A new study published in Antiquity explores how the use of red ochre in prehistoric burials reveals cultural change and identity in Thailand from the Neolithic to the Iron Age. 👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/ochre-u... 📸 C. F. W. Higham @sarah-paris.bsky.social

A new study by Dr Bolaji Owoseni examines potsherds from herringbone pavements at two medieval northern Yorùbáland sites. Dr Owoseni also ran a two-day community engagement event in Ilorin, Nigeria which successfully brought together over 200 participants. www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/pottery...

✨ We are delighted that Dr Joseph Lewis has been awarded the Journal of Archaeological Science Reproducibility Prize 👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jose...

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Beneath the City: Tarquinia through the lens of geoarchaeology A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences led by Cambridge researchers uncovers how the city of Tarquinia developed over the first milennium BC. 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/beneath...

Humans are in the ‘premier league’ when it comes to monogamy, ranked between meerkats and beavers, according to new @cam-archaeology.bsky.social research 🦫 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 www.cam.ac.uk/stories/mono...

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new study by Dr Mark Dyble published in Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/humans-... 📸 Getty Images

We are delighted to share that Dr Angela Trentacoste has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant for her project FEROCI project - Feeding Roman Italy: Continuities and Innovations in animal production from urbanisation to empire. Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-ange... #ERCCoG

Vote for the project now on the Current Archaeology Awards website: www.archaeology.co.uk/vote Visit the @cam-archaeology.bsky.social website to find out more about the Snettisham Hoards: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/snettis... 3/3

The book explores the mysteries surrounding 1,200+ metal artefacts found at Snettisham, Norfolk. Scientific investigations revealed copper alloy fragments were a rare Iron Age helmet and evidence of repairs to some torcs may indicate they were heirlooms. 2/3 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Congratulations to Jody Joy, our Senior Curator in European Archaeology, and British Museum curator Julia Farley, who co-edited 'The Snettisham Hoards' which has been nominated for the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year Award! 1/3

Join us this Thursday for ‘An Archaeology of Food Security in West Africa’ with Amanda Logan from Northwestern University 📅 Thursday 4 December 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic 👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali... 📸 Anna Stevens

We are looking forward to the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture tomorrow. This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social 📅 Wednesday 26 November ⏰ 5pm 👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025

Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus 📅 Thursday 27 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

Happy Birthday to Dr Rose Solecki who turns 100 today! In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan. 🧵 📸 John Solecki

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...

Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York 📅 Thursday 20 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm bit.ly/garrodseminars2025 Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide

The MAEASaM & MAHSA teams announce two new articles: “The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team) “#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie). Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...

Register for the CAA-UK Conference 2025! 📢 Join us in December for conversations in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Find out more and register to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...

Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you? Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge. www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London 📅 Thursday 13 November 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025

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