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Prehistoric people used a culinary method, similar to slow cooking today, to carefully extract animal teeth to use in decorative crafts, such as pendant-making, archaeologists have shown.
Posted on 23 June 2025
New analysis of the remains of two ‘puppies’ dating back more than 14,000 years ago has shown that they are most likely wolves, and not related to domestic dogs, as previously suggested.
Posted on 12 June 2025
Archaeology GTA, Makenzie Sorenson, has won the GTA of the Year Excellence Award for 2025.
Posted on 4 June 2025
Department Success at University of York Student Community and Volunteering Awards
Posted on 23 May 2025
York Conservation Alumna wins major Civic Trust Award for work on Becket's Chapel.
Posted on 2 May 2025
Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of gladiatorial combat between a human and a lion.
Posted on 24 April 2025
In a major contribution to current debates, a new open access paper in Cambridge Archaeological Journal presents latest perspectives on Neolithic kinship, genetic relatedness and the use of large monuments like Newgrange.
Posted on 4 April 2025
A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago.