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Thursday 18 May 2023
Scientists have unearthed a story of forgotten children of the past, providing the first direct evidence of the lives of early nineteenth-century ‘pauper apprentices’.
Tuesday 9 May 2023
Sophy Charlton and Michelle Alexander have been successfully awarded a Research Grant from the Society of Antiquaries to undertake state-of-the-art isotopic methodologies which have yet to be applied to British early prehistoric assemblages.
Thursday 27 April 2023
Research into grape pips found from an excavated Byzantine monastery in Israel hints at the origins of the ‘mysterious’ Gaza wine and the history of grapevine cultivation in desert conditions.
Friday 14 April 2023
A new £8.8 million research project aims to discover how societies across the Western Mediterranean overcame environmental challenges and inspired a ‘green revolution’ over the course of 1,000 years.
Monday 3 April 2023
Dr Lara González Carretero of the Department of Archaeology has been named as a recipient of a 2023 Trail-Crisp award from the Linnean Society of London.
Thursday 30 March 2023
People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new research on ancient DNA.
Wednesday 22 March 2023
Archaeology at York placed 5th in the UK and 20th in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2023).
Wednesday 15 March 2023
A new study has found evidence of cheesemaking, using milk from multiple animals in Late Neolithic Poland.
Wednesday 22 February 2023
New research has revealed humans living on the Mediterranean coast 9,500 years ago may have relied more heavily on a fish diet than previously thought.
Monday 20 February 2023
Researchers have used specialist imaging techniques to map proteins in ancient human teeth to study the preservation of proteins in archaeological remains.
Thursday 2 February 2023
Archaeologists have found what they say is the first solid scientific evidence suggesting that Vikings crossed the North Sea to Britain with dogs and horses.
Thursday 2 February 2023
A University of York academic was part of an international team of researchers who have shed new light on the chemical substances used by the Egyptian embalmers.
Friday 27 January 2023
The Yorkshire Museum in York has in its collections 16 Roman gypsum burial casts created from the ancient Roman practice of pouring liquid gypsum or plaster over the corpses of adults and children in stone or lead coffins before deposition in the ground.
Tuesday 10 January 2023
The archives of the world-famous megalithic monuments at Avebury in Wiltshire are to be digitised and made available online.
Friday 23 December 2022
Analysis of more than 1,200 vessels from hunter-gatherer sites has shown that pottery-making techniques spread vast distances over a short period of time through social traditions being passed on.
Thursday 22 December 2022
Researchers used story-writing to explore schoolchildren’s perceptions of marine plastic litter and the effects on their behaviours to the problem.
Tuesday 6 December 2022
We are pleased to announce to two new PhD studentship funded through the NERC collaborative Doctoral Training Programme: Adapting to the Challenges of a Changing Environment (ACCE).
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Dr Kate Giles has just published a new book on the medieval wall paintings of Pickering Church.
Tuesday 6 December 2022
Dr Penny Bickle appears on Japan's longest running archaeology TV programme.
Tuesday 15 November 2022
'World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation' presents an insight into discussions surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it.
Wednesday 26 October 2022
Researchers studying the teeth of an elderly woman who lived 2,000 years ago have charted her diet from infancy to just before her death.
Tuesday 25 October 2022
Researchers have obtained the first genetic data from Palaeolithic human individuals in the UK, and the oldest human DNA from the British Isles thus far.
Monday 10 October 2022
Annabel is the only archaeologist to receive funding in this round.
Tuesday 27 September 2022
An invitation for expressions of interest
Tuesday 20 September 2022
York’s Department of Archaeology placed 5th in the UK according to the latest release of The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide (2023).
Wednesday 31 August 2022
PG students recording York Minster's medieval west doorway
Wednesday 31 August 2022
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2023: Invitations for expressions of interest
Tuesday 30 August 2022
In Hidden Depths, Dr Penny Spikins demonstrates that by looking into the distant archaeological record, and into the evolutionary processes which drove our minds and emotions, we find hidden depths of emotional vulnerability which have driven human connection.
Friday 8 July 2022
We’re delighted to have some of the happiest forensic and archaeological sciences students in the UK.
Wednesday 6 July 2022
Residents in York are being invited to bring in their personal treasures for a unique digital museum collection.
Wednesday 15 June 2022
Archaeology at York is ranked as 8th in the UK by the Complete University Guide.
Wednesday 15 June 2022
The Antiquity Prize was created in 1994 to honour and support the authors of the best contribution to each volume of Antiquity.
Friday 20 May 2022
York's Department of Archaeology is the 6th strongest department in the UK, according to the Times Higher Education's ranking of the latest REF results (2021).
Monday 9 May 2022
An emeritus professor at the University of York is leading a project to reconstruct the famous Anglo-Saxon ship found at Sutton Hoo.
Monday 9 May 2022
Grant success for Professor Maureen Carroll who has been awarded a Leverhulme Trust award to conduct research on her new project in southern Italy in 2023/2024.
Wednesday 4 May 2022
New ancient DNA analysis has shed light on how the black rat, blamed for spreading Black Death, dispersed across Europe – revealing that the rodent colonised the continent on two occasions in the Roman and Medieval periods.
Thursday 28 April 2022
A vacant shop on York’s Coney street has been transformed into a gallery, printing press and cultural hub as a project to breathe new life into the historic street gets underway.
Friday 22 April 2022
A new book from Professor Maureen Carroll and team sheds light on how the Roman Emperor set up a vast agricultural estate.
Friday 22 April 2022
Our early ancestors probably created intricate artwork by firelight, an examination of 50 engraved stones unearthed in France has revealed
Friday 22 April 2022
An interactive digital map has been developed by staff and students at the University of York in collaboration with partners across the city to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the York Blitz.
Wednesday 6 April 2022
We are delighted to announce that a leading scholar in the study of heritage will be joining us ahead of the new academic year.
Wednesday 6 April 2022
Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the world top 50 and maintains its place at 5th in the UK.
Wednesday 30 March 2022
Researchers from the University of York have been awarded three prestigious European Research Council (ERC) grants worth a total of more than £5 million, to support pioneering work in chemistry and archaeology.
Monday 7 February 2022
Looking for a PhD? We have two new WRoCAH Collaborative Doctoral Awards available, on Roman York and Cold War Berlin.
Tuesday 4 January 2022
Most of the people buried in one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain were from five continuous generations of a single extended family, new research involving the University of York has revealed.
Tuesday 4 January 2022
A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age.
Friday 12 November 2021
A project to breathe new life into one of York’s historic streets has been given the go-ahead after receiving funding of almost half a million pounds from the Government’s Community Renewal Fund.
Wednesday 20 October 2021
We have a new vacancy for an Associate Lecturer in Digital Archaeology to start in the new year
Wednesday 20 October 2021
New interdisciplinary project reveals knowledge production in archaeology
Tuesday 12 October 2021
A team from the University of York and the York Archaeological Trust took York care home residents on a trip through time to explore the city’s Roman heritage.
Sunday 10 October 2021
Universities and museums across Yorkshire and the North of England will explore the links between the railways and the global slave trade as part of a new research project.
Thursday 30 September 2021
The York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre is to partner with a new research centre in Australia to foster a wider global understanding of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Monday 20 September 2021
Department of Archaeology is in the UK top 5
Monday 13 September 2021
Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the UK top 10
Friday 10 September 2021
The Department of Archaeology has been awarded funding for an innovative international programme of training and research in a rapidly expanding branch of archaeological science.
