New analyses revise theories about Mesolithic shell middens in northern Spain. The article usefulness of high-res sampling of growth structures in mollusc shells and measurement of oxygen isotope ratios as a sensitive measure of palaeotemperature variation www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

By examining food remains trapped in pottery, a team including researchers from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social show that ancient societies were combining plants to create distinct, flavoured dishes even before the adoption of agriculture 🍲 Open access paper in @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔓📄

New article from former PhD Student Dr. Khalid Alasmari, featuring a range of work by our staff and students (past and present)! Dr Delphine Joly (charcoal remains), Dr Stephanie Piper (lithics), and Kirsten Grothe (faunal remains) Read more via our news story: www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

New article in Nature featuring work by PhD student Lizzie Hodgson, Prof Ol Craig and Dr Sophy Charlton: “A key finding came from Pınarbaşı, where the data showed that domestic dogs consumed a diet rich in fish, closely matching that of local humans." www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Dr Émilie Pagé-Perron @epp.cdli.network is leading the new "Towards Universal Access to Cuneiform Heritage" project! It aims to transform access to cuneiform heritage through innovative digital tools and multilingual outreach, hosted at @ads-update.bsky.social www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

New article from Dr Adam Green, our Lecturer in Sustainability. This time with colleagues from around the world, led by the Field Museum, comparing archaeological data from around the world to determine an autocracy index, and identifying key factors for the collective-autocratic axis of governance

You can see @louisearchaeology.bsky.social show and talk about her No Stone Left Unturned in this Youtube video from last year: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DmQ...

Don't miss this new exhibition two of our students have been working on with the Anti-Apartheid Legacy Centre and Thin Ice Press!

Marina & Olivia, MA MuseumStudies @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social curated our coproduced w. @actsa-uk.bsky.social exhib, 'All Shall Be Afforded Dignity!' @Thin Ice Press #York connecting Kaplan’s art with local #antiapartheid solidarity via @uoyborthwick.bsky.social archives 'til 30 Apr #art #print

Updates from Dr Sarah Hitchens and Prof Maureen Carroll on Seeing the Dead. Sarah shares how she studies ancient textiles in the Roman York gypsum burials through impressions and mineralised remains and Maureen discusses the infants and children found in the burials. seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/

We are happy to welcome Maki Wardle, @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD student to talk about their placement at the European Space Agency (re-scheduled from last autumn): Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 🏺 To sign up for the zoom link: forms.gle/G8htZwmrhY6V...

A short video for #IWD2026 with a few of our inspiring female academics!

Don't miss this new article in the Journal of Archaeological Science! Our Lecturer in Sustainability, @adamsgreen.bsky.social and @simonmair.bsky.social have applied Material Flow Analysis to the excavation archive at Wharram Percy!

Museum Studies and Experimental Archaeology - a match made in York! Lovely little blogpost by one of our MA students, Els, who is on the Museum Studies MA, but really enjoyed her Experimental Archaeology option module last semester blogs.york.ac.uk/student-voic...

Both @johnschofyork.bsky.social and @haraldfred.bsky.social were invited to write responses to Marte Spangen's keynote in the latest issue of Current Swedish Archaeology: "Participatory Archaeology for Heritage Preparedness" You can read the full #OA issue here: publicera.kb.se/csa/issue/vi...

Congratulations Alice - so great to see this article published!

Thanks to @clmorgan.bsky.social for this news story on all our fantastic digital archaeologists at @caa-uk.bsky.social in December! www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Immensely proud of @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Digital Archaeology MSc Kevin Deng who has been featured on ITV for his work on Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. This is part of his job as a digital archaeology specialist with the National Museum of the Royal Navy. www.itv.com/watch/news/d...

Congratulations William Wells and supervisor Paola Ponce! 'An Exploration of Two Cases of Unhealed Proximal Ulna Fractures in Skeletons Excavated from an Early Medieval Cemetery in Lincoln, UK' has been awarded the 2026 BABAO Don Brothwell Award for the best UG dissertation in Bioarchaeology!

Vikings! Bioarchaeology! Artefacts! New publication from Steve Ashby, Gareth Perry, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver Craig and Anita Radini at @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social shows culinary differences between Viking-Age England and Denmark. www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

Our Digital Lunch this week is Dr Katherine Fennelly, "Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom" We're in the DAH lab at the King's Manor @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social at 1pm, or online. Sign up: forms.gle/SNNGkXpmGtB8...

Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form: forms.gle/GkbwzVZwBH3G...

You have until the 8th of April to apply for up to £20,000 to access cutting-edge equipment, collections and expertise in heritage science, including mobile units! Open to individual researchers, academic institutions and museums www.riches.ukri.org/funding/rich...

