Archaeology news
Current news
Monday 20 May 2013
The department collaborates with stonemasons at York Minster in a major restoration project on the building’s east front
Thursday 2 May 2013
York's BioArCh students and staff lead the way at UKAS2013.
Wednesday 17 April 2013
Hunter-gatherers living in glacial conditions produced pots for cooking fish, according to Nature study.
Tuesday 16 April 2013
Students at the University of York are organising the 1st Annual Student Archaeology Conference.
Thursday 11 April 2013
Community publication of the results of excavations at the University's Heslington East campus expansion.
Sunday 17 March 2013
Students and staff feature on monthly BBC Radio York broadcast
Sunday 17 March 2013
Various department members to speak at Danish conference
Monday 11 March 2013
A new Channel 4 programme highlights the research of the department's Lisa-Marie Shillito and Oliver Craig.
Monday 11 March 2013
The department's research fellow presents Ancient Egypt: Life & Death In The Valley Of The Kings
Monday 25 February 2013
Archaeology undergraduates publish another issue of The Post Hole.
Sunday 3 February 2013
An international team of researchers has shown that old wives' tales that snails can tell us about the weather should not be dismissed too hastily.
Saturday 19 January 2013
The 2013 National Student Survey runs from 21 January until 30 April 2013. Please take the time to complete it at www.thestudentsurvey.com
Sunday 13 January 2013
The material remains of the First World War on the British Home Front will be investigated by researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of York, thanks to £39,500 funding from English Heritage.
Sunday 13 January 2013
Undergraduates at the University of York have released another issue of The Post Hole.
Friday 14 December 2012
...the revelation that Neanderthals selectively picked and ate medicinal plants
Wednesday 5 December 2012
ADS has been awarded the Digital Preservation Coalition's (DCP) most prestigious prize – the Decennial Prize - to mark the 10th anniversary of the DPC.
Tuesday 4 December 2012
Undergraduates, postgraduates and anyone else with an interest in archaeology are encouraged to publish with The Post Hole
Friday 23 November 2012
Trust rather than lust is at the heart of the attention to detail and finely made form of handaxes from around 1.7 million years ago, according to Penny Spikins.
Thursday 22 November 2012
York undergrad wins competition via her class blog
Tuesday 13 November 2012
Deadline for applications for a fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award is fast approaching: 23rd November 2012.
Saturday 3 November 2012
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory, 16-18 November 2012
Monday 22 October 2012
Deadline for applications for a fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award is fast approaching: 23rd November 2012.
Friday 19 October 2012
A new website for the undergraduate-run journal The Post Hole goes live
Friday 19 October 2012
Tania Dickinson and colleagues awarded grant to publish Bidford-on-Avon excavations
Friday 19 October 2012
Anglo-Saxon Portraits airs this week on BBC Radio 3 featuring Martin Carver
Saturday 13 October 2012
Mathematician watches bone collagen degrade, amino acid at a time.
Sunday 7 October 2012
Ollie Jones has been gathering evidence to build a new Jacobean theatre on London’s Bankside.
Sunday 30 September 2012
The continuing legacy of the department's fieldschool excavations at Harewood House has been highlighted in The Press
Tuesday 25 September 2012
A new exhibition of work at the King's Manor Gallery is a series of explorations into modern architecture.
Wednesday 19 September 2012
Sarah Spurrier, current MA in Cultural Heritage Management student, appointed to lead English Heritage-sponsored initiative
Wednesday 19 September 2012
York's Heritage and Homelessness Project shortlisted for the THE Awards
Sunday 9 September 2012
Friday 14 Sept memorial in honour of the late prehistorian John D Evans
Friday 31 August 2012
Archaeologists in the department are working with scientists at the the Food and Environment Research Agency (FERA) to analyse gelatine proteins.
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Internet Archaeology is very pleased to announce the publication of "Visualising the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon: Digital Models as Research Tools in Buildings Archaeology" by Kate Giles, Anthony Masinton and Geoff Arnott in Issue 32.
Thursday 16 August 2012
The Department of Archaeology is in Clearing and Adjustment for limited places.
Monday 6 August 2012
3 new studentships available for October 2012 start.
Tuesday 24 July 2012
Archaeology Data Service wins British Archaeological Award (BAA) for Best Archaeological Innovation 2012
Monday 23 July 2012
Historyworks is looking for keen heritage interns needed for an exciting new multi-media project.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
A Programme of events - archaeological and otherwise - by way of celebrating the end of another academic year.