Thursday 9 September 2021
Autism spectrum conditions are widely characterized as a cognitive difference which affects social understanding and behaviour. However, evidence increasingly suggests that the condition also affects engagement with material aspects of the environment.
Thursday 9 September 2021
Volume edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones honoured with award from the Society for Africanist Archaeologists The Society for Africanist Archaeologists this week awarded their 2021 Book Prize (edited volume) to 'The Swahili World', a major synthesis of the archaeology, anthropology and history of Africa's Indian Ocean coast.
Thursday 26 August 2021
Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius say they have helped shed new light on the eating habits of ancient Romans - with food differentiated along gender lines and revealing women ate more animal products and locally grown fruit and vegetables while the men dined on more expensive fish.
Saturday 7 August 2021
The iconic racing circuit comes back to life in digital 3D, thanks to an Archaeology Masters student.
Friday 6 August 2021
The Department of Archaeology is inviting expressions of interest from eligible early career researchers to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Thursday 22 July 2021
We’re delighted to have some of the happiest Archaeology students in the UK.
Wednesday 7 July 2021
Proteins from frozen canine faeces have been successfully extracted for the first time to reveal more about the diets of Arctic sled dogs.
Monday 5 July 2021
University of York archaeologists are working with British and US military veterans to recover the remains of a World War II bomber crew.
Tuesday 22 June 2021
Holding onto everyday items as keepsakes when a loved one dies was as commonplace in prehistory as it is today, a new study suggests.
Monday 14 June 2021
A new study has found interesting differences between rural and urban cuisines in Islamic-ruled medieval Sicily
Thursday 10 June 2021
Congratulations to Andrew Hill (BSc Archaeology), who has been awarded the Laidlaw Scholarship for 2021.
Thursday 10 June 2021
Felix Charteris awarded IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award.
Friday 21 May 2021
York archaeologists publish new book on the Viking Great Army
Wednesday 12 May 2021
Research by post-doctoral research associate Dr Lindsey Büster has been published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.
Wednesday 12 May 2021
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Informing our Heritage Future(s): Preserving our Digital Past(s)
Monday 26 April 2021
We have opportunities for lecturers in Museum Studies and Historical Archaeology
Wednesday 21 April 2021
Don was a much loved friend and colleague in the Department
Thursday 15 April 2021
Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers had different work-related activities for men and women.
Friday 26 March 2021
Geoff Bailey is corresponding author on two open access articles that have been published by Quaternary Science Reviews on underwater shell middens in Denmark and the Gulf of Mexico in the USA.
Thursday 25 March 2021
Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis shows.
Tuesday 16 March 2021
Archaeologists have a vital role to play in documenting COVID-19 waste but also in informing the policies that may mitigate its longer-term impact, a new study suggests.
Monday 15 March 2021
Two new osteological reports, positing pathological evidence for Roman period migration, and an Iron Age skull perforated and perhaps mounted for display...
Friday 5 March 2021
The Department of Archaeology climbs to 12th in the world and maintains its place in the UK top 10.
Thursday 4 March 2021
Wikithon to celebrate the Women in Archaeology, to be held on 11th March 2021. Please come along!
Thursday 25 February 2021
Opportunity to work on a project relating to marine cultural heritage in East Africa, as part of the Rising from the Depths AHRC Network. Closing Date for applications: 31st March 2021
Monday 8 February 2021
Dr Stephanie Wynne-Jones talks about her excavations at Songo Mnara
Wednesday 3 February 2021
Environmental pressures may have led humans to become more tolerant and friendly towards each other as the need to share food and raw materials became mutually beneficial, a new study suggests.
Tuesday 2 February 2021
Excited by the new film The Dig? Our own Professor Martin Carver - who ran excavations at the site 50 years later, discusses the real story in a BBC podcast.
Monday 1 February 2021
Researchers at the University of York have found chemical residues of grapes in medieval containers indicating a prosperous wine trade in Islamic Sicily.
Friday 29 January 2021
The Department of Archaeology is engaging in a new research collaboration into the pandemic's impact on the heritage sector.
Thursday 21 January 2021
Dr Jessica Hendy publishes important overview of archaeological applications of ancient protein analysis
Thursday 21 January 2021
Annabell Zander's volume, 'From the Early Preboreal to the Subboreal period − Current Mesolithic research in Europe', out now.
Sunday 17 January 2021
Colleen Morgan Awarded AHRC funding for cutting-edge research
Thursday 14 January 2021
Fern, Dickinson, and Webster's (eds) 2019 'The Staffordshire Hoard: an Anglo-Saxon Treasure' awarded Historians of British Art's 'Exemplary Multi-authored Book' prize.
Wednesday 13 January 2021
Extinct dire wolves split off from other canines nearly six million years ago and were only a distant relative of today’s species, a new study says.
Friday 11 December 2020
The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists has recognized that York's programmes provide students with career-relevant skills.
Wednesday 9 December 2020
A guest-edited issue of the journal Azania explores archaeologies of slavery in Africa
Thursday 3 December 2020
Dr Aimée Little, from the University of York’s Department of Archaeology, has been highly commended in the prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) 2020 awards in the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year category.
Wednesday 25 November 2020
A new podcast by students and staff at the YEAR Centre will showcase recent and ongoing work in experimental archaeology at York
Thursday 19 November 2020
Professor Maureen Carroll will be talking on the subject of infancy and early childhood in the Roman West
Monday 9 November 2020
Stephanie Wynne-Jones has launched a week-long special feature on the Women of African Archaeology on the website Trowelblazers
Monday 2 November 2020
York academic, Professor Jonathan Finch, co-edits a new book on the famed landscaper.
Wednesday 28 October 2020
University of York archaeologist Dr Jim Leary talks to the BBC History Magazine about his research in how people moved around in the past, from wayfarers to pilgrims, from drovers to long-distance travellers.
Tuesday 27 October 2020
The New Books Network features a podcast discussing The Swahili World with the editors, Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Adria LaViolette
Wednesday 21 October 2020
Experts use ancient DNA analysis to “decode” the secrets of “highly unusual” 14th-century burials in the Scottish Highlands.
Wednesday 21 October 2020
A University of York archaeologist is leading a major interdisciplinary project to explore the linked Viking history between York and Dublin.
Wednesday 14 October 2020
New article by team led by recent PhD student Theis Jensen
Thursday 8 October 2020
Online article concerns the use of social media in archaeological outreach work
Monday 28 September 2020
Article published in Post-Medieval Archaeology
Friday 25 September 2020
Conservation MA student awarded the prize for his achievements in the Heritage Planning Studio, which works with York Civic Trust
Wednesday 23 September 2020
We are excited to announce 15 fully funded PhDs on the chemistry and molecular biology of artefacts
Wednesday 23 September 2020
Harry Robson, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver E. Craig, and an alumnus, Hayley Saul and colleagues publish new article in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Friday 11 September 2020
This research will examine lead debris in dental calculus from a medieval mining population
Friday 11 September 2020
The Dissertation Fieldwork Grant will fund research into ancient microbiomes, urbanisation and diet
Thursday 10 September 2020
Book Launch: Landscape and Settlement in the Vale of York
Thursday 10 September 2020
Dr Aimée Little, from the University of York’s Department of Archaeology, has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) Innovative Teacher of the Year award.
