📣New OA Publication📣 from Beatrijs de Groot @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialhttps://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.70089  👀@🏺 from Late #IronAge Castrejón de Capote 🇪🇸 using petrography, XRD, ICP & SEM-EDS 🪨🔬co-authored with Luis Berrocal-Rangel (UAM) + Manuel Fernández Götz @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Re-opening our doors to Europe is great news for university students, people on vocational courses and apprentices! Hurrah! #erasmus #europe #KnowledgeExhange

School alum-chum Sarah Mallet captured these wonderful photos of the incredibly saturated winter sunrise here in Oxford this morning. No filter required! #radcliffecamera #Oxford @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk #allsoulscollege

Christmas trees around Oxford 🎄 📷 Instagram | Lucies_Oxford_Camera, Dr Laura Varnam, Spiralling_Oxford & Lady Margaret Hall

Julia completed her MSc Archaeological Science with us in 2024 (@hertfordcollege.bsky.social). Here she reflects on the research she conducted with our Palaeobarn (aDNA) team. 🐕🐕🦴

Thanks to our #archives team & their dedicated volunteers, there are now over 50,000 images on our HEIR Project #digital image (free to use) resource. HEIR’s core images come from lantern slide & glass plate negatives from late 19th C held in collections across @ox.ac.uk 📷🖼️👏👏👏 heir.arch.ox.ac.uk

What a year 2025 has been for #archaeology! We've had 2 (very) Special Features in @pnas.org edited by Prof Amy Bogaard (deep time inequality) & Prof Greger Larson @gregerlarson.bsky.social (domestication & dogs). Testament to the the breadth & depth of material we study here! #archaeobotany #aDNA

📢Wonderful news! @jk-viking.bsky.social & @rschulting.bsky.social are nominated for the @currentarchaeology.bsky.social awards! 🏆Jane Kershaw for Archaeologist of the Year & Rick Schulting et al, for Research Project of the Year. Please cast your vote for them! 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote

Introducing Dr Lachie Scarsbrook (Research Associate, Palaeobarn) - he knows a thing or two about dogs & aDNA (not to mention, Geckos!) 5 quick fire Qs: @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social - starting with your new research on German Shepherd dogs (GSDs), when do we first see this distinct breed of dog?

📢@pnas.org Special Feature on dogs is out! Prof Greger Larson (co-ed) says: Dogs are our oldest domestic companion. This collection of 8 papers answer a host of key questions and provide the foundation for future research into our most integral animal relationship 🐕🦴🐺https://www.pnas.org/topic/580

New research by @rschulting.bsky.social, J. Ostapkowicz & #CaribOx Fellow Dr Grace Turner - reveals that early settlers in the #Bahamas may have significantly depleted local marine resources long before European contact. #environment #impact #food www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/new-...

When did #cats arrive in China? A study led by researchers from #PekingUniversity and @ox.ac.uk used ancient DNA to trace the history of human–cat interactions in East Asia. doi.org/10.1016/j.xg... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social #PKUResearch #zooarchaeology #aDNA

Great day for cat archaeology all round

When did the #cat stop walking by itself & become one of our favourite companions? It's much later than you think! Lovely couple of 🐱🧬papers out this week to add to our #pet themed posts @gregerlarson.bsky.social @pku1898.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #aDNA #zooarchaeology #cats #miaow

Hey @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social ky.social, I hear you know a lot of new stuff about German Shepherds and aDNA. We need to talk about this - chat here on Monday? #dogsofBluesky @gregerlarson.bsky.social 🧬🐕🐩🐺🐶

📢🐺🐶And in our new section - 'more dog news' - www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... this study attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began. Spoiler alert: it's much, much earlier than you think! 🧬🐕🐩 @gregerlarson.bsky.social

In the Holocene, dogs & humans migrated across Eastern Eurasia together 🧬🐕This study offers new ways to study migration events at the community level rather than at the single-species level. Groups shared dogs & diff breeds were shaped. @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social english.cas.cn/newsroom/res...

Join us at 3pm today on Zoom and meet our course tutors! #openday #studyhere #archaeology #graduatestudy

What are museums for? Watch Dr Xa Sturgis's talk on the evolution of the role & purpose of the museum. The challenges & opportunities facing cultural institutions today as they adapt to a changing world @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social www.alumni.ox.ac.uk/article/what...

What a brilliant study from @biology.ox.ac.uk! The deep timeline & evolution of the kiss! xxx💋xxx I'm setting a reminder now to repost this story on #valentinesday 😍😘😗because nothing says 'romance' like 'oral microbes', right? Mwah! theconversation.com/when-did-kis...

One day left to register for the BAFA winter conference and your chance to hear @rschulting.bsky.social's keynote talk on the Charterhouse Warren site.

@ox.ac.uk @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... congratulations to our Palaeobarn DNA team & their international partners on this incredible research #dogs @gregerlarson.bsky.social

End of the day thoughts? Amazing what you find when you follow #archaeology on the socials. So much to unpick here but mostly I'm just sad that these shiny silver crenulations didn't last. They are: A E S T H E T I C. Maybe they went the way of the Aztecs &/or Mongol Empire. Come on, who took 'em?

