We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research. Sign up: forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...

Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York! Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology! maiacost.eu #DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction

The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983 - 1985) is an ArcGIS storymap documenting Peru's Internal Armed Conflict by York Digital MSc graduate Diana Mogrovejo, now a PhD student at Michigan State University: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...

Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️

We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online: Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling" To get the zoom link, please sign up here: forms.gle/qat71rvyPLRK...

FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen: "Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz...

FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present: "Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games" Sign up for the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz... #archaeogaming

FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. 🏺 To get the zoom link, sign up here: forms.gle/UipnxiX1vdjn...

Thanks Reb! This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT: Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺 Zoom link here: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺 www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...

🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025: archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa... His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Dec 6, 1pm GMT: Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting: "The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/77gL4FqfvK2V...

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 29, 1pm GMT: Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting: "Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/GYGe97ZTGbRU... +

If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

The future of archaeological survey!

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 22, 1pm GMT: Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting: "Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/KNBsB1SRnj8h...

Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology 🏺 PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data: "Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/PCg7QDpYmW68...

Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch! This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/VkwAomw96kAX...

Join us on 25 October for York's Digital Lunch! This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson: "The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...

Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online: Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same” Sign up: forms.gle/wLH7Eu11mwYV...

Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from @NWOFunding to conduct research on the 3D visualisation the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE). Welcome to York, Loes!

Digital Lunch, Oct 4, 1pm BST, with Stephanie Black, (Durham), on using Instagram & TikTok as an archaeology science communication "influencer" in the time of extensive pseudoarchaeology. 🏺 'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology' forms.gle/Nf6L9ABvZZW2...

New link: forms.gle/svPHSmmBxcuJ...

We are very excited about our York Digital Lunch lineup for Autumn 2024. All talks are hybrid, on Fridays, at 1pm BST/GMT. The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺 To sign up, use the following link: forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...

Greeting the new cohort of Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs today!

Amazing work from York Archaeology undergraduate Georgia Smith, who presented at the CIfA & The Council for British Archaeology's Early Careers Special Interest Group. Her title: "A Child’s View of the Past: exploring public archaeology through the lens of the Avebury Papers" youtu.be/_m_v5BwDEpk

Congratulations to University of York Digital Heritage MSc Beth Jones on her new role as the Community Engagement and Exhibitions Officer at the Museum of Oxford!

We were honoured to welcome Dr Daniel Kumah, a Lecturer from the University of Ghana as our Visiting Researcher to the DAH Lab. Dr Kumah participated in last week's Heritage Jam, met with our students, and we discussed future collaboration in support of digital archaeology and heritage in Ghana.

So happy to welcome Alex Brandsen to York last week. He led a student annotation workshop to train a LLM for archaeology. He also gave a lecture, "Digging in Documents: using Deep Learning to create a search engine for Dutch archaeology" Watch: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

Headed to #heritagejam2024, a collaborative effort between Harald Fredheim's BOCCAHD network and The Avebury Papers. This year's prompt is: "Archiving as Direct Action"

Congratulations to Alfie Lien-Talks, who completed his UG, MSc in Digital Archaeology and is now working on his PhD here at York. He managed TWO publications in one week, one with beloved journal @intarcheditor.bsky.social and the other with the CAA: journal.caa-international.org/articles/10....

From one of our recent graduates, after getting hired: "It's worth noting that a big part of them taking a gamble on me was that I had done the MSc Digital Archaeology at York. It has a very good reputation out in the archaeological world." Join us! www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

York Digital Archaeology MSc Matt Morton recently completed a placement with the Avebury Papers Project. Read how he created a path into the archive through Denis Grant King. Morton's work helps make digital archaeological data more approachable and engaging. www.aveburypapers.org/a-pathway-in...

We are extremely pleased that Dr Guy Schofield, designer of Viking VR and the new interactive Star Carr exhibition at @YorkshireMuseum is joining us in the York Archaeology Department to teach immersive & interactive heritage and archaeology. See more of Guy's work: guyschofield.com

Proofs have arrived for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Archaeology & Media in the 21st Century, which is Extremely Exciting

🥳🏺Finally I get to announce that our textbook Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies will be out this summer #OpenAccess!

Update! We've uploaded many of our Digital Lunch lectures. Catch up on research from: ⭐ Despoina Sampatakou ⭐ Ben Marwick ⭐ Thomas Kole ⭐ Eric Poehler And more! sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

2 new JOBS archiving digital archaeology at the ADS: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/news-events/...

CONGRATULATIONS to York's Christopher Wakefield for passing his viva with minor corrections last week! His thesis: Exploring Social Media as Engagement in UK Development-led Archaeology

CONGRATULATIONS to University of York's Kirsty Ryder who passed her viva with minor corrections. Her PhD was "Purple, White & Green: The Material Construction of Women’s Suffrage," examining women's liberation through the materiality of direct action.

SAVE THE DATE! The 2024 Heritage Jam will be May 12-14 and will focus on the immense digital archive created by The Avebury Papers, with a focus on Bespoke, Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD), a collaborative project between York, Sheffield and Leeds. 🏺

Archaeology on tiktok? Colleen Morgan from the University of York has been posting fieldwork updates from her excavation of a Bronze Age house in @unesconow.bsky.social's Hili Archaeological Park. 🏺 Funded by a Society of Antiquaries Beatrice de Cardi grant. colleen-morgan.com/2024/01/27/a...

Draw your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact from DAH Director Colleen Morgan, in Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era edited by @gabemoshenska.bsky.social. 🏺 colleen-morgan.com/2024/01/20/d...

Colleen Morgan's UKRI-AHRC funded OTHER EYES project has been featured as part of this NPR-WHYY podcast: whyy.org/segments/why... 🏺

CONGRATULATIONS to Despoina Sampatakou for her successful viva yesterday. 🏺 Her thesis explored digital storytelling, cryptocolonialism & Mycenae. The title: DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology: a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach