We love these replica Must Farm pots being made at our YEAR Centre for a Master's project 😍 @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

Tabea Koch, a former @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD student, now a postdoc at the British Museum, gave a @cama-york.bsky.social talk entitled "Divine creatures: New molecular research on Egyptian animal mummies at the British Museum". With a title like that, it was no wonder we had a full house!

Our Experimental Archaeology Masters students have been exploring the use of ceramic hotplates to produce simple flatbreads - working through the entire process, from making and firing the hotplate, grinding the seeds, baking the bread. @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

New paper out by members of @cama-york.bsky.social 🎉 "Ancient DNA and biomarkers from artefacts: insights into technology and cultural practices in Neolithic Europe" doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Today is the deadline for bursary applications! Click the link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We had an excellent research forum talk by guest speaker Gregor Bader from the University of Tübingen titled: "Reconstructing hunter-gatherer behavior during the Middle and Late Stone Age in southernmost Africa". Wonderful to see results from the recent fieldwork campaigns.

We were delighted to have a visit this week from a former Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology Masters student, Frankie Wong, who is now working on the 'Power Hall' at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester. Frankie graduated from the programme in 2022.

York Experimental Archaeology Research (YEAR) Centre and @cama-york.bsky.social postdoc, Patrick Nørskov Pedersen (funded by the Danish DFF scheme) presented at our Research Forum on Orcadian Neolithic axes, including the @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social axe assemblage.

A study led by @cama-york.bsky.social has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men Open access paper in @plosone.org doi.org/10.1371/jour... 🔓 📄

What are lithic ontologies? Delighted to share a new paper just out in World Archaeology by @cama-york.bsky.social Director Aimée Little, Astrid Nyland and Chantal Conneller. This caps the special issue on, you guessed it, Lithic Ontologies! doi.org/10.1080/0043...

Very happy to say that Aimée Little and Andy Needham from @cama-york.bsky.social group and collaborators have a new paper out on the production of animal teeth pendants - exploring the question of how the teeth were extracted from mandibles: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The BBC has done a short piece on our teeth pendant research 🤩 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are delighted that this major piece of research is out and now gaining a lot of media interest!

Prehistoric people used a culinary method similar to slow cooking to carefully extract animal teeth for use in decorative crafts, according to a study by archaeologists at @cama-york.bsky.social and University of Helsinki 🦷 ⛏️ #Openaccess paper in Archaeol Anthropol Sci: doi.org/10.1007/s125... 🔓 📃

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

Thank you to all who came to the CAMA opening on Friday. An especially big thank you to our guest speaker, Prof Annelou van Gijn, who gave a truly brilliant talk full of thought proving artefact biography stories from across her distinguished career. @cama-york.bsky.social is now officially open🎉🍾🥂

Looking forward to our official opening this week! We are delighted to have a guest lecture by Prof Annelou van Gijn and Prof Mark Edmonds as discussant. If you haven't got your ticket already, you can do so here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

We are delighted to announce the official opening of @cama-york.bsky.social !! This is combined with our Royal Society of Antiquaries Summer Lecture "Studying object biographies, telling stories of the past" by Prof. Annelou van Gijn. To book a ticket, see the link in the comments.

Excellent lunchtime CAMA talk by Reb Ellis-Haken today. Reb showcased her recent photographic work, results from the on-going Leverhulme Trust funded ‘Cults of the Head?’ project and earlier work on Britain’s most figuratively decorated vessel from the late Iron Age: the Marlborough Bucket.

Really happy to hear her making the argument for skilled photography in archaeology again, after so much photogrammetry and phone photos.

New paper out by @cama-york.bsky.social director Aimée Little and Norwegian-based colleagues 🎉🎉🎉🇧🇻 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Another brilliant @cama-york.bsky.social lunchtime talk today! Gustav Hejlesen Solberg, a visiting PhD Fellow from the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, gave an excellent talk titled: "Vikings, weapons and violence". So many questions we ran over time...

ISHGR regret that we have been forced to cancel CHAGS14, which was to have been held June 2026 in University of Nevada, Reno, USA. This decision reflects our concern about the current political situation in America and the uncertainties and risks for those travelling there. 1/2

I was asked to appear on BBC Uncanny to say something about Roman ghosts in York! It was fun, though they cut all critical and nuanced comments on ghost stories and archaeology. Reduced to 10 sec. 'here is an archaeologist who points out a Roman road, so the story must be true'😂 lesson learnt.

Visiting MCSA Fellow, Symon Radchenko - a scholar from ukraine, now based @unistavanger.bsky.social - gave a fantastic talk as part of the @cama-york.bsky.social lunchtime series: Thousand scratches of prehistoric art in 3D: a closer look A big thank you to Symon and everyone who came! 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇧🇻

A massive thanks to @thesherdnerd.bsky.social who was the first @cama-york.bsky.social Research Forum speakers. Clare gave us an incredible talk on: Stylish Choices: Pottery Crafting, Use, and Identity in the Early Neolithic. @Department of Archaeology, U. of York

This Saturday, 22 March 2025 is World Pigment Day! Founded by myself and Jo Volley @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social we are now 7 years old. Follow us on instagram #worldpigmentday

🎉CAMA publication news: Congrats to Andy Needham and Steph Piper for their chapter (Ch 12: Shale Personal Ornaments from the Mesolithic Site of Star Carr (UK); Experimental Microwear and Biographical Approaches) in 'Learning Archaeology: A Problem-Based Approach" Patton Macdonald, Chazan (eds).