This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!

🪧Job vacancy in Islamic Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Deadlines for applications 27 November 2025.

Roman Frontiers ECR network aims to connect young people working and studying Roman Archaeology with senior professionals. As part of their mission, they also run online CPD webinars. The next is on the 27th November, at 5pm UK time, and free to attend. www.bajr.org/roman-fronti...

Delighted to announce ‘Reporting Heritage Destruction’ is now available for free download: www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress... The book explores who reports heritage destruction, how, why and with what consequences. It culminates in the #OxfordRecommendations for ethical reporting.

Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford? Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree. Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...

Policy by @eamena.bsky.social & partners in Jordan & the State of Palestine calls for a uniting of natural & cultural dimensions within 1 system, recognising the interdependence between people & environment & scientific understanding of climate risks. 📸 by H. Abedalhaleem. Read more: bit.ly/4oi8Kk9

What to know more about radiocarbon or chronological modelling? Our 2026 short course is now open for registration. 17th - 19th March in Oxford/online. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @philascough.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...

📣'Reporting Heritage Destruction' just published by Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS) Hub. Exploring how cultural heritage destruction is reported - asking who reports, what is reported, how, and with what consequences. #openaccess www.archaeopress.com/.../missingP...

Excited to launch our draft policy on Cultural Heritage & Climate Change in Jordan with Petra National Trust. It sets regional standard for sustainability & draws on studies from WH Sites: Petra, Jericho, As-Salt, & Baptism Site. English: zenodo.org/records/1725... Arabic: zenodo.org/records/1730...

The new BBC R4 documentary from Somerville historian turned investigative journalist Charlie Northcott is unmissable. ‘The House at Number 48’ uncovers a tale of secret identities, Nazi plunder and family history buried by war.

A discount code is available for the print version of this incredible book (coming out in print Nov 21st) on Feeding Medieval England. 💰📖🧑‍🌾🐄

Wonderful to hear Sir David Attenborough talk so passionately on #BBC Radio 4 this morning about the potential 40-mile (64km) "wild" corridor that could be saved, inc., prehistoric rock carvings, if this campaign by @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social succeeds. www.wildlifetrusts.org/saving-rothb...

This should be a fascinating talk about the relationships between people, sled dogs, salmon & the Yukon River. 12pm, 6 Nov at the snazzy new Schwarzman Centre. #BrownUniversity Register on Torch's website. @torchoxford.bsky.social #OxTalks #PublicLecture

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Congratulations to the FeedSax team! You can get it in print from Nov 21st. @archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

It’s University Archaeology Day #UAD25 #britishacademy come along, we’re all here till 4pm

It's always so great to see our MSc Arch Science student research published. Congratulations McKenzie on your paper 'Redefining SW Amazonian chronologies and pottery use at the Teotônio site'. #archaeologicalscience #graduatestudy @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Not all the #archaeological #fieldwork photos make it into the course brochures but if we ever need 'unofficial' staff profile pics these might do - sponge on a stick anyone? #ironage student support hugs & school mascots #behindthescenes moments we still really enjoy @butserancientfarm.co.uk

The new Thematic Collection in the Journal of the British Academy, 'Decolonising Gender Knowledge in Sub-Saharan Africa' highlights the under-representation of Global South scholars, particularly early career researchers, in gender knowledge production. Find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eSnNbUPN

School alumna, Dr Emese Vegh, is giving a talk today for our Climate & Chronology seminar series, titled: Tiny Hopes - Assessing Biomolecules in Collagen-Depleted Bone. You can watch her in this BBC Bitesize video on #forensic science & the "CSI effect" on court decisions youtu.be/-xakFRCWpP4?...

National Trust members - there is still time to vote & use the reassuring 'quick vote system' ✅ to ensure management of these monuments, sites & landscapes remains fair and inclusive and not twisted by Tufton Street politics. Do it, then treat yourself to the most delicious scones in the land!

Wonderful light through the ‘skindow’ in the reconstructed Early Neolithic house at Butser Ancient Farm. With our new cohort of MSc Arch Sci students. #butserancientfarm

📸 friendly but mildly competitive cordage making @butserancientfarm.co.uk yesterday as tutors @rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere

Join us on Mon 27 Oct for an exciting opportunity to meet reps from archaeology depts & heritage partners from across the UK, & you get to visit the @britishacademy.bsky.social (a first for me too) &&& it's FREE!! #UAD2025 #studyhere #openday #archaeology. Register with the QR code below

Great to see Rosie Crawford again (alumna @spcoxford.bsky.social BA Arch & Anth) sharing her success & passion for #archaeology in this video for First Lego League. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Y4...

Not quite a #RomanFortThursday. Ground photographs from a recent survey of three temporary Roman army camps ESE of Bayir #Jordan @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social See the original report paper: doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @antiquity.ac.uk

Our work at @eamena.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social on these sites will continue with sites visits to the camps in the near future. They also featured on a recent documentary on the Nabataean kingdom #Jordan #RomanFortThursday www.channel4.com/programmes/b...