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David Orton

David Orton recently joined the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, where he works as Lecturer in Zooarchaeology. Currently, David is developing an interest in the animals with whom London's and York's medieval residents shared their cities: the pets, pests, and working animals that were a ubiquitous part of daily life.

"What I love most about archaeology is the constant challenge: of finding new ways of understanding the past from the smallest and most unlikely-sounding remains; of pulling together a thousand seemingly insignificant traces and making something significant of them."