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.

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”.

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

Friday 29 May 2020

Don Henson publishes an article in the European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies

Friday 22 May 2020

Applications open again

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"

Monday 23 March 2020

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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"