Project Activity

Conference & Seminar Presentations

European Association of Archaeologists conference 2024 (Rome)

Several members of the team will present papers at this event and they are:

  • Prof Joanna Brück: ‘The Social Worlds of Bronze Age Animals
  • Dr Katherine Kanne: ‘Methods In Practice: Integrative Approaches for New Interpretations of Animals and Society in Bronze Age Europe
  • Dr Floor Huisman: ‘Animal Architectures – Human-Animal Interaction in the Bronze Age of Northwestern Europe
  • Nóra Nic Aoidh: ‘Mineral Menageries: Interspecies Relationships in Bronze Age Animal Iconography
  • Eleanor Swallow: ‘Nonhuman Animal Deposition Practices In Bronze Age Europe: A Posthuman Reanalysis

Society for American Archaeology conference 2024 (New Orleans)

SAA 2024 Annual Meeting Web Graphics
  • Nóra Nic Aoidh: ‘Interspecies Relationships in Nordic Bronze Age Iconography

European Association of Archaeologists conference 2023 (Belfast)

Several members of the team presented papers at this event and they were:

  • Prof Joanna Brück: ‘A Twist In The Tail: Cattle Hair And Other Twisted, Woven And Braided Organics From British Early Bronze Age Burials
  • Dr Katherine Kanne: ‘The Conceits Of Domestication: Violence, Killing, And The Underpinnings Of Human-Animal Communication
  • Dr Floor Huisman: ‘Wild Wetlands and Domestic Drylands: A Method Of Integrating Wet And Dryland Datasets Associated With The East Anglia Fens, UK
  • Nóra Nic Aoidh: ‘Examining Interspecies Relationships And Nordic Bronze Age Cosmologies Through Art

Bronze Age Forum 2023 (Leicester, UK)

  • Prof Joanna Brück, Dr Floor Huisman, Dr Kate Kanne, Nóra Nic Aoidh and Eleanor Swallow: ‘The Social World of Bronze Age Animals

Individual Papers

  • Prof Joanna Bruck: ‘The social worlds of Bronze Age animals‘, University of Copenhagen, 30/10/24
  • Dr Floor Huisman: ‘Routes and Routines: animal architecture and human-animal interactions in West Africa’, University College Dublin, 10/10/24
  • Dr Kate Kanne: ‘Becoming Equestrian: emergent terrains of the European Bronze Age‘, University College Dublin, 26/10/23
  • Dr Kate Kanne: ‘Becoming Equestrian in the Bronze Age‘, University of Vienna, 14/11/23
  • Nóra Nic Aoidh, ‘Animal Iconography in the European Bronze Age‘, UCD School of Archaeology PhD Research Day, 5/12/23
  • Eleanor Swallow, ‘Thinking About Animals in The Bronze Age (or not?)‘, UCD School of Archaeology PhD Research Day, 5/12/23
  • Dr Floor Huisman and Kate Kanne: ‘Methods in practice: update on ANSOC research’, UCD School of Archaeology Postdoc Research Day, 6/12/23

Other Outputs

  • Dr Kate Kanne: ‘Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests‘, Scientific American, 3/3/23
  • Dr Floor Huisman: ‘Research Postcard‘ for International Women’s Day 2023, 8/3/23

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