Department of Archaeology
News archive 2019
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
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
Sunday 1 January 2017
York student awarded prestigious scholarship
New Technique Developed to Study Archaeological Materials
Posted on 29 April 2019
York's Martin Robinson (Department of Electronic Engineering) and Archaeology's Aimée Little, Samuel Cobb, and Steve Ashby and colleagues innovate research into dielectric measurements to examine archaeological artefacts. In an article in Measurement Science and Technology, they argue that it is possible to use these measurements to classify and identify the source of archaeological artefacts.
To read more, check out the article: Dielectric replica measurement: a new technique for obtaining the complex permittivity of irregularly shaped objects