Waiting for the #BayeauxTapestry BM ticket sales to go live feels a bit like 'our Glastonbury' 🎟️🔥 I've even set up an ⏰ on my phone. DM me if you know any elbow sharpening exercises I should be doing to prepare for the inevitable crush. #MuseumLife #countdown www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Oxford, reflected 🌧️ 📷 Instagram | UmairAtOxford (Photos taken earlier this week)

We're so excited to see the #SuttonHoo ship sail again (🤞in late Spring of 2027). youtu.be/J7jhAhQ34sM?...

Congratulations to Rick Schulting et al., winners of the 2026 #BenCullenPrize! Their research found evidence for the cannibalisation of enemies in Bronze Age Britain, marking the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence in British prehistory. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Festival of Archaeology 2026 - free support sessions for organisers

Congratulations to Professor Rick Schulting et al. awarded the Ben Cullen prize for their paper 'the darker angels of our nature' (free to read 🔗👇). @antiquity.ac.uk awards 2 prizes annually for outstanding work in the field of archaeology. @rschulting.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Introducing Prof Shadreck Chirikure (@chirikure.bsky.social) Edward Hall Professor in Archaeological Science. "The great thing about Archaeological Sciences, it is so inter-disciplinary, ...It combines, chemistry and geo-science and anthropology and problem solving’. www.ox.ac.uk/news/pulse/s...

For those interested in climate science, deep interpretation, and common sense, I highly recommend listening to this brilliant lecture by Prof Sturt Manning

DPhil researher Melody Li runs tea drinking & fan making workshops @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social to explore how museum collections, academic research, and lived experiences might meaningfully intersect through shared cultural experience. theoxfordblue.co.uk/breeze-brew-... @graduate.ox.ac.uk 🍵🫖🪭

If you need a lunch & learn distraction, this interactive periodic table website is so much fun! zperiod.app #chemistry #isotopes #lablife #archeaologicalscience

New research in @pnas.org on how Isotopic studies of human remains can track changes in dietary variation across transitions from wild food procurement to food production. Authors include Professor Julia Lee-Thorp, AKA: 'The JLT'. #archaeologicalscience www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Dr Miriam Rothenberg (JRF @ Christchurch College) researches how the community of Montserrat has been affected by & responded to 25 years of volcanic crisis. She was filmed for this documentary during her PhD & its shows how she draws on archeology, ethnography & geology 🌋🎥 vimeo.com/342107387?fb...

Actual footage of me, watching our followers getting soooo close to 2000 ...

Lovely bit of free learning in University Parks for my lunch break today and I can’t stop smiling now that I know the #neolithic ring ditches were first identified by the aptronymically named Dr Plot! He deserves a TV series @netflix.com!

Our lucky MSc Archaeological Science students spend 2 days at the start of their degree @butserancientfarm.co.uk & Thérèse & her team there never fail to challenge & inspire them before they deep dive into their lectures & our laboratories. #studyhere #archaeologicalscience #experimentalarchaeology

Read the Oxford Guide to Careers for insights into a variety of sectors, strategies for crafting successful applications, CV tips, alumni profiles & much more! www.careers.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/ox...

Jonathan Lim’s graduate research for his DPhil Archaeology took him to #Alaska on the hunt for the material remains of sod houses and other domestic structures in this beautiful landscape. Read his story map here - storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4af2... #fieldwork @graduate.ox.ac.uk

We are delighted to be hosting BA Arch & Anth alumna Sara Polak (@sthughscollege.bsky.social) who is leading a fascinating workshop on #AI & #heritage for #OxTechWeek today at the School.

No filters. No colour grading. Just Oxford, as it is 🫶 🎬 Instagram | DrTSuleymanov (April, 2026)

Writing in this month's @world-archaeology.bsky.social - Prof Manuel Fernandez Gotz & Prof Rubina Raja - Urbicide: Killing the city, pp. 136-7.

🚨Come and work with us! We're looking for an Executive Support and Governance Administrator to provide dedicated support to the Head of School and Head of Administration and Finance on a variety of activities, events & projects. archit.web.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies #job #vacancy

Me: Sometimes I worry that there's not enough evidence to show that beer drinking was prolific, both practically and symbolically, in 7th to 9th c. ad England. Archaeobotanists: Hold my beer. 🍺🌱Hannah Caroe, Amy Bogaard & Liz Stroud (Dream Team) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Jump to 19.35 to see current graduate student, Leah Tavasi, interviewed for this Falklands in Focus news update. Leah is conducting fieldwork on #shipwrecks in and around the Falklands to explore ocean resilience. #maritimearchaeology #climatechange www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MUh...

👀📽️Professor Sturt Manning (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) gave a brilliant, thought provoking talk for our Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology, 2026: 'Identifying climate changes that matter in the past & future relevance' youtu.be/J-JJecM4smQ?... #climatechange #palaeoclimates #archaeologicalscience

On Saturday a few of us joined the wonderful celebration for Judy Medrington - the impact of her 50 years of overwhelming generosity, passion & care for all the staff & students at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social and archaeology in the wider UK is too big to map. Thank you Judy! #411a

This book by Rose Ferraby & the @ukri.org Rewilding Later Prehistory project shared with @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social is so charming, not least for teaching us 19 new words for mud! Context sheets will need bigger text boxes! 👏🚜🍁🍄🌾🌼🌳🦫🐇🐛🐌🦋@kneppwilding.bsky.social

A great opportunity in #London next Tuesday to meet the Council for British Archaeology team and hear about their work and finds @cbalondon.bsky.social.

