2020 news

Article published in Post-Medieval Archaeology

Conservation MA student awarded the prize for his achievements in the Heritage Planning Studio, which works with York Civic Trust

We are excited to announce 15 fully funded PhDs on the chemistry and molecular biology of artefacts

Harry Robson, Alexandre Lucquin, Oliver E. Craig, and an alumnus, Hayley Saul and colleagues publish new article in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

This research will examine lead debris in dental calculus from a medieval mining population

The Dissertation Fieldwork Grant will fund research into ancient microbiomes, urbanisation and diet

Book Launch: Landscape and Settlement in the Vale of York

Dr Aimée Little, from the University of York’s Department of Archaeology, has been shortlisted for the Times Higher Education (THE) Innovative Teacher of the Year award.

SPLASHCOS received an honorary mention in the award of the annual European Archaeological Heritage Prize at the recent meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists.

The results of a major archaeological dig – which included the discovery of a 2,500-year-old brain - on what is now the University of York’s Campus East have been published.

Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the UK top 10.

Best undergraduate and best postgraduate taught dissertations about historic buildings in York will receive generous recognition

Archaeologists from York have contributed to a book which sheds remarkable new light on the political and social significance of Sheffield Castle.

New book chapter from PhD student Al Oswald in Pennine Perspectives. Professional and Community Investigations of Landscape Heritage

A researcher at York, whose work includes studies of the evolution of mammalian skulls, has been awarded a £65,000 grant to study the mechanics of feeding in red and grey squirrels.

"Pathways to past ways: a positive approach to routeways and mobility" published in Antiquity

Medieval Archaeology MA student Harry Platts found the Havering Hoard on his first excavation

Prehistoric people in the British Isles were creating artistic designs on rock as early as 15,000 years ago, a study has discovered.

New book, Migrants in Medieval England, c. 500-c. 1500, demonstrates that movement was a constant influence on the development of the kingdom of England and the concept of Englishness.

Open Access article "The what, how and why of archaeological coprolite analysis" discusses how archaeologists examine palaeofaeces

Penny Bickle, Ian Armit and colleagues argue that understanding past migrations can help us support migrants today and in the future

Kate Morris received funding from BAVS (British Association of Victorian Studies) to carry out research on Victorian mourning jewellery

The ring was found by researchers as part of the Urban Ecology and Transitions in the Zanzibar Archipelago Project

Martin Carver, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Archaeology, has been named as one of 86 new British Academy fellows in recognition of “outstanding contribution to subjects within the humanities and social sciences”.

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

A PhD student has produced the first digital reconstruction of the skull of a gigantic dormouse, which roamed the island of Sicily around two million years ago.

Archaeologists have discovered hundreds of ancient Aboriginal artefacts off the coast of Western Australia.

Dr Louise Cooke publishes multilingual Open Access Book on conservation

York Bioarchaeologists and colleagues examine multiple lines of evidence to reveal de-Neolithisation process

Prehistoric pioneers could have relied on shellfish to sustain them as they followed migratory routes out of Africa during times of drought, a new study suggests.

MA Archaeology of Buildings student receives recognition for her study of country house stables

Penny Bickle and colleagues receive support from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF)

This week the Department confirmed its place among the UK's most highly regarded departments for the subject of archaeology.The Department is ranked 9th in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2021.

The "Stone Dead" project will examine why stone tools were placed with the dead

Don Henson publishes an article in the European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies

In collaboration with industry partner Human VR, York has created a 360 degrees video storytelling experience for Park Hill flats in Sheffield

Senior Lecturer Penny Bickle contributes to new paper arguing for a complex web of gender during the Neolithic.

Scientists have discovered that the house mouse invaded European homes 2,500 years earlier than previously thought.

York students are invited to apply to "Digital Archiving Assistant" and "Zooarchaeological Symphonies" positions

Working in close collaboration with the Department of Archaeology at York, Jersey Heritage creates online historical and archaeological resource

Human self-control evolved in our early ancestors, becoming particularly evident around 500,000 years ago when they developed the skills to make sophisticated tools, a new study suggests.

Abstracts due for symposium on June 30th 2020

Professor Carroll joins York as a Professor of Roman Archaeology

York Undergraduate wins funding for his research project: "Hope found in the Cave: Reconnecting World Cave Art to the 21st Century Digital World"

AEA grant will support her dissertation research on Pike trade in the late medieval Baltic

Congratulations to the Archaeology PhD student winners and other contestants!

A study has tracked the shift from hunter-gatherer lifestyles to early farming that occurred in prehistoric Europe over a period of around 1,500 years.

Hunter-gatherer groups living in the Baltic between seven and six thousand years ago had culturally distinct cuisines, analysis of ancient pottery fragments has revealed.

Andy Langley, Estelle Praet, Joshua De Giorgio and Martina Tenzer receive prestigious funded PhDs

York researchers show changes in self control through time

Penny Bickle compares striking or unusual examples of deposition with routine discard in "Magical, Mundane or Marginal"

Jim Leary co-edited a new volume on Neolithic longhouses that includes a chapter by Penny Bickle

The funding will support the development of a school workshop: Viking Dinners

The Research Project of the Year award was won by ‘Life beside the lake: opening a new window on the Mesolithic at Star Carr’.

The Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the world top 20 and UK top 10.

York PhD Paul Edward Montgomery Ramírez has a chapter in "Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage:Construction, Transformation and Destruction".

The Department of Archaeology's Dr Steve Ashby and Aarhus University's Prof Søren Sindbæk (formerly of this parish) are pleased to announce the publication of their long-awaited edited volume on crafts and communication in viking towns.

Steve Ashby and colleagues ask what hair combs found in a unique pre-Viking burial can tell us about this key moment in the development of northern European society.

Dawn Hadley and Catriona Cooper receive UKRI Enhancing Place-Based Partnerships grant for further work on Sheffield's Park Hill Flats

Launched earlier this week, UK Research and Innovation's latest snapshot of the UK's main supporters of economic growth features the organisation as key existing infrastructure.

York Research Associate Vivien Deacon has a new article in Time and Mind

Academics gathered to launch programme that will provide state-of-the-art training and support to a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in archaeology and marine biology.

Annabell Zander and colleagues have published a chapter "Archaeology across the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in western Germany: Human responses to rapid environmental change" in Volume 3 of the Proceedings of the 2016 Amiens Conference (published by the Société Préhistorique Française).

A new study shows that ancient Siberian hunters created heat resistant pots so that they could cook hot meals - surviving the harshest seasons of the ice age by extracting nutritious bone grease and marrow from meat.

Paola Ponce and colleagues publish a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Sciences

Some victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption in AD 79 had a slower death than previously believed, new research shows.

The sound of a mummified priest has been heard for the first time in 3,000 years, thanks to ingenious research by a team of academics.

The campaign has raised over £1600 so far for the Feilden Centenary Scholarship

Research undertaken by John Schofield with Penny Spikins and Callum Scott in the University of York's Archaeology Department and Barry Wright from Health Sciences has shown how people with autism form different types of attachment towards buildings and places and create and respond to heritage values in different ways to neurotypical people

Don Henson publishes a new chapter in the book "A necessary fiction: researching the archaeological past through imagined narratives"