As part of the Medieval Green Revolution project, a postdoctoral position is available at the University of Reading on sedaDNA. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

New article from Dr Gareth Perry! It looks at the introduction of the potters' wheel to late ninth-century England - why was its use restricted to areas settled by Scandinavians, a group traditionally viewed by English archaeologists as aceramic? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics by @adamsgreen.bsky.social and colleagues! They analyse house sizes as a proxy for economic productivity and inequality over time worldwide.

New Open Access book co-edited by Prof Michelle Alexander, this multidisciplinary study dives into the frontier landscapes of medieval Spain and Southern France 🇪🇸🇫🇷. Features isotopic analyses from Michelle & Maite García-Collado via York’s BioArCh labs! 🧪 www.jstor.org/stable/jj.36...

Don't miss our students, @jimleary.bsky.social and the beautiful shots of Skipsea on Digging for Britain! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... There was also an article about the dig in The Times over New Year www.thetimes.com/uk/history/a...

Thank you @antiquity.ac.uk for sharing our research. Keep tuned, this project, led by our resident Danish DFF postdoc Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, has more to come! @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

Update from Prof Maureen Carroll's Seeing the Dead project. This time on fingerprints found in the gypsum placed over bodies in their coffins in Roman York, now in the @yorkmuseumstrust.bsky.social collection! seeingthedead.ac.uk/blog/fingerp...

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

Alumnus @theneanderoll.bsky.social presenting to a full room in the Invisible Threads session at #TAG2025: Love Letters from the Oldowan🧡🧡

Increasing human ecological impact over the Holocene (11,700 - 150 years ago) led to biodiversity gains in Europe. Why? From ~8,500 years ago, the spread of farming created heterogeneous, habitat-rich landscapes that enhanced biodiversity. Read our new paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.... 🌏 🧪

Fantastic work from Madeline Meltesen, @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Digital Archaeology MSc, working in coordination with the Avebury Papers project. Madeline digitised and rectified all of the old Avebury plans, made an interactive resource & examined archaeological knowledge production over time.

All @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Digital MSc students. They’re amazing!

Do you or any of your colleagues (especially those who teach STEM) have an interest in recreating medieval technology? Inspired by my all-too-brief interactions with the late Dr. Tom Mcleish and @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social I'm looking for friends or collaborators to try a thing!

Tabea Koch, a former @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD student, now a postdoc at the British Museum, gave a @cama-york.bsky.social talk entitled "Divine creatures: New molecular research on Egyptian animal mummies at the British Museum". With a title like that, it was no wonder we had a full house!

Kristy-Lee Seaton passed her viva with minor corrections last week. Congratulations Kristy-Lee and supervisors James Taylor, @hollywright.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy and @juliandrichards.bsky.social 💐 🎓 KL's thesis focused on the re-use of archived digital data from @ads-update.bsky.social

We love these replica Must Farm pots being made at our YEAR Centre for a Master's project 😍 @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

[email protected]'s Book of the Year Shortlist is out and both @johnschofyork.bsky.social's Wicked Problems for Archaeologists and Life in the Viking Great Army by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and @juliandrichards.bsky.social are on it! archaeology.co.uk/vote

Earlier this month, @pennybickle.bsky.social took her MA/MSc Funerary Archaeology students to visit the York Cemetery, with the support of Paola Ponce. The field trip was part of the module 'Debates in Funerary Archaeology' and was aimed at exploring memory and commemoration at the York Cemetery.

Congratulations @pennybickle.bsky.social and @hpiezonka.bsky.social! The press release is also available in English here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Huge @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social presence at @caa-uk.bsky.social! ♥️ Excited for them to show their brilliant work.

Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there: forms.gle/bcMCZNZUJPUq...

In case you missed it!

@johnschofyork.bsky.social and colleagues have a new piece out in The Conversation about this article theconversation.com/plastic-wast... If you find it interesting, you can read more in the original open access article in John's post below

Our very own Prof Maureen Carroll gave a fabulous lecture on the Etruscan Lady in York for the Society of Antiquaries last week. In the lecture, Maureen traces the fascinating history of a single object - what it is, where it came from, how it got to York and more! www.youtube.com/live/6PqbtQj...

Watching @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social’s Nicky Milner try to convince @gregjenner.bsky.social that the British Mesolithic is interesting and important 😆

One of our fantastic @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD students Elizabeth Hicks is using our new Wolfson-funded laser-aided profiler to quickly and accurately scan and photograph artefacts from the Swahili coast.

What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.