Working with pottery? Then this is for you. Abstract deadline coming up 16 March emac2025bilbao.com?fbclid=IwY2x... #archaeology 🧪🏺

FIT-CHECK... Wearing this seasons style in lab chic as I drill pots for lipid analysis. The drilled powder is collected to extract any preserved lipids. This then tells us what these 7500-8000 year old pots were used for #archaeology 🏺🧪

The first paper from our Craftwell Project is out! "Craftwell: A feasibility and acceptability study of outdoor heritage crafting for wellbeing and mental health" This is a collaboration between Archaeology/YEAR Centre staff and our colleagues in Health Sciences www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... The significant find included 450 pieces, some with unique carvings and braided rope which suggests the ocean-voyaging waka could be very old. The specific origin and age remain a mystery, with local iwi and Moriori offering different theories on its history.

🎉Two new Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe chapters co-authoured by CAMA group lead, Aimée Little: ‘Birch, pine, and other adhesive technologies’ & ‘Identity, gender, and power: Life histories of personal ornaments, stone tools, and other artefacts’ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

🎉🎉Congratulations to MCSA Fellow Symon Radchenko on his new paper" Are We Metamodern? The Structure of Today’s Archaeology from the Perspective of Cultural Studies". We are delighted to have Symon working with us at CAMA, on his secondment from @unistavanger.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0029...

🎉 Current Archaeology has written an article about CAMA PhD student Tabea Koch's collaborative work on adhesives from Iron Age collections. including the Battersea Shield, with Rebecca Stacy and colleagues at the British Museum. the-past.com/news/a-stick...

Researching the Neolithic? Join us in Belgrade 👇 #archaeology #Neolithic #Prehistory 🏺🧪 www.e-a-a.org/EAA2025/Prog...

CAMA Director, Aimée Little, has been up in Orkney looking at Orcadian Neolithic axes with DFF Fellow Patrick Nørskov Pedersen & Mark Edmonds @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social. Lots of fruitful discussions re. future directions. We're looking forward to Patrick joining CAMA @cama-york.bsky.social in York!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #archaeology 🏺

🎉 🎉Another great materials paper from the CAMA (@cama-york.bsky.social) team, this one from Professor Stephanie Wynne Jones, is about taxonomies and uses theories of ontology to construct typologies of beads from east Africa seventh-fifteenth centuries AD. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Nice way to end the week - @cama-york.bsky.social CAMA Director, Aimée Little, has just published a paper "Sentient beings? Rethinking the meaning of stone in mesolithic burials and beyond". Check it out here👇 @worldarchaeology.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you studying technological complexity in #archaeology? If so, here is an open call for a Special Issue on 'Technological Complexity & Archaeological Interpretation in the Deep Past' which I am co-editing in JAMT! More information here or contact me! link.springer.com/collections/... - Pls share!

Great day spent with Mark Edmonds and Patrick Nørskov Pedersen looking and and talking about all things Neolithic and axe-y! This one from the ness of Brodgar is a real beauty 🤩 @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social @cama-york.bsky.social

🏺 Gorgeous, and with the tantalising possibility it was carefully kept over 100s of yrs before joining the otherwise quite plain burial of a young woman. Rather than medicine, perhaps the pig fat residue might be tallow, making the cup a lamp; and the lack of rich grave goods a mark of piety?

Sending up The Batsign. I'm looking at an enigmatic red deer antler artefact from an Early Neo context in England. Broken off at upper beam and then they've used groove and splinter to make a circular arrangement of weird ?needles? with interior wear. Anyone seen similar (other than Runnymede)?

Catching up on #DiggingForBritain and very much enjoyed the beautiful lithics from the reef survey led by @mattpope.bsky.social near Jersey, as well as seeing lovely Olga Finch, museum curator! 🏺

10th Bone Diagenesis Meeting, to be held in Athens, Greece 🇬🇷, on 24–26 September 2025 American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) bd-2025.com Abstract submission is now open! more information here: bd-2025.com/abstracts

🧪Reassessing Proto/Early Aurignacian beads from Isturitz Northern Pyrenees, amber, stone, bone, teeth, and shells on the menu @umr5608traces.bsky.social TRANSPYR @cnrsecologie.bsky.social @cnrsaquitaine.bsky.social also funded by @nouvelleaquitaine.bsky.social THREADS @univbordeaux.bsky.social

Our new @cama-york.bsky.social postdoc, Dr Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, has started his Danish DFF-funded project on Orcadian stone axes. Terrible view from the Orkney office.

Late Iron Age decorated plaques, with magical swirling triskele-style designs, pulled from beneath a rock on the slopes of Cader Idris mountain by picnickers in 1963 as part of the Talyllyn hoard #FindsFriday Now on display in Amgueddfa Cymru, St Fagans Lesson: always keep looking! 🧐 📷 My own