeologists have to call out the destruction of cultural heritage wherever it’s done - e.g. 6th century Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan, Ukraine, Gaza (extensive destruction of museums, archaeological sites, libraries) or here, a UNESCO world heritage site in Tehran

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The Golestan Palace in Tehran, an 18th and 19th century World Heritage site and one of the oldest and most complete museum complexes in Iran, has been damaged by Israeli and US strikes. Noted for its mirror halls and tile decoration, it was the seat of the former Qajar dynasty Precision strikes?

Explore the cultures of the Mediterranean from prehistory to late Antiquity, from Greece to North Africa to Iberia with us on our new Graduate Diploma and MSc programmes at #ucdmediterraneanarchaeology in @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social and @ucdclassics.bsky.social at @ucddublin.bsky.social