2019 news

New crowd-funding campaign launched

Derek Parrott (MA Medieval Archaeology) and Katharine Waring (BA Archaeology) receive prestigious award for their dissertations

Jon Finch and colleagues nominated for the international PROSE Awards

To coincide with the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new exhibit has gone on display at the Stiftung Berliner Mauer on Bernauer Strasse, Berlin.

Funds will be used to purchase a high-spec SEM-EDX microscope for the PalaeoHub

American and British veterans work together to bring home the remains of US aircrew.

Dissertation title: Magdalenian Minds: An evaluation of the role of cognition in mobiliary art of the Magdalenian

The EU-funded EMOTIVE Project demonstrates its outcomes at a public event at Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum on 30 October

Two of the department's honorary fellows edit a new book detailing the discovery and analysis of the hoard

Giles also gave an inaugural lecture: Public buildings, shaping urban landscapes

Dr Penny Bickle has published a new article on Neolithic gender in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Dr Jessica Hendy is one of 30 UK researchers to be awarded the prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize

Amsterdam conference was organised by the Dutch Castles Foundation, the University of Groningen, and ENCOUNTER (European Country House and Estate Research) network

Joseph Empsall and Paul Docherty join Archaeology to conduct research in conjunction with major, AHRC-funded Immersive Stories initiative

Dr Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez publishes in edited volume Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships

Steve Roskams discusses the significance of water in the Roman world

York is key partner in development of award winning digital archaeology app

The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide ranks York among the country's leading archaeology departments.

Yuka Shichiza received a BABAO prize for the best student podium presentation and Amelia Hall and Alessandro Dell'Anno presented posters

Jess Cousen, Giselle Rainsford-Betts and Molly Hardman recognised for their excellent research

The Award was received for the paper "Lost in transition: tracing cultural traditions at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition in northwestern Europe"

Head of Department Nicky Milner is nominated for the prestigious award

Researchers have found the earliest direct evidence of milk consumption anywhere in the world in the teeth of prehistoric British farmers.

Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York Museums Trust, York Explore and Archaeology's Colleen Morgan created the exhibition

Well done for all of your hard work.

Archaeology Undergraduate Student Amy talks about her A level results day experiences

A masters student from the Department has found himself at the centre of an extraordinary archaeological discovery.

Professor Milner is among 76 distinguished scholars to be elected to the prestigious fellowship in recognition of her work in the field of Archaeology.

Survival expert and TV presenter, Ray Mears, will officially open the University of York’s YEAR Centre – an outdoor laboratory designed to allow researchers and students to recreate techniques and cultural practices of the ancient past.

The British Ambassador to Italy Praises Professor Martin Carver and the University of York for support of the Palermo Queen’s Birthday Party

They were once considered our inferior, brutish relatives, but now researchers are using the story behind early humans to help teenagers understand their emotions.

We’re delighted to have some of the happiest archaeology students in the UK.

Andy Needham has been awarded a prestigious three-year British Academy Research Fellowship.

Lab supports departmental specialisation in digital techniques

York PhD student presented her research on material and gendered experiences of the female reformers in 1819

Americans working on submerged landscapes and underwater archaeology convened a two day meeting of presentations and discussions at the Smithsonian Museum.

Rowan Patel publishes "The Lane End Plateway: An Early Railway in the Staffordshire Potteries"

A new paper written by academics in Archaeology has been published in the journal Heritage Science.

A grape variety, still used in wine production in France today, can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.

Professor John Schofield’s father never spoke about his work. Having signed the Official Secrets Act he couldn’t.

Ellie Lees and Phoebe Ronn win Department of Archaeology employability prize 2019

Archaeology at York in the top ten in the Guardian University Guide.

Scientists have solved the evolutionary puzzle of how sloths went from enormous ground-dwelling giants to the small, famously-laidback tree-climbers of the modern day.

Project SeaChanges will support 15 fully-funded PhD studentships to train researchers in archaeology and marine ecology.

A unique bark shield, thought to have been constructed with wooden laths during the Iron Age, has provided new insight into the construction and design of prehistoric weaponry.

Dr Jonathan Finch has published the book 'Estate Landscapes in Northern Europe' which studies the role of the landed estate as an agent in the shaping of landscapes and societies over the past five centuries.

Professor Dawn Hadley carried out a multidisciplinary investigation of charnel houses

Colleen Morgan publishes new article on posthuman theory in digital archaeology

Dr Paola Ponce finds evidence of dental disease, trauma, joint disease and metabolic disease in human remains at a West Sussex site

York lecturer and two York alumna publish co-authored research on creating rules-based chatbots for heritage sites

A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments.

Staff members Robson, Knight, Milner and Little co-author several new publications

A York researcher analyses coastal archaeology in South American sambaquis

Aimée Little and colleagues describe project on Early Mesolithic human cremation burials

Michelle Alexander and her colleagues publish on the diet and economy of the medieval city of Valencia under Visigothic, Muslim and Christian rule

An online course on Star Carr goes live July 1st

The modern human face is distinctively different to that of our near relatives and now researchers believe its evolution may have been partly driven by our need for good social skills.

Congratulations to Alyssa Loyless who received the award to study peripheral temple sites and cultural features of Sambor Prei Kuk, Cambodia

York lecturer Andre Colonese publishes new research on the making and use of personal ornaments by early anatomically modern humans

John Schofield is giving lectures and conducting research in Australia

New research suggests a population of red squirrels on the Lancashire coast may have developed weaker bites after snacking on peanuts.

Archaeological monograph is available Open Access on the Archaeology Data Service

Andy Langley instructed Key Stage 2 Students in Mesolithic themed hands-on experiments

Jackie Jansen van Doorn speaks about her research on dark heritage on Military Museums podcast

Current Archaeological Information Systems student publishes "Visualizing the York Minster as Papercraft"

York Master's Alumna Emma "Bruni" Boast instrumental in preservation of the practice

The Archaeology Department will attend the SAA conference in April 2019

Newly funded Centre examines how the relationship between humanity and the natural world is changing, and how we might develop and maintain a sustainable Earth

Colleen Morgan and colleagues publish a new book chapter on aural augmented reality

The MoU was signed with the Departments of Archaeology and History

Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the world top 20 and UK top 5.

Harry Robson, Alexandre Lucquin and Oliver Craig reveal publish organic residue analysis of pottery results in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Article in Science is unprecedented study spanning 150 years and thousands of miles, reveals the genetic basis for the animal's fightback against the deadly myxoma virus

The York Experimental Archaeology Research (YEAR) Centre celebrates with a new blog detailing research

Formative Britain is a highly illustrated book that presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD

Groundbreaking researcher in the study of ancient proteins joins BioArCh

Colleen Morgan co-authors a new article in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology

Check out this incredible choose-your-own-adventure video by Amy, a first year Archaeology and Heritage student

The project has received funding for further investigation this summer

Professor Nicky Milner becomes head of the Archaeology Department

Dr Daryl Stump has co-edited a new volume examining how modern environments and landscapes have been shaped by humans

Five individual skeletons have been 'brought to life,' informed by osteological research

Precious blue pigment preserved in the dental plaque of an 11th-century woman has revealed the earliest evidence that medieval women may have been the artists behind some of Europe’s most richly illustrated books.

PhD student Jesse Hennekam wins for his reconstruction of the skull of a giant dormouse

Lecturers Perry and Taylor reflect on the challenges of integrating digital archaeology into mainstream practice

York archaeologist Steve Ashby features in a new archaeological documentary series on Channel 5 this week

York student awarded prestigious scholarship