Wednesday 2 May 2012
Major achievement of the Memorandum of Understanding between York University and INTACH.
Monday 23 April 2012
Dr Gill Chitty joins the Department
Monday 23 April 2012
A new phase in the University’s commitment to conservation teaching and research
Wednesday 21 March 2012
The Royal Television Society announces that 'Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret' nominated in Science & Natural History category. Update... we won!
Monday 12 March 2012
The Wellcome Collection's newest exhibition opens 29 March
Monday 5 March 2012
£9,600 scholarships to support Overseas Students undertaking their Undergraduate degrees at York.
Saturday 25 February 2012
Pioneering archaeology wins Royal award for University of York
Friday 17 February 2012
What do you get when the Research Forum, the Viking Studies Research Group and the York Heritage Seminars (YOHRS) combine for a seminar...?
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Public Exhibition from the Bootham Park Hospital excavation Team
Thursday 2 February 2012
It’s a brand new year so it’s time for a brand new issue of The Post Hole.
Thursday 2 February 2012
£200 small grants to help with activities related to their studies.
Wednesday 1 February 2012
New book co-edited by Søren Sindbæk and Bjørn Poulsen.
Thursday 26 January 2012
...for the ‘meritorious services, outstanding performance and remarkable role’ in the field of Archaeology and Conservation.
Wednesday 18 January 2012
New apprenticeship scheme for three young people aged 16 to 19.
Thursday 12 January 2012
A warm welcome to Michelle Mundee and Sara Perry who join us from the start of this term.
Monday 9 January 2012
€1.5 million grant to explore the adaptation of hunter-gatherers to climatic and environmental change between 10,000 and 8,000 BC
Thursday 5 January 2012
Free public exhibition Working in Archaeology 9 January - 6 March at the King’s Manor, Exhibition Square, York weekdays from 9.30am to 5.30pm
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Two papers appear in the top 10 biggest science stories from PNAS and the Guardian
Monday 19 December 2011
Star Carr being made a scheduled monument for its rarity and archaeological importance.
Wednesday 14 December 2011
New research charts the use of silver among Viking-age Scandinavians.
Thursday 1 December 2011
New European-funded research network that will bring together an unprecedented range of young researchers to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade
Thursday 1 December 2011
An EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network exploring the transatlantic slave trade
Thursday 24 November 2011
5th university award in 15 years
Wednesday 23 November 2011
BioArCh uses state of the art mass-spectrometry to resolve debate over so called 'dog hair' blankets
Monday 7 November 2011
Eighteen were bay, seven were black..., but six had spots.
Thursday 3 November 2011
Director of the Centre for Conservation Studies £45,336 - £52,556 a year
Wednesday 26 October 2011
New volume edited by Paul Lane and Kevin MacDonald lays the basis for genuine, cross-disciplinary research on and engagement with the multiple layers of meaning and legacies of slavery in Africa
Tuesday 25 October 2011
Farming made no immediate impression on Baltic hunter-gatherer-potters, who still used their pots to cook fish
Monday 24 October 2011
York team turns ideas of mummification inside out
Thursday 20 October 2011
...modern dig cements the past
Monday 17 October 2011
A new research centre encompassing experts ranging from historians to biomolecular chemists has been established by the University of York and the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) to investigate human origins.
Wednesday 21 September 2011
a ‘user guide’ to practicing archaeology and working in the cultural heritage sector
Tuesday 20 September 2011
Major new Arhus -York collaborative project to develop a leading European research alliance in global medieval archaeology.
Sunday 18 September 2011
The Troublesome Raigne tested in a Tudor building
Wednesday 17 August 2011
Following our No 1 position in 2008, 2009 and 2010, Archaeology at York ranked first in three categories and first overall (again) in the 2011 National Students Survey
Thursday 4 August 2011
but builds new Quaternary Chronology for Britian
Wednesday 3 August 2011
12 month vacancy for a half-time computing and AV support technician
Friday 15 July 2011
The department honours one of the UK’s leading landscape archaeologists and a pioneer of computing applications in archaeology.
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Large-scale funding was awarded this week by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for an excavation project at Songo Mnara on the southern coast of Tanzania.
