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6 March 2026

Investing in the Future of Archaeology - Promoting the study of archaeology by removing some financial barriers for under-represented groups.

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4 March 2026

New research published in PLoS One by Lara González Carretero and colleagues in BioArCh reveals that Mesolithic hunter-gatherer communities across Northern Europe exhibited surprisingly selective food choices.

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25 February 2026

The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CiFA) recognition continues for our Undergraduate Archaeology Degrees.

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18 February 2026

Big presence at conference demonstrates strength of digital research at York

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16 February 2026

Departmental team demonstrates that pottery from Viking-Age England was very rarely used to cook fish

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22 January 2026

Archaeologists working near Skipsea Castle in East Yorkshire say a series of rare discoveries is transforming understanding of life in the centuries before the Norman Conquest.

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26 November 2025

A new archaeological project aims to shed light on how Neolithic rubbish could help understand how Europe’s first farmers adapted to a more settled way of life.

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6 November 2025

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Oliver Craig and colleagues a €10 million Synergy Grant to study hunter-gatherer population dynamics during the Holocene, the current geological period that spans the last 12,000 years.

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