Super proud of my PhD student Iseabail Wilks for her first paper (based on her MSc dissertation for the Masters in Funerary Archaeology here at York!). She applies archaethanatology to LBK Burials to under more about the death work that went into inhumations. journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16077?...

We have a small number of bursaries for this year's TAG - if you are speaking and fall into the unwaged category (students and those currently not in employment) please apply! Deadline 15th Oct.

Can share this again now that the paper has been published: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

The replica pots are out for the first time in a while! It’s time for prehistoric cheese.

So grateful to NEIF for funding this research! The new dates suggest cemeteries started about the same time, rather than gradually spreading from east to west. They reveal funerary practices on the scale of human lifetimes, and raise new questions about how burial rites related to LBK social change

New paper! Were cemeteries of the LBK long-lived, starting in the east and spreading westwards slowly? Our new 14C dates suggest they started contemporaneously across the LBK and were fairly short-lived (though this depends on what you mean by "short"...) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The last piece associated with the brilliant team effort to rethink aDNA results and social relations in Neolithic Ireland is in this month’s Current Archaeology magazine with an absolutely gorgeous cover image of Newgrange (credit: Ken Williams) archaeology.co.uk

Join the Archaeology and Worldbuilding game at TAG 2025 in York. Not your usual type of session for TAG! (though we have a few more things like this planned). If you are interested and can commit to the session sign up below.

⚠️DEADLINE EXTENSION⚠️ Did you miss the deadline for submitting your abstract to TAG? Not a worry! Due to popular demand we've extended our submission deadline another two weeks! The final deadline is now the 18th of August. Check the website for more info: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

This is stunning!

Was great to chat to Laura when she was researching this piece and it's turned out great. #NewScientist

This session is going to be really important and the session organisers a wonderful human beings - if you are thinking about submitting a paper go for it!

Listening to Elbow rehearse loudly, while the delegates of an English conference causally chat Derrida in the corridor was not on my bingo card for today, nor is it particularly conducive to getting any writing done….

The passage tomb of Newgrange, Ireland, before, during, and after excavation #TombTuesday Recent genomic analysis of a skull fragment here revealed a rare case of incest, but is this enough evidence to support theories of a #Neolithic Irish 'king'? Find out 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Very cool indeed! Well done Mel and Adam! www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/w...

The Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at Freie Universität Berlin figures prominently in a new poster exhibition that will be launched today: www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...

Thank you to the students moving out who dumped this right outside our garden yesterday. It already stinks and is covered in flies. It is so inconsiderate of you.

Small finds from today’s gardening. Lots of shells which surprised me. Any reason why a 1880s terrace miles from the sea would have lots of buried shells?

Loving seeing the artwork people are producing to advertise their TAG York 2025 sessions!

Nottingham have got themselves a real star 💫 we’re sorry to say bye to Clare in York but know there are lots of exciting things to come.

This is an excellent read! Highly recommended.

genuinely deeply excited that our second Irish Neolithic paper has made the cover of Antiquity. this and the CUP article are the product of a genuinely beautiful collaboration - a wonderful personal and intellectual experience the article (OA): www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Currently working on the exhibitors packs for TAG York 2025. Anyone keen to have stand, or usually have a stand, and prepared to chat to us about what you need, etc.?

Me too!

The last one of our keynote speaker line up! So excited for the talks. If you fancy coming along and speaking check out our call for papers: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

I'm very happy to share my new game/publication, co-authored with Digital Archaeology MSc grad McKenna Crowe: "Other Eyes: Choose your own digital archaeology paradata adventure" in @intarcheditor.bsky.social You can read the intro and play the game here: intarch.ac.uk/journal/issu...

Call for papers is OPEN!! For further information check out our website: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

CALL FOR PAPERS! Proud to present our phenomenally creative, challenging, inspiring TAG session-programme! Hauntology, activism, river walks, Gaza, storytelling, development-led archaeology. In short: theory in action! (so submit a paper before August 1) tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Found under the floorboards. Any guesses?

Get ready - the call for papers is coming next week!

Please keep this petition going. End redundancies at Newcastle University chng.it/mKKmgFmQph

Average day in York obvs.

The Wenner Green is considering closing SAPIENS Magazine. This would be a huge loss to Anthropology! Please write the board in support of this dynamic and vital publication! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Calling all community archaeology projects in the UK. The CARD Fund is now in its 10th year and we’re thrilled to have passed the milestone of funding a total of 100 radiocarbon dates so far. But we’re not stopping there - the intake for 2025’s round of funding is currently open!

Any early career researchers out there interested in reviewing a UK Bronze Age archaeology paper (not isotopes). As a journal editor I am always looking for new people to assist with reviews!

Anyone got any experience of posting taxidermy to France from the UK and know about the permits? It’s a grey squirrel, so not a protected species. #taxidermy

Brilliant poem by Michael Rosen on the 'island of strangers'.. BTW I'm a stranger on the 'island of strangers.' I think an island without strangers is dull. In fact, I highly recommend you being a stranger on your own island – deep-seated belongings are not as good as they are thought to be, and a+

For anyone filling out the Have your say survey there is a box to say what you’d like to see more of - perhaps somewhere to call for more archaeology programming (like the great Digging for Britain)?? @royalarchinst.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Thinking of coming to TAG in York? While you wait for the call for papers (we're hoping for these to go live 1st June or thereabout) why not check out our plans for the annual party and the amazing community venue The Crescent: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/events/

Gentle reminder that the Green Party STILL has MORE YES MORE councillors nationwide than Reform Ltd. We must improve the democratic system itself, as well as democratise the media that currently frames debate and platforms in favour of malevolent paymasters and the far right populist they back…🇬🇧

Lions (and Tigers and Bears) Oh My! Congratulations to Malin and team on this fantastic piece of osteological research (Links have images of human remains). dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour... The report on the Driffield Terrace burials via York Osteology: yorkosteoarchaeology.co.uk/Driffield-Te...

Thank you to everyone submitting session ideas! We have a fantastic range of topics and a few more than we were expecting (!), so the call for sessions in now closed. We will now review the sessions and hope to get back to session organisers as soon as possible.

The Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this incredible life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the traditional art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and contrasting it against a dark background.

Huge congratulations to my uncle who, as of 8am this morning Thailand time, has circumnavigated the globe under the power of sail on his 16m long catamaran called Calagorm.

more great coverage of our recent paper reevaluating Neolithic Ireland's society and kinning practices

One more day to go till session proposals close! Thinking of submitting? Time to get your theoretical skates on...

Inequality is not inevitable! Very much enjoyed being a part of this research. Amazing insights from a huge collaborative database of material evidence from across the globe. Stay tuned for more news… www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Lovely chat with Neil here!