📣 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 😁