We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc... 📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant

On 23 and 24 October, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted the conference Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century, organised by Federico Zangani. 📸 Federico Zangani 🧵

Congratulations to Dr Tamsin O’Connell on being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. This well-deserved recognition highlights her exceptional contributions to chemistry and her work in bioarchaeology. Read more about Tamsin's research below.👇 www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/trinity...

Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social 📅 Thursday 6 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5T... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap... 📸 Fenscapes Team @cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk

Join the S.A.M.A network for their first event on 4 Nov, online Tracing the Beat: Dabke and conversation Prof Shayna Silverstein, on the histories, politics, and cultural life of dabke, a vibrant line-dance tradition shared across the Levant and Syrian diasporas www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47811

✨ We are delighted that Dr Andrew Pottorf has been recognised by the International Association for Assyriology for Outstanding Early Career-Research. 👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...

Please join us for the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture on 26 November at 5pm. This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025

Join us for ‘Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica’ with Katie Sampeck from the University of Reading 📅 Thursday 30 October 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

What is the 'last great unknown' of Mediterranean prehistory? Cyprian Broodbank explains the colonial underpinnings of our relative ignorance of north-west African prehistory. Read the prize-winning research 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

✨ A collaboration between Agnese Benzonelli and Caroline Goodson has culminated in the project "Between Tradition and Innovation (BTI): The Evolution of Glass-Making at King’s College Chapel".    @kingscollege.bsky.social 🧵

Why is the Maghreb so important to understanding Mediterranean prehistory? Giulio Lucarini explores North Africa's role as a cultural crossroads in the Bronze Age Read the prize-winning research🆓https://buff.ly/9Yui0ok #Archaeology @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org

We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk 👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu 📅 Thursday 23 October 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

It’s #InternationalArchaeologyDay and we’re celebrating #experimentalarchaeology and the wonderful collaborations we have @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @romanpalace.bsky.social

Please join us for the upcoming conference ‘Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century’ organised by Dr Federico Zangani. 📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 📅 23 to 24 October 2025 More information and how to register: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/alternative-...

Join us this Thursday for ‘The Social Life of Food’ with Tamara L. Bray from Wayne State University 📅 Thursday 16 October 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

We will be at #UAD25 on Monday 27 October, so do come along to find out about what it's like to study archaeology at university! 🎟️ Free tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/10-... 💻 Sign up for the live streamed panels: bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist... 📸 Westend61

A new study published in Scientific Reports suggests there was more continuity than change in medieval daily life following the Black Death epidemic. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/more-co... 🧵

Britain’s economy did not collapse when the #Romans left, a new study reveals. Researchers from the Faculty of Classics, @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and @uniofnottingham.bsky.social#Romansdebunk the ‘Dark Ages’ narrative with major metal production evidence 👇 #Archaeology #History

🌱 We had a brilliant time at the ‘Seeds for Tomorrow’ workshop! Co-hosted by the Crop Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, this gathering brings together researchers and practitioners to tackle the loss of crop diversity.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Antiquity Prize! They discovered an unknown Neolithic society in Morocco, revealing the importance of North Africa in the emergence of complex societies in the Mediterranean. Our interview with two of the authors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB5T...

We are delighted to share that Dr Ashleigh Wiseman has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starter Grant for her project STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains. 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/ashleig... #ERCStG

Early humans potentially occupied Britain during an ice age, Cambridge archaeologists suggest 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/early-h... 🧵

We are delighted that 'Secrets of the Neanderthals' has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards! The Netflix documentary stars Dr Emma Pomeroy and Prof Graeme Barker and was produced by BBC Studios Science Unit. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanida...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 ‘Achieving Equality: Why There Was Not as Much Inequality in Prehistoric Europe as We Imagine’ by Prof John Robb in American Antiquity 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/there-w... 📸 M. Winkler

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 In a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Cambridge researchers explore the role of skill for Lower Palaeolithic handaxe manufacture through flint knapping experiments. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.ja... 🧵

📣 Work with us! 📣 The Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Zooarchaeology. 📅 Closing date: 15 September 👉 More info and how to apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

A new episode of the British Food History Podcast is out now: Bronze Age Food & Foodways with Chris Wakefield & Rachel Ballentyne of @cambridgearch.bsky.social & @cam-archaeology.bsky.social Prepare to have your minds blown! Available on all podcast platforms open.spotify.com/episode/3iSi...