Thursday 10 September 2020
A podcast produced by UoY archaeologists has now been published on Soundcloud. Based on research from the Department of Archaeology, it tells the story of Zanzibar's deeper urban past, focusing on the site of Unguja Ukuu.
Tuesday 8 September 2020
SPLASHCOS received an honorary mention in the award of the annual European Archaeological Heritage Prize at the recent meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.
Monday 7 September 2020
The results of a major archaeological dig – which included the discovery of a 2,500-year-old brain - on what is now the University of York’s Campus East have been published.
Monday 7 September 2020
Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the UK top 10.
Monday 7 September 2020
Best undergraduate and best postgraduate taught dissertations about historic buildings in York will receive generous recognition
Monday 7 September 2020
Archaeologists from York have contributed to a book which sheds remarkable new light on the political and social significance of Sheffield Castle.
Monday 7 September 2020
New book chapter from PhD student Al Oswald in Pennine Perspectives. Professional and Community Investigations of Landscape Heritage
Thursday 3 September 2020
A researcher at York, whose work includes studies of the evolution of mammalian skulls, has been awarded a £65,000 grant to study the mechanics of feeding in red and grey squirrels.
Tuesday 1 September 2020
"Pathways to past ways: a positive approach to routeways and mobility" published in Antiquity
Friday 21 August 2020
Medieval Archaeology MA student Harry Platts found the Havering Hoard on his first excavation
Wednesday 19 August 2020
Prehistoric people in the British Isles were creating artistic designs on rock as early as 15,000 years ago, a study has discovered.
Tuesday 18 August 2020
New book, Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500, demonstrates that movement was a constant influence on the development of the kingdom of England and the concept of Englishness.
Friday 7 August 2020
Open Access article "The what, how and why of archaeological coprolite analysis" discusses how archaeologists examine palaeofaeces
Friday 7 August 2020
Penny Bickle, Ian Armit and colleagues argue that understanding past migrations can help us support migrants today and in the future
Tuesday 4 August 2020
Kate Morris received funding from BAVS (British Association of Victorian Studies) to carry out research on Victorian mourning jewellery
Thursday 30 July 2020
The ring was found by researchers as part of the Urban Ecology and Transitions in the Zanzibar Archipelago Project
Tuesday 28 July 2020
Martin Carver, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, has been named as one of 86 new British Academy fellows in recognition of “outstanding contribution to subjects within the humanities and social sciences”.
Monday 20 July 2020
Rebecca has won the departmental prize for working with the Careers service at York to enhance her prospects.
Thursday 16 July 2020
Our graduating class of 2020 celebrated on Zoom yesterday at a party that included a quiz and some messages from mystery guests
Wednesday 15 July 2020
We’re delighted to have some of the happiest archaeology students in the UK.
Friday 10 July 2020
A PhD student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.
Wednesday 1 July 2020
Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Aboriginal artefacts off the coast of Western Australia.
Friday 26 June 2020
Dr Louise Cooke publishes multilingual Open Access Book on conservation
Tuesday 23 June 2020
York Bioarchaeologists and colleagues examine multiple lines of evidence to reveal de-Neolithisation process
Friday 19 June 2020
Prehistoric pioneers could have relied on shellfish to sustain them as they followed migratory routes out of Africa during times of drought, a new study suggests.
Tuesday 16 June 2020
MA Archaeology of Buildings student receives recognition for her study of country house stables
Friday 12 June 2020
Penny Bickle and colleagues receive support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF)
Tuesday 9 June 2020
This week the Department confirmed its place among the UK's most highly regarded departments for the subject of archaeology. The Department is ranked 9th in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2021.
Thursday 4 June 2020
The "Stone Dead" project will examine why stone tools were placed with the dead
Wednesday 3 June 2020
More opportunities with ADS released today - sign up for virtual opportunities over the summer
Friday 29 May 2020
Don Henson publishes an article in the European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies
Thursday 21 May 2020
In collaboration with industry partner Human VR, York has created a 360 degrees video storytelling experience for Park Hill flats in Sheffield
Thursday 21 May 2020
Senior Lecturer Penny Bickle contributes to new paper arguing for a complex web of gender during the Neolithic.
Thursday 21 May 2020
Scientists have discovered that the house mouse invaded European homes 2,500 years earlier than previously thought.
Tuesday 19 May 2020
York students are invited to apply to "Digital Archiving Assistant" and "Zooarchaeological Symphonies" positions
Tuesday 19 May 2020
Working in close collaboration with the Department of Archaeology at York, Jersey Heritage creates online historical and archaeological resource
Friday 15 May 2020
Human self-control evolved in our early ancestors, becoming particularly evident around 500,000 years ago when they developed the skills to make sophisticated tools, a new study suggests.
Thursday 14 May 2020
Abstracts due for symposium on June 30th 2020
Thursday 14 May 2020
Professor Carroll joins York as a Professor of Roman Archaeology
Wednesday 13 May 2020
York Undergraduate wins funding for his research project: "Hope found in the Cave: Reconnecting World Cave Art to the 21st Century Digital World"
Monday 11 May 2020
AEA grant will support her dissertation research on Pike trade in the late medieval Baltic
Wednesday 29 April 2020
Congratulations to the Archaeology PhD student winners and other contestants!
Tuesday 28 April 2020
A study has tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming that occurred in prehistoric Europe over a period of around 1,500 years.
Wednesday 22 April 2020
Hunter-gatherer groups living in the Baltic between seven and six thousand years ago had culturally distinct cuisines, analysis of ancient pottery fragments has revealed.
Monday 13 April 2020
Andy Langley, Estelle Praet, Joshua De Giorgio and Martina Tenzer receive prestigious funded PhDs
Tuesday 7 April 2020
York researchers show changes in self control through time
Thursday 26 March 2020
Penny Bickle compares striking or unusual examples of deposition with routine discard in "Magical, Mundane or Marginal"
Friday 20 March 2020
Jim Leary co-edited a new volume on Neolithic longhouses that includes a chapter by Penny Bickle
Monday 16 March 2020
The funding will support the development of a school workshop: Viking Dinners
Friday 6 March 2020
The Research Project of the Year award was won by ‘Life beside the lake: opening a new window on the Mesolithic at Star Carr’.
Wednesday 4 March 2020
The Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the world top 20 and UK top 10.
Thursday 27 February 2020
York PhD Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez has a chapter in "Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction".
Thursday 27 February 2020
The Department of Archaeology's Dr Steve Ashby and Aarhus University's Prof Søren Sindbæk (formerly of this parish) are pleased to announce the publication of their long-awaited edited volume on crafts and communication in viking towns.
Thursday 27 February 2020
Steve Ashby and colleagues ask what hair combs found in a unique pre-Viking burial can tell us about this key moment in the development of northern European society.
Friday 14 February 2020
Dawn Hadley and Catriona Cooper receive UKRI Enhancing Place-Based Partnerships grant for further work on Sheffield's Park Hill Flats
Thursday 13 February 2020
Launched earlier this week, UK Research and Innovation's latest snapshot of the UK's main supporters of economic growth features the organisation as key existing infrastructure.
Wednesday 5 February 2020
York Research Associate Vivien Deacon has a new article in Time and Mind
Wednesday 5 February 2020
Academics gathered to launch programme that will provide state-of-the-art training and support to a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in archaeology and marine biology.
Monday 3 February 2020
Annabell Zander and colleagues have published a chapter "Archaeology across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in western Germany: Human responses to rapid environmental change" in Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2016 Amiens Conference (published by the Société Préhistorique Française).
Saturday 1 February 2020
A new study shows that ancient Siberian hunters created heat resistant pots so that they could cook hot meals - surviving the harshest seasons of the ice age by extracting nutritious bone grease and marrow from meat.
Friday 31 January 2020
Paola Ponce and colleagues publish a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences
Thursday 23 January 2020
Some victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79 had a slower death than previously believed, new research shows.
Thursday 23 January 2020
The sound of a mummified priest has been heard for the first time in 3,000 years, thanks to ingenious research by a team of academics.
Tuesday 21 January 2020
The campaign has raised over £1600 so far for the Feilden Centenary Scholarship
Monday 13 January 2020
Research undertaken by John Schofield with Penny Spikins and Callum Scott in the University of York's Archaeology Department and Barry Wright from Health Sciences has shown how people with autism form different types of attachment towards buildings and places and create and respond to heritage values in different ways to neurotypical people
Friday 10 January 2020
Don Henson publishes a new chapter in the book "A necessary fiction: researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives"
Tuesday 17 December 2019
New crowd-funding campaign launched
Thursday 21 November 2019
Derek Parrott (MA Medieval Archaeology) and Katharine Waring (BA Archaeology) receive prestigious award for their dissertations
Thursday 21 November 2019
Jon Finch and colleagues nominated for the international PROSE Awards
Tuesday 12 November 2019
To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new exhibit has gone on display at the Stiftung Berliner Mauer on Bernauer Strasse, Berlin.
Friday 8 November 2019
Funds will be used to purchase a high-spec SEM-EDX microscope for the PalaeoHub
Monday 4 November 2019
American and British veterans work together to bring home the remains of US aircrew.
Monday 4 November 2019
Dissertation title: Magdalenian Minds: An evaluation of the role of cognition in mobiliary art of the Magdalenian
Wednesday 30 October 2019
The EU-funded EMOTIVE Project demonstrates its outcomes at a public event at Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum on 30 October
Monday 28 October 2019
Two of the department's honorary fellows edit a new book detailing the discovery and analysis of the hoard
Friday 25 October 2019
Giles also gave an inaugural lecture: Public buildings, shaping urban landscapes
Tuesday 22 October 2019
Dr Penny Bickle has published a new article on Neolithic gender in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Friday 18 October 2019
Dr Jessica Hendy is one of 30 UK researchers to be awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
Friday 11 October 2019
Amsterdam conference was organised by the Dutch Castles Foundation, the University of Groningen, and ENCOUNTER (European Country House and Estate Research) network
Monday 30 September 2019
Joseph Empsall and Paul Docherty join Archaeology to conduct research in conjunction with major, AHRC-funded Immersive Stories initiative
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Dr Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez publishes in edited volume Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships
Tuesday 24 September 2019
Steve Roskams discusses the significance of water in the Roman world
Tuesday 24 September 2019
York is key partner in development of award winning digital archaeology app
Monday 23 September 2019
The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide ranks York among the country's leading archaeology departments.
Monday 23 September 2019
Yuka Shichiza received a BABAO prize for the best student podium presentation and Amelia Hall and Alessandro Dell'Anno presented posters
Monday 16 September 2019
Jess Cousen, Giselle Rainsford-Betts and Molly Hardman recognised for their excellent research
Monday 16 September 2019
The Award was received for the paper "Lost in transition: tracing cultural traditions at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in northwestern Europe"
Friday 13 September 2019
Head of Department Nicky Milner is nominated for the prestigious award
Wednesday 11 September 2019
Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world in the teeth of prehistoric British farmers.
Friday 30 August 2019
Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York Museums Trust, York Explore and Archaeology's Colleen Morgan created the exhibition
Thursday 15 August 2019
Well done for all of your hard work.
Wednesday 7 August 2019
Archaeology Undergraduate Student Amy talks about her A level results day experiences
Tuesday 23 July 2019
A masters student from the Department has found himself at the centre of an extraordinary archaeological discovery.
Monday 22 July 2019
Professor Milner is among 76 distinguished scholars to be elected to the prestigious fellowship in recognition of her work in the field of Archaeology.
Thursday 18 July 2019
Survival expert and TV presenter, Ray Mears, will officially open the University of York’s YEAR Centre – an outdoor laboratory designed to allow researchers and students to recreate techniques and cultural practices of the ancient past.
Tuesday 16 July 2019
The British Ambassador to Italy Praises Professor Martin Carver and the University of York for support of the Palermo Queen’s Birthday Party
Tuesday 16 July 2019
Survival instructor and popular TV presenter honored at Archaeology's graduation ceremony
Thursday 11 July 2019
They were once considered our inferior, brutish relatives, but now researchers are using the story behind early humans to help teenagers understand their emotions.
Friday 5 July 2019
We’re delighted to have some of the happiest archaeology students in the UK.
Wednesday 3 July 2019
Andy Needham has been awarded a prestigious three-year British Academy Research Fellowship.
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Lab supports departmental specialisation in digital techniques
Monday 1 July 2019
York PhD student presented her research on material and gendered experiences of the female reformers in 1819
Friday 21 June 2019
Americans working on submerged landscapes and underwater archaeology convened a two day meeting of presentations and discussions at the Smithsonian Museum.
Wednesday 19 June 2019
Rowan Patel publishes "The Lane End Plateway: An Early Railway in the Staffordshire Potteries"
Wednesday 19 June 2019
A new paper written by academics in Archaeology has been published in the journal Heritage Science.
Tuesday 11 June 2019
A grape variety, still used in wine production in France today, can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
Tuesday 11 June 2019
Professor John Schofield’s father never spoke about his work. Having signed the Official Secrets Act he couldn’t.
Monday 10 June 2019
Ellie Lees and Phoebe Ronn win Department of Archaeology employability prize 2019
Friday 7 June 2019
Archaeology at York in the top ten in the Guardian University Guide.
Friday 7 June 2019
Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day.
Tuesday 4 June 2019
Project SeaChanges will support 15 fully-funded PhD studentships to train researchers in archaeology and marine ecology.
Friday 24 May 2019
A unique bark shield, thought to have been constructed with wooden laths during the Iron Age, has provided new insight into the construction and design of prehistoric weaponry.
Thursday 23 May 2019
Dr Jonathan Finch has published the book 'Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe' which studies the role of the landed estate as an agent in the shaping of landscapes and societies over the past five centuries.
Thursday 16 May 2019
Professor Dawn Hadley carried out a multidisciplinary investigation of charnel houses
Thursday 9 May 2019
Colleen Morgan publishes new article on posthuman theory in digital archaeology
Thursday 9 May 2019
Dr Paola Ponce finds evidence of dental disease, trauma, joint disease and metabolic disease in human remains at a West Sussex site
Thursday 9 May 2019
York lecturer and two York alumna publish co-authored research on creating rules-based chatbots for heritage sites
Tuesday 7 May 2019
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments.
