2021 news

A project to breathe new life into one of York’s historic streets has been given the go-ahead after receiving funding of almost half a million pounds from the Government’s Community Renewal Fund.

We have a new vacancy for an Associate Lecturer in Digital Archaeology to start in the new year

New interdisciplinary project reveals knowledge production in archaeology

A team from the University of York and the York Archaeological Trust took York care home residents on a trip through time to explore the city’s Roman heritage.

Universities and museums across Yorkshire and the North of England will explore the links between the railways and the global slave trade as part of a new research project.

The York Experimental Archaeological Research (YEAR) Centre is to partner with a new research centre in Australia to foster a wider global understanding of our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

Department of Archaeology is in the UK top 5

Department of Archaeology maintains its place in the UK top 10

The Department of Archaeology has been awarded funding for an innovative international programme of training and research in a rapidly expanding branch of archaeological science.

Autism spectrum conditions are widely characterized as a cognitive difference which affects social understanding and behaviour. However, evidence increasingly suggests that the condition also affects engagement with material aspects of the environment.

Volume edited by Stephanie Wynne-Jones honoured with awardfrom the Society for Africanist Archaeologists The Society forAfricanist Archaeologists this week awarded their 2021 Book Prize(edited volume) to 'The Swahili World', a major synthesis of thearchaeology, anthropology and history of Africa's Indian Ocean coast.

Archaeologists examining the Herculaneum skeletal remains of the victims of Vesuvius say they have helped shed new light on the eating habits of ancient Romans - with food differentiated along gender lines and revealing women ate more animal products and locally grown fruit and vegetables while the men dined on more expensive fish.

The iconic racing circuit comes back to life in digital 3D, thanks to an Archaeology Masters student.

The Department of Archaeology is inviting expressions of interest from eligible early career researchers to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

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

Proteins from frozen canine faeces have been successfully extracted for the first time to reveal more about the diets of Arctic sled dogs.

University of York archaeologists are working with British and US military veterans to recover the remains of a World War II bomber crew.

Holding onto everyday items as keepsakes when a loved one dies was as commonplace in prehistory as it is today, a new study suggests.

A new study has found interesting differences between rural and urban cuisines in Islamic-ruled medieval Sicily

Congratulations to Andrew Hill (BSc Archaeology), who has been awarded the Laidlaw Scholarship for 2021.

Felix Charteris awarded IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Award.

York archaeologists publish new book on the Viking Great Army

Research by post-doctoral research associate Dr Lindsey Büster has been published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Informing our Heritage Future(s): Preserving our Digital Past(s)

Don was a much loved friend and colleague in the Department

Grave goods, such as stone tools, have revealed that Neolithic farmers had different work-related activities for men and women.

Geoff Bailey is corresponding author on two open access articles that have been published by Quaternary Science Reviews on underwater shell middens in Denmark and the Gulf of Mexico in the USA.

Medieval and early modern lawyers chose to write on sheepskin parchment because it helped prevent fraud, new analysis shows.

Archaeologists have a vital role to play in documenting COVID-19 waste but also in informing the policies that may mitigate its longer-term impact, a new study suggests.

Two new osteological reports, positing pathological evidence for Roman period migration, and an Iron Age skull perforated and perhaps mounted for display...

The Department of Archaeology climbs to 12th in the world and maintains its place in the UK top 10.

Wikithon to celebrate the Women in Archaeology, to be held on 11th March 2021. Please come along!

Opportunity to work on a project relating to marine cultural heritage in East Africa, as part of the Rising from the Depths AHRC Network. Closing Date for applications: 31st March 2021

Dr Stephanie Wynne-Jones talks about her excavations at Songo Mnara

Environmental pressures may have led humans to become more tolerant and friendly towards each other as the need to share food and raw materials became mutually beneficial, a new study suggests.

Excited by the new film The Dig? Our own Professor Martin Carver - who ran excavations at the site 50 years later, discusses the real story in a BBC podcast.

Researchers at the University of York have found chemical residues of grapes in medieval containers indicating a prosperous wine trade in Islamic Sicily.

The Department of Archaeology is engaging in a new research collaboration into the pandemic's impact on the heritage sector.

Dr Jessica Hendy publishes important overview of archaeological applications of ancient protein analysis

Annabell Zander's volume, 'From the Early Preboreal to the Subboreal period − Current Mesolithic research in Europe', out now.