Matthias in Africa

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The excavation at Gawthorpe Hall

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

Diving in Saudi

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

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Don's pig heads 2009

Pigs' heads

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ZooMS: A bone molecular barcode


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. 

Grains of truth? Ancient starch granules


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

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