New issue of Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol. 35, No. 3 (2025) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org @cam-archaeology.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @rebaysalisbury.bsky.social @felixthehauskat.bsky.social‪ @emmatollefsen.bsky.social

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture in @pnas.org 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/culinar... @ercrema.bsky.social

The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research recently hosted a visit from Anacristina Bayona, Vice-Chancellor for Social Projection at the Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios (UNIMINUTO) in Colombia, to discuss joint initiatives on social inclusivity and widening participation.

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Eighteen million years of diverse enamel proteomes from the East African Rift in @nature.com @jjrowan.bsky.social ‬ 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The 2025 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship call (start date 2026) is now open! 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/jobs/postdoc...

We are delighted that the collaborative, multidisciplinary archaeological fieldwork carried out at Oued Beht, Morocco by Cyprian Broodbank and colleagues has been awarded this year's @antiquity.ac.uk‬ prize! 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/discove...

Congratulations to Cyprian Broodbank et al., winner's of the 2025 Antiquity Prize! 🏺 They discovered a previously unknown Neolithic society in Morocco, revealing the importance of North Africa in the emergence of complex societies in the Mediterranean. #AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵

Find of the day was made by Cambridge undergraduate Ellie Koral, who is digging with me on Dzielna Street in the former Warsaw Ghetto, directed by Michał Grabowski. She found a perfume bottle with perfume still in it! @cam-archaeology.bsky.social

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Amarna as a Global City in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Dr Federico Zangani @federico.zangani 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/amarna-... 📸 Federico Zangani

The Department of Archaeology is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Cameron Petrie as the next Head of Department. Prof Petrie succeeds the outgoing Head of Department, Dr Tamsin O’Connell, as from 1 July 2025. 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-hea...

Cambridge Archaeology graduate Jonathan R. Goodman has published a book: 'Invisible Rivals: How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World'. Available to purchase from Yale University Press: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Dr Dacia Viejo-Rose and PhD student Stanley Onyemechalu have co-authored a chapter in the newly published book ‘The Politics of Post-Conflict Heritage Reconstruction’. You can find the book here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 🧵

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 ‘A multivocal case study of decoloniality in archaeological exploration in Igbo-Ukwu, Nigeria (1938–2024)’ in Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 👉 doi.org/10.1080/0067... 📸 Kingsley Daraojimba

👏 Dr @jasminevieri.bsky.social, Research Associate at the McDonald Institute, has received an Honourable Mention for the 2024 Journal of Archaeological Science (JAS) and Society for Archaeological Sciences (SAS) Emerging Investigator Award. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/jasmine...

Are you considering applying for an Undergraduate degree in Archaeology at Cambridge? Would you like some advice about how to make a competitive application? Join us on Wednesday 18th June at 5pm for a free online webinar! Register here: cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 What Ancient Burials Can Teach Us About Grief: New Study Links Prehistoric Thai Cemetery to Today’s Perinatal Loss Conversations 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/what-an...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Dr Julia Montes-Landa, Prof Marcos Martinón Torres and colleagues propose a new approach to explain technological choices in bronze-making in prehistoric NE Iberia in the Journal of Archaeological Science doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

📺 ‘Britain Under the Nazis: the Forgotten Occupation’ is a 2-part documentary on Channel 4 ft. eye-witness accounts & expert commentary from Catz Fellow @gillycarr.bsky.social‬ (2006) on the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands: www.channel4.com/pro... @cam.ac.uk‬ @cam-archaeology.bsky.social‬