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jenniferbones.bsky.social
Archaeological Scientist. Interested in isotopes, zooarchaeology, dietary reconstruction, animal management, palaeoenvironments, faunal palaeoecology. Senior Lecturer Uclan Arch & Anth. Big fan of dogs, walking, wildlife and d&d.
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We are planning an exhibition on Ancient DNA at The Crick! If you are an artist and are interested in being involved please consider applying to lend us a hand. www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Last week we took our students on a field trip to Sussex, and we stayed at the Field Studies Council hostel at Flatford Mill which was absolutely stunning. Anyone recognise the famous painting inspired by this view? Some wonderful wildlife there too- I got aggressively barked at by a Muntjac.

Congratulations to our very own Phoebe Liu @phoebe-liu.bsky.social, Lenny Salvagno, and Umberto Albarella @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social who have just published a new paper on spavin in cattle! You can read it here for free until the 1st of April - authors.elsevier.com/a/1kau3_glky...

I'm absolutely delighted to be hosting Mónica for her Marie Skłodowska-Curie here at @uclan.ac.uk @archanthunilanc.bsky.social. This is an incredibly well deserved achievement, and I look forward to working together on the #NEANDERSCAPES project!

Very proud to share, especially on #WomenInScienceDay, that I have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoc grant! 🎉 #MSCA I will be joining @jenniferbones.bsky.social at @uclan.ac.uk in a few months to develop the #NEANSCAPES project. Excited for this new chapter! 😍

We've made the move from twitter to BlueSky! Follow us for updates on our activities, interesting #zooarchaeology related things, and pictures of items from our collection. We're starting off with this rather nice comparison of a domestic dog and a wolf.

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I really need the Microsoft stream AI generated auto captions to know that I am talking about Filters in excel, not Philtres... I'm taking this as a direct act of hostility towards the Yorkshire accent.

I've been searching through old fieldwork photos from my Epipalaeolithic excavations in Jordan for a class, and found this brilliant image from a visit to the Monastery in Petra. I was so pleased that the view signposted. I'd have probably missed it otherwise...

Please welcome the International Council for Archaeozoology(ICAZ) Archaeomalacology Working Group to Bluesky @archaeomalacology.bsky.social - for all things molluscs in archaeology 🏺

Every two years I teach a session on domestication, and we talk about the environmental context behind the origins of agriculture in the near east. I always think of a friend of mine from university that thought that the Younger Dryas was a person and it makes me chuckle.

Final call !! Apply for this funded PhD at University College London @UCLarchaeology.bsky.social on Establishing limits of Neanderthal presence in Britain. Deadline 20th Jan 5pm Uk time www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/est...

Radiocarbon dates from Spain put anatomically modern humans in southernmost Europe 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, diminishing the case for late survival of Neanderthals in the region (2019) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Greetings! We are the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic community of the European Association of Archaeologists. Follow us here, on Instagram: www.instagram.com/eaapam/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/PaMCommunity/ and our EAA websites and wordpress: eaapalaeomesocommunity.wordpress.com/author/eaapa...

Abbey house museum has a fond place in my heart from memorable family visits as a child to school visits. It would be a real shame for the museum to close and for others to miss out on the opportunity to visit.

The tally is counted, I've managed to read 29 novels this year, 10 more than 2024's count. My favourite from this year was 'The list of suspicious Things' by Jennie Godfrey, it gave me nostalgia for growing up in Yorkshire and was funny, moving, as well thought provoking.

Excellent thread about the Bronze Age site indicating the massacre and butchery of people. Interestingly close to Gough's cave which is the site of Upper Palaeolithic Cannibalism. Maybe it's a Somerset thing? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The university laptop has finally been updated to windows 11. It's currently giving windows vista vibes...

It's all fun and games in the Zooarchaeology lab until someone gets hurt... My new lab assistant seems to have angered the reference collection. #zooarchaeology #elfontheshelf #labwork

My new lab assistant has been helping me to set up for Thursday's Zooarchaeology class on Bird bones. As you can see from his lab coat and gloves he takes Elf and Safety very seriously...

We had an intense day of lab work on Friday! I was instructing our MSci student on bone collagen extraction to undertake dietary analysis of Roman dogs.

For #FossilFriday if you’ve got a post or news about #Palaeolithic #zooarchaeology or #Pleistocene 🦴 you can now use 🦣 to post to the #IceAge list by @toriherridge.bsky.social. Here’s some 🦣🦴 with cut marks and human modifications. from my work at La Cotte de St Brelade: shorturl.at/UwMKO

I'm leaving my job as Group Communications Manager in commercial archaeology, and will be seeking new challenges from December! I am an archaeology and history Press, Outreach and Communications person with a Ph.D. and a monograph. I write, edit, present, and create content, including podcasts 📽🎙📚

🚨New paper! Towards a deeper integration of #ZooMS & #Zooarchaeology at #Palaeolithic sites 🦴. We discuss optimising study designs, sample recording, lab protocols and data analyses. Great work with Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot & Frido Welker. tinyurl.com/mr3dx4cu. 🧪🏺

I made some instructional videos on environmental archaeology during my descent into madness during lockdown. Thanks for reminding me about this one @lenamstrid.bsky.social 🐟🐠🦈 For a more serious consideration of fish bones in archaeology check out this link: www.shd-archzoo.co.uk/fishresource....

ooh, i was just thinking about this 🧪 meme! here's my contribution for zooarchaeology papers 🏺🦴

Based on fitbit stats a two hour teaching session increases my step count by about 1,500-2,000 steps (the upper end appears to correlate with my favourite topics of interest!).

Just started a new pack for #isotope bioarchaeologists, ecologists and so on.😀🧪 Let me know if you would like to be in/out! Hope it can help.🙌 go.bsky.app/FpHPMC6