Friday 3 May 2019
Staff members Robson, Knight, Milner and Little co-author several new publications
Thursday 2 May 2019
Alice Toso of the Department of Archaeology publishes isotopic analysis of medieval Muslim populations
Wednesday 1 May 2019
A York researcher analyses coastal archaeology in South American sambaquis
Monday 29 April 2019
Aimée Little and colleagues describe project on Early Mesolithic human cremation burials
Monday 29 April 2019
York's Martin Robinson (Department of Electronic Engineering) and Archaeology's Aimée Little, Samuel Cobb, and Steve Ashby and colleagues publish on their innovative research into dielectric measurement
Monday 29 April 2019
Michelle Alexander and her colleagues publish on the diet and economy of the medieval city of Valencia under Visigothic, Muslim and Christian rule
Thursday 18 April 2019
An online course on Star Carr goes live July 1st
Wednesday 17 April 2019
The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills.
Tuesday 16 April 2019
Experts in archaeology, music, history, history of art, and medieval studies at the University of York give their reactions to the Notre Dame Cathedral fire in Paris.
Wednesday 10 April 2019
Congratulations to Alyssa Loyless who received the award to study peripheral temple sites and cultural features of Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia
Tuesday 9 April 2019
York lecturer Andre Colonese publishes new research on the making and use of personal ornaments by early anatomically modern humans
Monday 8 April 2019
John Schofield is giving lectures and conducting research in Australia
Monday 1 April 2019
New research suggests a population of red squirrels on the Lancashire coast may have developed weaker bites after snacking on peanuts.
Thursday 21 March 2019
Archaeological monograph is available Open Access on the Archaeology Data Service
Friday 15 March 2019
Andy Langley instructed Key Stage 2 Students in Mesolithic themed hands-on experiments
Friday 15 March 2019
Jackie Jansen van Doorn speaks about her research on dark heritage on Military Museums podcast
Friday 15 March 2019
Current Archaeological Information Systems student publishes "Visualizing the York Minster as Papercraft"
Tuesday 12 March 2019
York Master's Alumna Emma "Bruni" Boast instrumental in preservation of the practice
Saturday 9 March 2019
The Archaeology Department will attend the SAA conference in April 2019
Friday 8 March 2019
Newly funded Centre examines how the relationship between humanity and the natural world is changing, and how we might develop and maintain a sustainable Earth
Monday 4 March 2019
Colleen Morgan and colleagues publish a new book chapter on aural augmented reality
Friday 1 March 2019
The MoU was signed with the Departments of Archaeology and History
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the world top 20 and UK top 5.
Wednesday 20 February 2019
Harry Robson, Alexandre Lucquin and Oliver Craig reveal publish organic residue analysis of pottery results in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Monday 18 February 2019
Article in Science is unprecedented study spanning 150 years and thousands of miles, reveals the genetic basis for the animal's fightback against the deadly myxoma virus
Friday 15 February 2019
The York Experimental Archaeology Research (YEAR) Centre celebrates with a new blog detailing research
Friday 15 February 2019
Formative Britain is a highly illustrated book that presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD
Friday 8 February 2019
Groundbreaking researcher in the study of ancient proteins joins BioArCh
Tuesday 29 January 2019
Colleen Morgan co-authors a new article in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
Monday 28 January 2019
Check out this incredible choose-your-own-adventure video by Amy, a first year Archaeology and Heritage student
Monday 28 January 2019
The project has received funding for further investigation this summer
Friday 18 January 2019
Professor Nicky Milner becomes head of the Archaeology Department
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Brand new podcast to help you get ideas and insights into a wide range of careers.
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Dr Daryl Stump has co-edited a new volume examining how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans
Monday 14 January 2019
Five individual skeletons have been 'brought to life,' informed by osteological research
Thursday 10 January 2019
Precious blue pigment preserved in the dental plaque of an 11th-century woman has revealed the earliest evidence that medieval women may have been the artists behind some of Europe’s most richly illustrated books.
Tuesday 8 January 2019
PhD student Jesse Hennekam wins for his reconstruction of the skull of a giant dormouse
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Lecturers Perry and Taylor reflect on the challenges of integrating digital archaeology into mainstream practice
Friday 4 January 2019
York archaeologist Steve Ashby features in a new archaeological documentary series on Channel 5 this week
Thursday 20 December 2018
York senior lecturer Jon Finch travelled to California to speak about his work
Wednesday 19 December 2018
Researchers have traced the genetic lineage of the maize plant and discovered it was most likely brought to South America from Mexico more than 6,500 years ago.
Wednesday 19 December 2018
The relationship between country and British folk music is explored by York researchers
Monday 17 December 2018
York researchers edit a special issue of Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Wednesday 28 November 2018
The Department of Archaeology seeks a full-time lecturer in ancient proteins
Wednesday 14 November 2018
York professors publish a new paper discussing Viking finds distribution
Monday 12 November 2018
Alice Toso held a workshop for year 5 and 6 students
Monday 5 November 2018
The remains of a medieval skeleton has shown the first physical evidence that a fern plant could have been used for medicinal purposes in cases such as alopecia, dandruff and kidney stones.
Thursday 1 November 2018
Students Travelled up to Edinburgh for the Computer Applications in Archaeology UK Conference
Friday 26 October 2018
Third-year undergraduate digs into the Roman past at Hadrian's Wall
Thursday 25 October 2018
The award recognises advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all
Tuesday 9 October 2018
Article "On the Beach: What Archaeology Can Do for the Planet" Addresses Marine Plastic Pollution in the Archipelago
Tuesday 9 October 2018
Steve Ashby and Alison Leonard publish a new book telling stories about the Vikings through objects
Thursday 4 October 2018
New research has suggested that Neanderthals embraced healthcare practices, such as assisting in cases of serious injury and the challenges of childbirth.
Thursday 4 October 2018
Analysis of food proteins preserved in 8,000 year-old bowls and jars has revealed early cheese making at the prehistoric site of Çatalhöyük in Turkey.
Monday 1 October 2018
York Undergraduate Attends Highly Prestigious Training Hosted by British School at Rome
Tuesday 25 September 2018
The Department of Archaeology has placed 10th in the latest Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Friday 21 September 2018
University of York archaeologist, Professor Joann Fletcher, will open a new exhibition of Egyptian artefacts at the newly refurbished Bolton museum.
Thursday 20 September 2018
Research reveals that care for their fellows may have been essential to Neanderthal occupation of Eurasia
Tuesday 18 September 2018
New publication! York's Aurélie Manin is looking for archaeological evidence of the Xoloitzcuintle, a breed characterised by a sparse hair coat and a severe lack of teeth
Thursday 13 September 2018
Professor Hadley joins the Department of Archaeology as a Professor of Medieval Archaeology
Wednesday 5 September 2018
York's Al Oswald and students from the department
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Humans may have been cultivating plants on a narrow coastal strip in Brazil as far back as 4,800 years ago, according to a new study.
Tuesday 4 September 2018
Solidarity with National Museum, Brazil
Thursday 30 August 2018
York academics head to Stonehenge to celebrate prehistoric food
Thursday 23 August 2018
Research from 49 York staff and students features in 43 sessions about digital, bioarchaeology, public archaeology, and more!
Thursday 16 August 2018
The ancient Egyptians developed sophisticated embalming treatments far earlier and across a wider geographical area than had been previously known, forensic tests on a well-known prehistoric mummy have revealed.
