Looking for recommendations of non-walking activities in the Lake District? A sprained ankle turns out to be a few broken bones in my foot, but the holiday was already booked - I would have been running at the Lakes 5 days orienteering - but not very mobile in the boot.

New paper (I had a very minor role) with lovely folks interested in complex past social systems. Focusing on the Carpathian basin, the article argues that while social groups change with environmental variations, they do so in unpredictable and unique ways. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Adaptive connectivity networks across climatic and ecological regimes from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages in the Carpathian Basin

Investigating long-term archaeological land-use patterns is crucial for understanding how past populations adjusted settlement strategies, resource ex…

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Last official day at Kings Manor. Lots of exciting things about the move, but today is is about what a place this is to have worked! 12 years in my sanctuary of an office.

Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...

Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) in Exeter | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...

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real question can someone explain to me in lay person terms why university finances work the way they do? You spend the first 9 months secretly bringing your own biscuits to meetings and the last 3 months over ordering the expensive pastries to spend the cash before the end of July.

Really delighted to be speaking to the Royal Archaeological Institute in York next April, giving the Talbot Green lecture. Will be attempting to blend a "prehistoric" cheese making demonstration with talking about how Neolithic diets trouble our assumptions about human history as progress. Join us!

Royal Archaeological Institute@royalarchinst.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For the first time, we are planning a lecture outside London - the Talbot Green lecture will take place in York in April 2027. For more details about this and all of the other lectures, please check out our Events Page: www.royalarchinst.org/events

Definitely pre-ordering this! Cannot wait to read.

Kenny Brophy@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My #UrbanPrehistory book, The Archaeology of Prehistory in the Contemporary World: Deep Time in Global Urban Spaces, is now available for pre-order in the UK, and I expect it to come out towards the end of 2026. I'm currently working on the proofs. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/archaeolo...

If you are in Berlin and what to find out about our AHRC-DFG project ReNEW, rethinking Neolithic ontologies of Waste, please come along to this talk on 28th May: www.fu-berlin.de/sites/dhc/pr... Part of the Forschung im Dialog series with the Freie Universitat Berlin

Now Bluesky seems to have returned to normal here is our special issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue with World Archaeology. Lots of really interesting perspectives on how to understand death mediated and found in domestic spaces. Thanks to everyone involved!

Penny Bickle@pennybickle.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Turns out special issues are like buses! Today marks publication day for our World Archaeology issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue. It has 11 great papers from Europe, the Americas and northern Africa. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/5...

Turns out special issues are like buses! Today marks publication day for our World Archaeology issue on Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue. It has 11 great papers from Europe, the Americas and northern Africa. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwar20/5...

World Archaeology

Domestic and Funerary Archaeologies in Dialogue. Volume 56, Issue 5 of World Archaeology

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A great summary thread on our recent special issue in CAJ on “Kinship Trouble”

Sabina Cveček@sabinacvecek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌸 Kinship Trouble isn’t a crisis—it’s an opportunity: to rethink kinship through collaborative and interdisciplinary research across archaeology, ancient DNA, and socio-cultural anthropology. With @pennybickle.bsky.social & Maanasa Raghavan @genscapelab.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very happy to see this special issue published! It was lovely working with @genshinimpact-en.bsky.social, @pennybickle.bsky.social on this! 👇

Jennifer Raff@jenniferraff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Our paper is part of a special issue of Cambridge Archaeology Journal, "Kinship Trouble", organized by @pennybickle.bsky.social, @genscapelab.bsky.social (Maanasa Raghavan), and @sabinacvecek.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is such a lovely thread of posts about Cate and Carly's paper - if you are interested in archaeologies of kinship, that so often are informed by the context in which the dead have been mourned, this is one for you!

Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

1/ Good morning, Europe! Now that you're awake, I'll make a little thread about what we are doing in this paper! This is part of a special issue on kinship in archaeology ed by @pennyend.bsky.social, Sabina Cvecek and Manaasa Raghavan. All the articles and the three commentaries are very worthwhile

The statement appealing for greater democracy in the EAA has now been made public. You can find it here:  drive.google.com/file/d/1ehzn...   We are still collecting signatures here: ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/xZZjy6le

The special issue this is based on is now published - all papers are open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Penny Bickle@pennybickle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To celebrate our upcoming issue on "Kinship Trouble" in the Cambridge Archaeological journal, we're hosting a virtual launch on publication day; 14th April, 4pm-6pm UK time. The event is co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and AGE. To join, register here: therai.org.uk/events/cambr...

Hot off the press!! New open access special edition of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on "Kinship Trouble". www.cambridge.org/core/journal... All papers are open access, and the papers, I think, really capture this dynamic moment in studies of past kinship.

Job news!! We're looking for an archaeological chemist to join us on the ReNEW project: on waste management during the transition to the Neolithic. This role will be to carry out organic residue analysis. The PDRA position is for 2 years: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post... Please share!

Particularly enjoyed this "journey through a cow" on my walk to work this morning: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Very meditative and illuminating, and I'm glad to get some time to seriously think about Neolithic dung during our ReNew project!

Illuminated - Journey through a cow - BBC Sounds

Join a farmer, a cheesemaker, a philosopher and a scientist on a guided tour through a cow

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🌟Kinship Trouble: Virtual Launch🌟 Join us on Tuesday, 14 April at 5pm CET/4pm BST/11am ET. Register below. We will present our special issue in Cambridge Archaeological Journal, co-edited w @pennybickle.bsky.social & @genscapelab.bsky.social #archaeology #anthropology therai.org.uk/events/cambr...

Reminder that the launch for the upcoming special issue on Kinship trouble in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal will be held next Tuesday (see post below for link to sign up). The issue itself will be published open access itself on the 14th before we launch. Hope you can come and join us!

Penny Bickle@pennybickle.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To celebrate our upcoming issue on "Kinship Trouble" in the Cambridge Archaeological journal, we're hosting a virtual launch on publication day; 14th April, 4pm-6pm UK time. The event is co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and AGE. To join, register here: therai.org.uk/events/cambr...

1/6 Just out in @Nature ! 🌽 The history of farming in the southern Andes. In a collaboration between archaeologists, geneticists and Huarpe Indigenous communities, we investigate its origins and consequences in the Uspallata Valley. Read: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - Nature

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

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To celebrate our upcoming issue on "Kinship Trouble" in the Cambridge Archaeological journal, we're hosting a virtual launch on publication day; 14th April, 4pm-6pm UK time. The event is co-hosted by the Royal Anthropological Institute and AGE. To join, register here: therai.org.uk/events/cambr...

Kinship Trouble: Cambridge Archaeological Journal Special Issue Launch - Royal Anthropological Institute

This virtual launch is co-organized with the Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE) Network of the European Association of Archaeologists. Tuesday 14 April 2026, 4-6pm (BST) To join on Zoom, please re...

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New Open Access Paper! We present the site of Al Uyaynah, Pre-Pottery Neolithic in Saudi Arabia, excavated by my former PhD student Dr. Khalid Alasmari. New set of C14 dates, thanks to @isotopesuk.bsky.social funding onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

New Results From the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic Site of Al Uyaynah, Tabuk, in Northwestern Saudi Arabia

Al Uyaynah is a low sandstone mound on an alluvial plain, long known for its extensive surface remains of stone-built circular and rectangular structures. Following test excavations in 2012, more det...

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Given the choice, my border terrier, Hutton, would also happily get 83% of his calories from blueberries!

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Voyageurs Wolf Project of Northern Minnesota tags & documents grey wolf ecology & behavior: www.voyageurswolfproject.org The video you see here is confirmatory proof: Wolves. Love. Blueberries. As much as 83% of a wolf's calories in summer months comes from eating berries.

New paper! Led by Łukasz Kowalski, on drinking milk in the Funnel Beaker Culture, arguing for the complex interplay between gender, burial rites, and potentially ritual drinking of dairy products. Open Access in Praehistorische Zeitschrift www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

A first toast in Kuyavia: New evidence for drinking rituals in Neolithic Europe from Sławęcinek, Poland

Excavations at Sławęcinek in central Poland, have yielded evidence for the Neolithic Funnel Beaker Culture, concurrent with a sweeping set of changes that occurred across much of Europe in the mid-fou...

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Always lovely to make a trip to Cambridge to chat to the great staff and students. This time speaking to the BioAnth crew :-)

Thomas Van Parys@tomvp.bsky.social · 6mo ago

11-02-2026: Very interesting talk from @pennybickle.bsky.social about LBK burial practices in Neolithic Central Europe. Especially interested by the development of ‘bounded’ cemeteries from settlement burials, and the variation between them! #BioAnthSeminar #Archaeology #Neolithic #Bioarchaeology

We are looking for a research project manager for the upcoming FORAGER ERC Synergy Project. Based at the University of York, this is an exciting opportunity to work in a team of 37 researchers from the UK, the US, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia and Japan. Join us! jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Currently advertising: PhD project on Neolithic waste, based with Henny Piezonka. Project focuses on spatial analysis and the Neolithic. Deadline is 9th Feb. A chance to work with a cool range of sites from Serbia to Poland and you get to live in Berlin, so what's not to like! Link in next post.

Evidence for contact between LBK and hunter-gatherers, it grows at every turn, but we are no closer to really understanding the range and scope of relationships. The site of Eilsleben gives us more evidence of just how close interaction could have been. Plus that deer antler mask 🤩

Antiquity Journal@antiquity.ac.uk · 7mo ago

Archaeologists have uncovered one of the first instances of interaction between #Neolithic farmers and #Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in central Europe, indicating a level of technology transfer not observed before. 🏺A communicative #AntiquityThread 1/10 🧵

Wonderful study on a cow called Veronica and her use of tools! The video abstract is a treat, as is this thread. Definitely using in future lectures to talk about how we approach animal sociality and mutuality of being in the past. We all know how good it is to scratch that itch!!

Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró)@biotay.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social