Friday 6 May 2011
...update from our intrepid undergraduates at Boltby Scar and Harewood House, and the launch of the Heslington East Community Archaeology project's website
Thursday 28 April 2011
to build upon existing strengths in early prehistory, bioarchaeology, and cultural heritage management
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones of a 600,000 year old mammoth, paving the way for the identification of ancient fossils.
Monday 28 March 2011
Iron Age ritual killing reveals remarkable preservation of brain
Monday 28 March 2011
What was it like to participate in the great excavations in British Archaeology?
Saturday 12 February 2011
Jo's 'superior study' of Cleopatra garners rave reviews
Tuesday 8 February 2011
Ashley's prize winning talk in November is now an Antiquity gallery item.
Sunday 6 February 2011
NSF-AHRC funding given for excavations at Songo Mnara, a World Heritage Site in Tanzania
Wednesday 2 February 2011
What does IKEA's Billy shelf and a Roman coin have in common?
Monday 31 January 2011
Hannah studies the mystery of the 'Lost Cannibals of Europe'
Friday 28 January 2011
Nicky Milner delivers the keynote at the York Archaeological Trust's conference
Thursday 27 January 2011
Intriguing find in Stratford-upon-Avon
Sunday 2 January 2011
New prehistoric painting in the Alps found by a team of French and British Researchers
Thursday 23 December 2010
How do you make optically pure flexible glass? Ask an archaeologist!
Monday 20 December 2010
€2.55 million to study Dynamic Landscapes, Coastal Environments and Human Dispersals
Saturday 18 December 2010
How significant are local concerns about place, character and identity within broader national and international perspectives?
Thursday 2 December 2010
How the fork changed everything...
Friday 26 November 2010
Our brilliant first-years put in a first-class effort fieldwalking in the Vale of Pickering
Saturday 9 October 2010
A new volume exploring man's role of the rise and fall of the British Fauna
Friday 8 October 2010
Find out more in the latest issue of the popular magazine British Archaeology
Tuesday 5 October 2010
New UniBus updates the 44 service...plus free transport around campus
Tuesday 21 September 2010
Department researchers bring the archaeology of parish churches to life at a touch
Monday 20 September 2010
ZooMS wins poster prizes at two international conferences - features in Science
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Following our No 1 position in 2008 and 2009, Archaeology at York ranked first in three categories and first overall (again) in the 2010 National Students Survey
Wednesday 11 August 2010
Stone Age remains at a site in North Yorkshire reveal evidence of Britain's earliest surviving 'house'.
Tuesday 27 July 2010
your editor cannot keep up with the number of dissertation prizes awarded to our students...
Tuesday 20 July 2010
Award for the Tarbat Discovery Programme
Thursday 15 July 2010
... another dissertation prize for York graduate
Monday 5 July 2010
Local schoolchildren are getting their hands dirty in the cause of archaeological research as they take part in a dig on the site of the University of York’s campus expansion at Heslington East.
Thursday 1 July 2010
Which of the seven staff nominated from Archaeology was named...
Friday 25 June 2010
3rd winner in seven years
Monday 7 June 2010
Martin's Rhind Lectures are now on-line.
Friday 30 April 2010
1. Transforming the Landscape: Gawthorpe, Harewood and the creation of the Modern Landscape, 1500-1750
Monday 19 April 2010
the "Mesolithic" has inspired artists to create a new installation at York Art Gallery’s studio.
Sunday 11 April 2010
Dr James Symonds joins York as a fellow in Historical Archaeology
Thursday 25 March 2010
New collaboration with ICCROM Rome
Tuesday 16 March 2010
Positions in the Department of Archaeology (Closed)
Sunday 14 March 2010
2 year postdoctoral post
Monday 22 February 2010
John's recent archaeological dig of the recent past
Thursday 18 February 2010
celebration for on-line journal
Tuesday 16 February 2010
Ten objects to represent York & North Yorkshire
Monday 15 February 2010
Applications are invited for a full-time fellowship in Historical Archaeology
Monday 1 February 2010
A three day Conference in June jointly organised by Conservation Studies, Archaeology and ICOMOS-UK
Sunday 31 January 2010
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr John Schofield to the position of Director of Cultural Heritage Management
Sunday 10 January 2010
Funding for PhD studentships, preparation masters & research masters awards
Wednesday 6 January 2010
A new research project that promises to significantly improve our understanding of Stonehenge is going ahead after receiving an £800,000 grant.