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Volume covers research on human remains from the Near East and Europe
Monday 6 August 2018
York’s Dr Sara Perry publishes article on integrating the heritage interpretation skillset & toolkit into archaeologists’ most basic workflows
Thursday 2 August 2018
It is one of the most unusual primates on the planet – famed for its large eyes, big ears and thin, bony finger used for probing.
Wednesday 1 August 2018
Tim Sutherland organised the Year 7 project at the Steiner School
Wednesday 1 August 2018
York researcher publishes a paper outlining the reliability of soil organic matter dates
Wednesday 18 July 2018
British smiles have sometimes had a less-than-flattering international image, but a new study has put tartar from our infamously bad teeth to good use
Tuesday 17 July 2018
Nathan's research spans plant genetics, archaeobotany and palaeogenomics
Tuesday 17 July 2018
A study into some of the earliest known pottery remains has suggested that the rise of ceramic production was closely linked with intensified fishing at the end of the last Ice Age.
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Bones discovered at Roman archaeological also sheds new light on ancient historical source.
Tuesday 10 July 2018
York researchers publish new paper showing conifer resins on stone tools
Friday 6 July 2018
Archaeologists at the University of York have uncovered evidence of a late 17th Century Army barracks at Jersey's Elizabeth Castle, as well as a rare brass button from an Army officer’s uniform.
Friday 6 July 2018
Protein analysis of the parchment manuscript of the Declaration of Independence housed in the West Sussex Record Office has supported the hypothesis that the document was produced in the 1780s.
Monday 2 July 2018
York researchers demonstrate the contemporary relevance of traditional medicine
Monday 2 July 2018
New Lecturer in Field Archaeology appointed to the Department
Monday 2 July 2018
John Schofield gives a public lecture at the National Archaeological Museum and performs a DJ set at Tabacalera, a culture and arts venue
Friday 29 June 2018
Archaeology 3rd year PhD researcher has been awarded HRC Doctoral Fellowship.
Friday 29 June 2018
A team led by archaeologists from York, Berlin, and Buffalo, New York has published new radiocarbon dates that change the story of the end of the world-famous early farming site in Turkey
Thursday 28 June 2018
Increased marine productivity and sea level change supported a larger investment in marine resource by Mesolithic foragers in the central Mediterranean
Tuesday 26 June 2018
Anitia Radini from the Department of Archaeology is to work in Rome for three months
Monday 25 June 2018
Dr Louise Cooke Presented Work on Climate Change and Heritage
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Professor John Schofield's Archaeologies of the Contemporary Past will be released later this year
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Call for expressions of interest for applicants wishing to submit a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship in heritage conservation research
Friday 15 June 2018
"The Story of Things" is a podcast series exploring the meaning of everyday objects from the past and present that help us explain the world we live in.
Tuesday 12 June 2018
“This is a stellar piece of work that moves beyond disciplines and worlds.” · Anna Foka, Umeå University
Tuesday 5 June 2018
John Kelechi Ugwuanyi publishes new research
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Penny Bickle, Charlotte Rowley, and Annabell Zander recognised for excellent teaching
Tuesday 5 June 2018
Archaeologist, Dr Penny Spikins, returns for a second series of The Story of Things podcast, where she is exploring research projects in sporting events, voice recognition, bee conservation, and how the police force are tackling issues of mental health.
Friday 1 June 2018
Researchers make a first-time discovery for the period and region.
Thursday 31 May 2018
Professor John Schofield has joined other experts on the Galapagos islands to help develop a plan that will see the archipelago become a model on how to deal with plastic pollution.
Wednesday 30 May 2018
Paola Ponce co-authored a book with Lucy Sibun on a multi-period site in London containing the remains of 612 individuals
Thursday 24 May 2018
York researchers present a paper at the 1st World Congress on Migration, Ethnicity, Race and Health
Thursday 24 May 2018
The Case of La Marche (Lussac-les-Châteaux, Vienne)
Tuesday 15 May 2018
The ability to focus on detail, a common trait among people with autism, allowed realism to flourish in Ice Age art, according to researchers at the University of York
Friday 11 May 2018
Develops Archaeology Club at Local School
Wednesday 9 May 2018
HARP is a multidisciplinary team led by Aimée Little investigating a Mesolithic site in Ireland
Wednesday 25 April 2018
The Marsh Awards recognise individuals dedicated to heritage conservation, learning and development
Monday 23 April 2018
New AHRC grant for department
Tuesday 17 April 2018
Research on Flint Microwear Patterns at Star Carr Selected for Prestigious Award
Friday 13 April 2018
"Enhancing Nottingham's Local List" discusses ways to protect Nottingham's heritage
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Postdoc Robyn Inglis Participates in Royal Society Pairing Scheme with Maskell
Tuesday 10 April 2018
York researchers discusses the role of eyebrows in human connection
Monday 9 April 2018
York staff and students will work on the building as part of a new project
Friday 6 April 2018
Using Raman microspectroscopy, a team of archaeologists and physicists at the University of York have identified some misleading traces on ancient stone tools found at Star Carr site.
Wednesday 4 April 2018
Dr Harry Robson has been awarded prestigious funding from the British Academy, the voice of the humanities and social sciences.
Wednesday 4 April 2018
Professor Matthew Collins has collaborated with a group of international researchers to provide consistency to the field of palaeoproteomics.
Wednesday 4 April 2018
Dr Gianni Gallello, the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, has studied the poisoning cases of the Italian Renaissance Florentine humanists Pico and Poliziano.
Thursday 29 March 2018
A new exhibition in King's Manor by Dr Robyn Inglis has opened, showcasing the Department's ongoing work in Palaeolithic Saudi Arabia.
Monday 19 March 2018
York archaeologists publish new research into how objects affect us emotionally
Wednesday 14 March 2018
They have an unwarranted image as brutish and uncaring, but new research has revealed just how knowledgeable and effective Neanderthal healthcare was
Thursday 1 March 2018
Archaeology has kept its position in the top 5 UK rankings.
Friday 16 February 2018
Senior lecturer awarded funding for research on pastoralism and transhumance in the Western Alps
Friday 9 February 2018
York research student publishes in Quaternary Science Reviews
Tuesday 6 February 2018
In "Pencils and Pixels" Colleen Morgan and Holly Wright Critically Examine Digital and Analog Field Drawing
Monday 5 February 2018
Exciting opportunities for students on the MA/MSc Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology
Friday 2 February 2018
The joint appointment between the Departments of Archaeology and Environment follows the completion of Daryl's AAREA project
Friday 26 January 2018
The project is led by the University of York and explores the Neolithic Landscape of Lincolnshire and beyond
Wednesday 24 January 2018
Artwork sketched on the walls of the Sex Pistols’ London home has gone on display in York.
Thursday 18 January 2018
For the first time, research has uncovered the origins of the earliest domestic turkeys in ancient Mexico.