Spent the afternoon with Sofia from @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social picking out painted wall plaster samples for her Masters research. She's going to science them and tell us things about paint we didn't know. Oh, and @romanpalace.bsky.social, please be assured we NEVER drink coffee in the store. 🤥

🚨📕Special issue of #Archaeometry (our in-house journal) 'New approaches to the Archaeology of Biodiversity' edited by Alex Weide, Jade Whitlam & Mica Jones (@micabjones.bsky.social) #zooarchaeology #archaeobotany #isotopes #https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754/2026/68/S2

Happy Birthday David Attenborough! This photo was taken 20 years ago, but still has pride of place in the department photoboard. Uniquely amoungst people filming in the lab, he asked to go to morning tea so that he could talk to the students. @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @tommyhigham.bsky.social

We are all wishing the very happiest of birthdays to Sir David Attenborough! 100 years of showing us what a generous & caring impact one human can have on our world.

Thanks to School alumna Dr Charlotte Diffey for showing us that if you google 'archaeobotanical sample' & go to images, one of them is just a photo of our Professor Amy Bogaard. This makes us very happy. #archaeobotany #womeninscience 😍🌸🔬

My work in identifying these #Roman camps in SE #Jordan and our recent fieldwork is discussed on this recent podcast starring Bob Bewley and the @cbrl.bsky.social's Firas Bqa'in. @eamena.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

This new exhibition experiments with how anthropological research can be communicated to diverse online audiences. Prof Daniels's project invites us to rethink the future of housing by shifting attention away from demolition towards investing in existing buildings & the people who call them home 🏚️👇👏

A change to the start time, these special lectures will now start earlier at 3pm on Weds 20 May. @dylangaffneynz.bsky.social @tpuschel.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social

Oxford Archaeology's piece on the White Horse is a fascinating read. The oldest monument of its kind, it owes its survival to the local communities who have regularly been maintaining it over perhaps a hundred generations! ❤️ #prehistory #uffington #ridgeway #explorelocal 🐴📍👀🗺️🌄

We're back with the Ashmolean meets the Met Gala! We can't wait to hear your favourite looks 👇️👇️ 💙Hailey Bieber / WA2013.1.163 🤍Heidi Klum / ANMichaelis.5 🌸Naomi Watts / WA1948.34 🩵Anna Wintour / EA1956.178 📷 Getty Images and Ashmolean Museum

Public lecture this week: Are we overlooking simple lessons from #history & #nature in our search for #sustainability? This Weds 6th @kelloggoxford.bsky.social & with School alumna @hannahfluck.bsky.social (Senior National Archaeologist NT) on the panel, this should be fascinating!

🚨Professor Emeritus Mark Pollard's key text 'Analytical #Chemistry in #Archaeology' now thoroughly revised in its second edition is now out! 🧪🧑‍🔬📕Twice as nice! @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

POV: when you work in central Oxford on May Day. Every 1 May at 6am in Oxford, Magdalen College Choir perform from the top of Magdalen Tower to announce the arrival of spring. And then afterwards the centre of the city comes alive with Morris dancers and performers.

Happy Beltane everyone! 🥬🌸🌺☀️Up the May!

A short video introduction to the @erc.europa.eu funded Horsepower Project 🐴collaboration with CNRS, @britishmuseum.bsky.social & @leizarchaeology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=20zS... @horsepower-project.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr George Green - shortlisted for the VC's Breakthrough Researcher Award. He's jointly supported by us, Classics, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social & ISIS Neutron & Muon Source. hr.admin.ox.ac.uk/vice-chancel... George studies movement & manufacture of gold in Africa, Asia & Europe 👏🏆

I looked up the School's what3words address & of the ⬜ covered by our building I think I like: ///circle.elbow.useful best. I was hoping that at least 1 ⬜ would say something like 'timeline.gargoyle.arch' but still, now you know how to find us & elbows are indeed useful. Especially the round ones.

We're excited to see the 📕shortlist for the EAA Book Prize 2026 inc. 'Feeding Medieval England', produced by our FeedSax project team, led by Professor Helena Hamerow. The winner will be announced at the EAA in Athens this summer. 🤞🏆@oupacademic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

📣🏆👨‍🎓 we're delighted to share that Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz has been awarded a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by @humboldt-foundation.de. This outstanding honour is conferred to internationally recognised researchers in recognition of their entire academic record to date. 👏👏👏

@profdanhicks.bsky.social will be @dauntbooks.bsky.social in Summertown, Oxford on Tuesday 5 May discussing his new book: Every Monument Will Fall. Get your tickets today. summertown.dauntbooks.co.uk/books/every-...

Lunchtime walks in #Oxford are full of little discoveries, like this doorway designed by Antony Gormley & Simon Armitage @trinityoxford.bsky.social.

An inspiring talk today by our heritage colleagues from Iraq, discussing their work documenting destruction of heritage sites by ISIS & al-Qaeda. They are building new, trusted networks with locals. They’ll also talk at #BANEA conf at UCL this week. Catch them there if you can! @eamena.bsky.social

Our annual Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology will be given by Professor Sturt Manning (Cornell Uni) at 5pm, Thurs 14 May (in-person only) at St Cross College. It's free to attend & all welcome but please register here: forms.office.com/e/nr1i4ki7m1.