Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe
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Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe
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ANSOC is creating a new vision of the Bronze Age with animals as active participants in past social worlds
https://ansoc.net
Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin .. more

Joanna Bruck is an archaeologist and academic, who is a specialist on Bronze Age Britain and Ireland. Since 2020, she has been Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin. She was previously Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bristol between 2013 and 2020. .. more

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🔬📜 “The recording of ancient DNA of pathogens has completely changed our understanding of infectious disease in the past, and here we show that parchment can also preserve animal pathogen DNA."
- Louis L’Hôte, the study’s lead author and a PhD student at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
Scientists Extracted DNA From Medieval Parchment—and Found a Hidden Disease
The 3,500-year history of sheeppox was written into the books—quite literally.
gizmodo.com

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First time ever in Vienna, better get working on the lecture

"looking forward to welcoming Aidan O’Sullivan from University College Dublin for HEAS Keynote on Experimental Archaeology: Making, Understanding, Storytelling" 12 November 2026 at 15:30, Theatresaal at the Austrian Academy of Sciences"

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UCD School of Archaeology team, 2025/26!