Monday 15 January 2018
Open Access Internet Archaeology article examines the role of digital recording methods and visualisation tools in archaeological fieldwork
Monday 15 January 2018
Professor Dawn Hadley will join York's Archaeology Department in September
Thursday 4 January 2018
York fieldwork officer Helen Goodchild co-directed a project at the site
Thursday 4 January 2018
York fieldwork officer Helen Goodchild co-directed a project at the site
Friday 22 December 2017
York archaeologists shed light on the use of ochre by hunter-gatherers
Friday 15 December 2017
Gill Chitty and Louise Cooke were part of the judging panel for INTACH
Wednesday 13 December 2017
The postgraduates created documentary films on their experimental research
Tuesday 12 December 2017
The 15th African Archaeology Research Day was held at the Department on Saturday 25th November 2017
Monday 11 December 2017
York archaeologists involved in the discovery of a Palaeolithic tool
Monday 11 December 2017
Don Henson spoke about the principles of public archaeology
Friday 8 December 2017
Eleanor Green won the 2017 award for her dissertation
Wednesday 6 December 2017
Former PhD student Tony Abramson received the award from the British Numismatic Society
Thursday 30 November 2017
Four students picked up awards for their exceptional work
Tuesday 28 November 2017
Geoff Bailey has been elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Monday 27 November 2017
Catherine Thomas awarded Society for Medieval Archaeology's John Hurst Prize
Saturday 25 November 2017
Masters students presented on Human Evolution and analysis of the pottery and structures of Moche Valley in Peru
Friday 24 November 2017
VikingVR wins Excellence in Media Arts category
Tuesday 21 November 2017
Dr Abdullah Al Zahrani and Khalid Al Asmari named leading young Saudi archaeologists
Friday 17 November 2017
John Schofield participates in a Galapagos Day event at the Royal Geographical Society in London
Friday 17 November 2017
Article questions using volunteers as a means to democratise heritage practice in the UK
Monday 13 November 2017
New publication on the biological information contained in the parchment of holy books
Monday 13 November 2017
Professor Sathya Varanashi will be speaking about urban heritage conservation initiatives in Uttar Pradesh and reflecting on these from his wealth of professional experience across the sub-continent.
Monday 13 November 2017
Introduction article covers Schofield's take on punk archaeology
Friday 3 November 2017
Dr Carol Lang and Dr Robyn Inglis launch new exhibition on the art of micromorphology in the Common Room at King's Manor
Wednesday 1 November 2017
York researchers visit Historic England to sample Wharram Percy
Tuesday 31 October 2017
York researcher publishes new paper on the stratigraphy of the Haua Fteah, Libya
Friday 27 October 2017
Sara Perry researches the link between archaeology and the origins of TV programming
Friday 27 October 2017
York graduate achieves runner-up award
Monday 23 October 2017
Elaborate cooking pots used by the builders of Stonehenge in special feasts and ceremonies, are just some of the items on display at a new English Heritage exhibition revealing the diet of the prehistoric community that built the ancient monument 4,500 years ago.
Friday 20 October 2017
York's Penny Bickle on how to make Neolithic cheese
Monday 16 October 2017
Head of Department of Archaeology publishes chapter in new volume
Friday 13 October 2017
York PhD researcher Francesca Dolcetti studies interactive digital visualisations and audience perception
Tuesday 10 October 2017
"Torpel Manor: The Biography of a Landscape" covers archaeological investigations of the Saxon, Viking, and medieval periods.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Zooarchaeological research traces the black rat to help understand the establishment of towns and trade in the medieval period.
Wednesday 4 October 2017
Stephanie Wynne-Jones is part of an interdisciplinary team researching coastal lifeways and cultural heritage in eastern Africa
Tuesday 3 October 2017
York researchers provide evidence for "complementary mentalities"
Saturday 30 September 2017
International Conference on European Country House and Estate Research with focus on landscapes, families, sustainability and heritage challenges across the region
Wednesday 20 September 2017
Annabell Zander organised and hosted the conference in Wuppertal, Germany
Thursday 14 September 2017
Skeletons: London’s Buried Bones Shows at Leeds City Museum
Thursday 7 September 2017
York staff carry out archaeological recording of the 16th century castle
Tuesday 22 August 2017
York researchers show that soil erosion benefited farming practices for around 500 years at Engaruka, Tanzania
Wednesday 16 August 2017
Prof. Julian Richards and Steve Ashby travelled to Denmark to present recent work
Monday 14 August 2017
Aimée Keithan receives 2016-17 Washington Fellowship
Monday 14 August 2017
John Schofield re-explores the prospects of archaeology as an academic degree in Current Archaeology
Wednesday 9 August 2017
Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) of the Danish countryside has helped identify an enormous late Viking Age fortification of near perfect circular form
Thursday 3 August 2017
Former York PhD postgraduate develops a new technique for reducing inaccuracies in shell analysis
Wednesday 26 July 2017
A chance discovery could help in the understanding of the spread and exploitation of cereal grains
Tuesday 25 July 2017
Stephanie Wynne-Jones and her team find houses dating to the 7th - 8th century CE
Monday 24 July 2017
Eleanor Green and Camilla Speller call for a wider range of biological substrates
Friday 21 July 2017
York archaeologists contribute to study of sea level changes
Tuesday 18 July 2017
The Star Carr project illustrator has been nominated for the prestigious award
Friday 14 July 2017
Professor John Schofield says we risk leaving the UK worse off culturally, socially and economically
Friday 14 July 2017
The grant will enable archaeological dating of a Paleolithic archaeological site in Saudi Arabia
Tuesday 11 July 2017
Collaborative BioArCh research reveals distinctive use of early Korean pottery
Thursday 22 June 2017
A series of podcasts discussing our relationships with objects
Monday 19 June 2017
Annabell Zander highly commended at The Excellence Awards
Friday 9 June 2017
A talk on the subject of the emotional significance of certain precious things in our lives
Wednesday 7 June 2017
A team of archaeologists hope to discover the lost Roman Amphitheatre
Wednesday 7 June 2017
Issue 44 of Internet Archaeology is now live
Tuesday 6 June 2017
Penny Bickle has co-edited and contributed to "The Neolithic of Europe"
Friday 2 June 2017
A University of York archaeologist has been awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Friday 2 June 2017
York researchers to study turkey development in Mexico
Wednesday 31 May 2017
Paul Edward Montgomery recognised for his heritage work
Saturday 27 May 2017
York's Tara Copplestone, Andrew Reinhard and Colleen Morgan publish chapters in exciting new volume
Wednesday 24 May 2017
Ashton Sinamai's new paper examines holistic approaches for the conservation of sacred landscapes
Wednesday 24 May 2017
York Masters alumni Annie Gray's new book looks at Queen Victoria’s life through her food
Monday 22 May 2017
Served as Visiting Professor at the Danish Centre for Manorial Studies, funded by the Danish Ministry of Culture
Friday 19 May 2017
"The Radical Landscapes of Peterloo" wins Prize from Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology
Wednesday 17 May 2017
ADS staff publish a paper presenting the key results of a major NEARCH survey
Wednesday 10 May 2017
Eve Rannamäe selected as one of the 30 faces of the Marie Curie actions to represent the over 100,000 fellows over the last two decades
Monday 8 May 2017
A new paper explores the challenges in creating analogies with Neanderthals
Tuesday 18 April 2017
Innovative new guide covers simulation, immersive gameplay and virtual reality in Forensic Science Education
Friday 7 April 2017
Film shows excavation work at the site of Engaruka, Tanzania and resulting important finds on climate change
Thursday 23 March 2017
New research carried out at the Konso Cultural Landscape highlights past complex landscape management
