
Recognized for Excellence and Innovation in Research

A world leading centre for Bioarchaeology

One of the most specialized centres for Medieval and Historical Archaeology in Britain

Searching for underwater evidence of the spread of humans along ancient coastal routeways

Vanguard of work concerned with Archaeological Information Systems

Developing multidisciplinary approaches to European Research Council funded projects
York has grown into one of the leading research departments in the UK, it was the fastest rising Department in the last Research Assessment Exercise and is ranked 6th in the world based upon the last five years of citation data*. In 2011 the Department was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize in 2011 in recognition of research and teaching excellence.
*Microsoft Academic Search, Top Organizations in the World, Archaeology Departments.
Featured research
Almost all archaeological bones contain collagen. A team of BioArCh
researchers has been working with York's Centre
of Excellence in Mass Spectrometry to develop a method to
discriminate unidentifiable bone fragments, using a new technology they
call ZooMS.
An international team of researchers has been exploring the survival and identification of starch granules as a means of investigating plant diets in the past