Great write up by @gatescambridge.bsky.social about their impact on archaeology. T shirt on cover photo, courtesy of Gates astrophysics professor @luiswel.bsky.social, reads “if at first you don’t succeed, dig another test pit”

A new set of talks upcoming for early 2026!

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!

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...

New seminars in our PalEvo series

Rock art from the Raja Ampat islands of Papua doi.org/10.70460/jpa...

Coverage on our recent paper reporting wallaby translocation from New Guinea to the Raja Ampat islands

Raja Ampat fieldwork 2025

Coverage of our recent paper on Pleistocene translocations of marsupials

Congratulations to Dylan Gaffney et al., winners of the 2025 Ben Cullen Prize! They uncovered the earliest evidence for human activity in the Pacific, c.55 000-50 000 years ago. Check out our interview with Dylan Gaffney on the prize-winning research: youtu.be/kQMXnbQygcc

The World Archaeological Congress in Darwin, Australia begins today! Come over to our stand to say hi and learn how you can get published in Antiquity 🏺 If you can't make it, why not check out our collection of Oceania #Archaeology, which is completely FREE: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What can lithics tell us about the evolution of learning and development? Find out in this new article published in Archaeometry! buff.ly/uhyD5xu

My @antiquity.ac.uk review of the new book by Ueki, Summerhayes, and Hiscock doi.org/10.15184/aqy.... Well worth picking up a copy

Ancient DNA reveals Asian connection to Papua New Guinean people cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthr...

What can lithics tell us about key topics in archaeology - a few great articles already online in our special issue of @archaeometry.bsky.social and more articles to come: doi.org/10.1111/arcm... doi.org/10.1111/arcm... doi.org/10.1111/arcm...

New paper on some of the first ancient genomes from New Guinea doi.org/10.1038/s415...

Our new paper on marsupial translocations into Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Genealogies and oral histories as chronological networks: interfacing whakapapa (Māori genealogies) with Gregorian calendar year archaeological radiocarbon dates buff.ly/XwKPZ9I #OpenAccess #EarlyView #Aotearoa #ChronologicalModelling #Genealogies #Māori #C14dating #whakapapa

My summary of the exciting new excavations by @elliescerri.bsky.social and her colleagues, showing Mesolithic hunter gatherers arrived to Malta by sea

An overview of archaeological and anthropological research in West Papua based on our recent @anupress.bsky.social book.

📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...

Voyaging canoe from Rēkohu

The latest volume in the Terra Australis series explores the human past in West New Guinea. It describes the environmental and cultural history of the area and the boundary-making that has formed West New Guinea in the recent past. Available now doi.org/10.22459/TA5...

Despite playing host to around 300 distinct languages and cultures, the human history of West New Guinea is barely recorded in anthropological and archaeological literature. Our upcoming title is the first book to detail the human history of this richly diverse area. doi.org/10.22459/TA58.2024

New archaeological research reveals insights into the first-known seafarers to brave ocean crossings from Asia to the Pacific Islands more than 50,000 years ago www.sapiens.org/archaeology/...

2024 Raja Ampat fieldwork

Conversation piece on Raja Ampat excavations showing 50-55ka settlement in Pacific theconversation.com/new-evidence... Also covered in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2443... Original article www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A digital open access version of our community report on Raja Ampat archaeology is now online, available in English and Bahasa Indonesia hdl.handle.net/10523/43112

New book on West Papuan archaeology and anthropology coming soon via ANU Press doi.org/10.22459/TA5...