Tuesday 21 March 2017
Annabell Zander hosts 26th Annual Meeting of German Mesolithic Workgroup in Wuppertal with over 70 attendees from 8 different countries
Wednesday 8 March 2017
High marks for teaching and research draw acclaim
Monday 6 March 2017
Julian Richards and Steve Ashby's work challenges traditional perceptions of Vikings
Tuesday 28 February 2017
York lecturer wins inaugural prize for image of altar
Tuesday 28 February 2017
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Participatory Heritage
Wednesday 22 February 2017
Suzi Richer reflects on palaeoecological approaches to understanding past woodland environments
Monday 20 February 2017
York post-doc develops new chronology method to analyse trace elements in mortars
Thursday 16 February 2017
Papers from four York archaeologists feature in "Medieval Archaeology"
Monday 13 February 2017
The MA in English Building History is a collaborative programme delivered by Lifelong Learning and the Department of Archaeology
Sunday 12 February 2017
Congratulations to Andre Colonese, Camilla Speller, and Steve Ashby
Thursday 2 February 2017
Jo succeeds Dr Peter Addyman as president
Tuesday 24 January 2017
The University of York confers the honorary degree of Doctor of the University on individuals who have made outstanding contributions to society
Monday 23 January 2017
York zooarchaeologist demonstrates a new approach to fish bone data analysis from historic-period London
Tuesday 17 January 2017
Antler headdress features in the 2017 Ancient Britain collection
Monday 9 January 2017
York archaeologist re-dates 1000 years of Neolithic ceramic chronology from the Upper Rhineland
Monday 9 January 2017
The artwork is available to view in the Common Room
Monday 9 January 2017
The changing form and function of the ger is explored by John Schofield
Wednesday 4 January 2017
Pendant discovery made headlines in February 2016
Sunday 1 January 2017
York student awarded prestigious scholarship
Wednesday 28 December 2016
Article provides perspectives on the scale and diversity of the physical technosphere
Friday 23 December 2016
Team including York researchers uses a new molecular technique to identify the remains of plants
Thursday 8 December 2016
Head of Department John Schofield publishes more insight into the significance of Sex Pistols artworks
Tuesday 6 December 2016
Experimental archaeology at the Department's "outdoor lab" aims to answer questions about the past
Sunday 4 December 2016
York archaeologists part of international team discover a pair of mummified legs on display in an Italian museum may belong to Egyptian Queen Nefertari – the favourite wife of the pharaoh Ramses II.
Friday 2 December 2016
Kate Giles of the Archaeology Department examines paintings at the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon
Thursday 17 November 2016
Department of Archaeology welcomes Profs. Mike Richards and Carl Heron
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Lipid residue analysis of pottery vessels suggests diverse subsistence strategies in Neolithic communities
Tuesday 15 November 2016
York lecturer publishes new research suggesting people with autism were highly valued in past societies
Wednesday 2 November 2016
Former CHM student joins Council for British Archaeology
Wednesday 2 November 2016
The York archaeologist has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize worth £100,000
Tuesday 1 November 2016
York scientists say important archaeological remains across the world could be at risk
Friday 28 October 2016
Burial practices in Hermitage, Ireland were studied
Wednesday 19 October 2016
Nicky Milner and Colleen Morgan to portray historic "Trowel Blazers" to highlight the accomplishments of women in science
Sunday 16 October 2016
Ashley Coutu used isotope analysis to examine elephant ivory from the seventh-tenth centuries AD
Monday 10 October 2016
York staff Jo Fletcher and Stephen Buckley honoured by museum
Friday 7 October 2016
The viewer was developed by Marie Curie Research Fellow Fabrizio Galeazzi in collaboration with 3DHOP
Friday 7 October 2016
We are sad to announce the recent death of Emeritus Professor Don Brothwell
Tuesday 27 September 2016
Scientists have identified fossil proteins in a 3.8 million year-old ostrich eggshell, suggesting that proteins could provide valuable new insights into the evolutionary tree, much further back in time than was previously thought.
Tuesday 20 September 2016
Researchers from the University of York have helped to solve an archaeological dispute - confirming that Neandertals were responsible for producing tools and artefacts previously argued by some to be exclusively in the realm of modern human cognitive abilities.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
York archaeologists publish new paper in Internet Archaeology
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Archaeologists from the Universities of York and Cambridge have revealed the first direct evidence that Mesolithic foragers from the Balkans consumed domestic cereals almost half a millennium earlier than previously thought.
Thursday 1 September 2016
Sara Perry shortlisted for Times Higher Education's "Most Innovative Teacher" award for 2016
Thursday 25 August 2016
The Postglacial team have been shortlisted for a prestigious Historic England award.
Thursday 11 August 2016
Archaeologists from the Universities of York, Cambridge and UCL have identified rare human bones from the UK dating to the Late Mesolithic era (around 4000 BC, just prior to the arrival of farming in Britain) using an innovative new bone collagen analysis technique.
Tuesday 9 August 2016
Wood expert Mike Bamforth plays a prominent role in the discovery of "Britain's Pompeii"
Wednesday 20 July 2016
The project has won a prestigious 2016 British Archaeological Award
Monday 13 June 2016
Watch Viking experts Julian Richards and Steve Ashby play the new epic role-playing video game
Wednesday 1 June 2016
Star Carr and Internet Archaeology shortlisted as finalists in the 2016 BAA Awards
Thursday 26 May 2016
Laser scanning of rock shelter in the French Alps shows ancient art
Wednesday 18 May 2016
Danish National Research Foundation grants 4 million Euro Niels Bohr Professorship to Matthew Collins, University of York
Monday 16 May 2016
The University of York’s Department of Archaeology invites the public to their end-of-year exhibition.
Saturday 7 May 2016
Excavations will explore vitrification at Scottish Iron Age hill fort
Tuesday 3 May 2016
Maurizio Gatta awarded the "New Research Worker's Award" by the Quaternary Research Association and the Andrew Sherratt Fund.
Wednesday 27 April 2016
Steve Roskams leads a field school for students and members of Operation Nightingale
Monday 25 April 2016
An international team finds cheese residue in ceramic pots from the Swiss Alps
Thursday 14 April 2016
A research team led by archaeologists at the University of York used traditional techniques to create replicas of ritual headdresses made by hunter-gatherers 11,000 years ago in North Western Europe.
Monday 11 April 2016
£1000 prize for best archaeology/heritage research presentation
Thursday 7 April 2016
New dedicated issue of the Journal of African Diaspora and Heritage highlights work of York researchers
Thursday 7 April 2016
QS World University rankings place York Archaeology in top tier
Tuesday 29 March 2016
Experts on the Mesolithic review popular new video game
Sunday 27 March 2016
Watch Nicky Milner and her crew of students and professionals find the oldest Mesolithic in Britain
Saturday 26 March 2016
Schofield has "mixed feelings" after Tin Pan Alley town house with Sex Pistols graffiti is listed Grade II* by Historic England
Tuesday 22 March 2016
Archaeologists at York reveal surprising new insights into ancient pottery production
Tuesday 15 March 2016
Senior Lecturer at York discusses what caused the spread of humans across the globe.
Monday 14 March 2016
Dr Sara Perry and her team from York are playing a pivotal role in a major project to give a new lease of life to the ruins of the capital of Ancient Egypt
Monday 29 February 2016
Steve talks about his research on Vikings, combs, and more.
Friday 26 February 2016
11,000 year old pendant is earliest known in Britain
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