Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 45, No. 2 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680092... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social student Jessica Ratcliff, who is supported by a NEIF grant to date materials from these caves, reporting on her work with local partners to protect this wonderful environment

Three nodes of NEIF (Bristol, BGS and Oxford) are at the UK Archaeological Science conference. Great to see so many isotope and organic residue talks and posters! @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Current DPhil Jessica gives a fascinating update on her archaeological #fieldwork & research working with local partners in #Belize to protect its sensitive cultural & ecological landscapes. #caves @graduate.ox.ac.uk @sthughscollege.bsky.social Read her report here: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/graduate-res...

Dr Rouhani contributes to this piece discussing heritage groups, incl. @eamena.bsky.social project, working to record threats to heritage sites across #MENA using remote sensing or fieldwork, including in #Iran. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/w...

A 15,800-year-old fossil discovered in Türkiye is the oldest evidence of domestic dogs! 😮 Similar-aged fossils found at multiple sites across Europe, including in the UK, show that dogs were widespread by at least 14,000 years ago. Find out more about this discovery 👇 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

Hot off the press!🔥🗞️🚨 Congratulations to @gregerlarson.bsky.social & @lachiescarsbrook.bsky.social on this fascinating research. Like & see your your feed fill with #dogs 🐕‍🦺& 🧬! #DogsofBluesky #aDNA #prehistory www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

This was an interesting lunchtime read: How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins www.nature.com/articles/d41... including a gorgeous artwork by Pawel Patyk. #aDNA #SedimentaryDNA #archaeologicalscience

Did you know that @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social has podcasts and lectures you can listen to online? Highly recommended for any enthusiasts (or expert procrastinators) over the vac! 🏺🔍 #FYIFriday www.arch.ox.ac.uk/podcasts

This EA-IRMS has filled the space. It runs 'mega-fast' batches increasing throughput, and our tech Gary loves it! It's able to combust organic samples, measure C and N stable isotopes and collect CO2 in our collection system for 14C dating. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Our Bijan Rouhani contributes to article @aljazeera.com on how #Iran’s cultural heritage is being affected in current conflict. Reports suggest damage to several historic sites, incl Golestan Palace & Naqsh-e Jahan Square, both #UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Read 🔗 www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...

🚨📕New book by Prof Lambros Malafouris (@hertfordcollege.bsky.social tutor and Professor of Cognitive and Anthropological Archaeology) - available now as PDF #OpenAccess from MIT Press philpapers.org/archive/MALM...

The History of Parliament is excited to announce a new 8-week internship position for postgraduate-level researchers, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section. Follow the link below for more details on the role, and how to apply!

Read our Q&A with your future supervisor/tutor: Prof Manuel Fernández-Götz, Professor of Later European Prehistory. What does he think about the term Celts? When would he time travel to? Why didn't the Roman conquer Scotland? What's his #DesertIslandDiscs luxury? www.arch.ox.ac.uk/staff-spotli...

Our graduate students were forced to choose an artefact to practice with for their 'photographing archaeological finds' workshop with our inhouse photographer, Ian. R. Cartwright. How to choose from this tray of delights? #archaeologyproblems 💀 #graduatestudy #studyhere

Click on the link to read Volume 68 (2) of our #Archaeometry Journal. Read it online here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...

Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...

A purrfectly fangtastic new exhibition opens @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this week w/. expert input from Prof Greger Larson (@gregerlarson.bsky.social): PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pets-a... It explores the relationship between humans & their pets – or pets & their humans. 🐾🐕‍🦺🐈‍⬛

🚨PDRA job -Come & #research with us on Dr Anke Hein's new project 'China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China)' for a 4 year Postdoctoral Research Associate post. All details and to apply 👇. #ArchaeologyJobs @ox.ac.uk my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

A Workshop in Honour of Andrea Zerbini: Legacy, Archaeology, and Digital Innovation 🌠 CBRL invites you to a two-day hybrid workshop on 30–31 March 2026, taking place in Amman and online.

🏆Congratulations @jk-viking.bsky.social, Associate Professor of #Viking #Archaeology, who has won the 2026 CA Award for Archaeologist of the Year! You can find out more about Jane in her staff spotlight interview 👇 www.arch.ox.ac.uk/staff-spotli...

🚨Job alert: A fixed-term lectureship in #Egyptology (2 years) at Oxford, to cover the sabbatical leave of two members of staff, Richard Parkinson (2026-7) and Elizabeth Frood (2027-8); see www.jobs.ac.uk/.../departme.... or search for 'Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology' on: jobs.ox.ac.uk

One of our newest projects: New Bantu Mosaics, led by @chirikure.bsky.social is up & running now & the photos from the field are glorious! @alicejwilliams.bsky.social @micabjones.bsky.social Find out more at: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/new-bantu-mo...

🪧📣Research with us on this 3 year funded DPhil on Dr Hein's Technological Processes & Social Organization in Early Northern China project. Further details and to apply: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/fund... #graduate #research #China #Neolithic #pottery #Archaeology #scholarship 📷 credit: Dr Hein

Prof @gregerlarson.bsky.social joins 'A Dog's life' podcast to discuss how his work in our ancient DNA lab (PalaeoBARN) helps map our relationships with cats, dogs and other animals 🐕‍🦺🧬🐈‍⬛🐾 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

Dr Nancy Highcock (@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social) is the Field Supervisor for the Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project (TKAP). Her postcard talks about her #excavation of a large mudbrick 🏠 dating to the 2nd & 1st centuries BCE! #fieldwork Read her ✉️ here: preview.shorthand.com/4lwIX8v1duOO...

Lovely postcard in the School 'posthole' from Professor Amy Bogaard telling us about her recent #fieldwork in #Albania. preview.shorthand.com/4lwIX8v1duOO... And some glorious stratigraphic sections (if you don't mind us saying so!) #archaeobotany #excavation

Professor Shadreck Chirikure & Muchen Zhou (current DPhil) with friends at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social have organised this one day workshop on Weds 25 Feb @sthughscollege.bsky.social on #archaeologicalscience and the #African past. @chirikure.bsky.social

Another great Oxford study 🧬shows the people who inhabit 1 of the remotest regions of mainland Greece represent 1 of the most genetically distinctive populations in #Europe, shaped by a millennium of isolation w/. many lineages tracing back to the #BronzeAge, #IronAge, & #Roman period of #Greece.

Our friends in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social analysed a stalagmite to create a precisely dated "rainfall yearbook" which revealed a very large climate & cultural shift 3,950 years ago in the Yangtze Valley. Brilliant work! #China #caves #climatechange #chronologies

Calling all University students interested in learning more about #Radiocarbon dating & #Bayesian analysis. There are still free places available on this short course for #NERC & #AHRC students!

Special BA Arch & Anth alumna in-conversation event tomorrow 5pm @spcoxford.bsky.social - award winning playwright, El Blackwood discusses 'Theatre as Ethnography - exploring the lives of NHS Nurses'. Find out how anthropological methods have inspired & informed her theatrical career.

Congratulations to friend of the School and our 2025 Meyerstein lecturer - Professor Naomi Sykes - on this prestigious award! Will hope to see you back here so we can hear updates!

Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos

Prof Hamerow hosted a celebration for the FeedSax project team & their amazing open access outputs inc. their book 'Feeding Medieval England'. The School's Sheaf of Wheat also attended - #archaeobotonists will understand! @erc.europa.eu @archanchistleic.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social

Project Managers (Fieldwork) - Oxford and Cambridge Oxford Archaeology Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience) Closing Date: March 1st, 2026 Location: Oxford and Cambridge www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...

Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.

🪙 A Viking silver hoard puts Yorkshire "at the heart of a much wider, Eurasian Viking economy” says Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social as research reveals Viking trade links reaching deep into the Islamic world. Full story👇 #SSDConnections www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

If you are interested in applying to University anywhere, you need to follow Dr Matt Williams @jesusoxford.bsky.social for interview tips, personal statement advice, study skills and general 'how to think' nuggets of gold! Check him out on YouTube and TikTok! youtu.be/61MXakN87XQ?... 👨‍🎓📝👩‍🎓#studyhere

A new paper lead by by Jo Ostapkowicz on some wonderful wood carvings from Brazil @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In London TODAY at 5pm in person: Senate House, room 264, & online - Dr Amy Styring will talk about changing agricultural practices from the #Neolithic to the #Viking Age & how plant #isotope data transform interpretations of past human #diets. 🔗 Registration link: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

An amazing selection of talks & seminars coming up this term. All details available on our website Events page #archaeologicalscience #seminars #world #archaeology #medieval #bioarchaeology #archaeobotany #palaeoclimates #evolution #ancientRome etc. etc. etc.

📢Job alert! Come & work with us as the Project Administrator for Dr Anke Hein's exciting new project China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China). Deadline for applications: 6 Feb. For full details: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

Excellent news for the work carried out at Charterhouse Warren - the analysis carried out on the #BronzeAge remains, which has revealed a dark tale of brutality and butchery, has been nominated for @currentarchaeology.bsky.social ‘Research Project of the Year’ Vote here 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote

New to #Bluesky? Hello! The best way to find good people to follow is with #StarterPacks — type in a key word (journalist, historian, comedian, etc) and you’ll get curated lists of recommended follows There are now 324,000 packs, so plenty of choice! blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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👀📽️ Profs Jeffrey Sachs & Jessica Rawson discuss her book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China, which details the roots of Chinese civilization through the stories of 12 grand tombs, each helping to reveal a pivotal phase in China’s history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MqH... #Bookclub

Professor Dame Jessica Rawson's book 'Life and Afterlife in Ancient China' has been translated into Chinese by CITIC Zhongxin. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @bodartlib.bsky.social

Congratulations @rschulting.bsky.social your 'darker angels' of British prehistory paper made Antiquity's 20 most read articles of 2025! Everyone can read it this month for free at the link below. #CharterhouseWarren #BronzeAge @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk

We'll be at the Cherwell School this evening for their #careers event along with our friends @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social. Prof Amy Bogaard will be bringing her microscope & archaeobotanical samples from various archaeological sites so come along to our table and say hi!