More than bones: rethinking ethics and epistemologies of bodily exuviae in archaeology…💩🦷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Geoarchaeology journal is looking for new Associate Editors. Get in touch if you’re interested and have any questions!

Current round is for projects taking place in 2026 & 2027, so submit an app now if you have something in mind for next year. NEMCAS has XR-CT and pretty much any spectroscopic method you can think of! Our soil thin section lab will be online soon, for my Geoarch colleagues looking for slide prep…

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

There's an amazing job up for grabs in Cork, Ireland!! Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology! Not only would the post be focussing on Neolithic Ireland and Europe but also have some archaeological theory on the side!! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026! Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/... @proftommoore.bsky.social

What I’ve been up to recently…get in touch if you’re interested in accessing the NEMCAS facilities at Durham. XR-CT alongside a wide range of complementary characterisation techniques in the archaeomaterials and OSL labs. www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

📣 New senior academic job opening 📣 We are looking for an outstanding candidate to join us as Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage! Learn more and apply: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... 📅 Closes 31 Jan 2026, 11:59pm GMT

New paper! Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

New paper! Thanks to @royalarchinst.bsky.social and Catherine Mackichan Trust for funding this research. Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK doi.org/10.1080/1461...

🔬 Behind the scenes of a research facility for #ADayInArchaeology Lisa-Marie Shillito shares how they're building NEMCAS, @durham-university.bsky.social 's new high-tech research hub using micro-CT & thin section analysis to reveal what the eye can’t see 👉 shorturl.at/dvub7 #FestivalOfArchaeology

What is research culture, and why does it matter? castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/what...

X Rays and Barley Mutants! A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...

Marvellous Middens at the Auckland Palace Excavation castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/06/marv...

Investigating the construction of a Bronze Age burial mound #geoarchaeology castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/06/inve...

Have to admit I haven’t got the hang of this site yet, and feeling the fatigue of too many different social media sites. I’ve mostly been updating LinkedIn, but I’ll start giving this place a try!

I thought I would make a starter pack of scientists working on #phytoliths. Please share if this is of interest to you, and do ask if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/8HEDmb9

“every archaeological problem starts as a problem in geoarchaeology” (Renfrew, 1976) My favourite quote from one of archaeology’s most influential figures. RIP Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, 1937-2024. archive.org/details/geoa...

Exciting news! Really happy to be establishing NeMCAS as part of the AHRC’s new RICHeS programme, research infrastructure for heritage science and conservation www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Super excited about our collaboration with @archaeologylisa.bsky.social and Riley Snyder on barley development. Check out Riley's first go at segmenting vascular bundles from an XR-CT scan 😁