ArchAnthLancashire
@archanthlancashire.bsky.social
Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Lancashire
Our staff an students feature on #DiggingForBritain tonight BBC2 9pm! + iPlayer. Find out more about the work on our new podcast ‘The Archaeology of…’ available on YouTube, Spotify, etc!
youtu.be/Y06aZRS_c58?...
youtu.be/Y06aZRS_c58?...
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Our staff an students feature on #DiggingForBritain tonight BBC2 9pm! + iPlayer. Find out more about the work on our new podcast ‘The Archaeology of…’ available on YouTube, Spotify, etc!
youtu.be/Y06aZRS_c58?...
youtu.be/Y06aZRS_c58?...
Double episode drop tomorrow — and it ain’t just Anglo-Saxons (whoever they are). It’s also The Archaeology of… Drugs!
youtube.com/@lancashirea...
youtube.com/@lancashirea...
January 19, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Double episode drop tomorrow — and it ain’t just Anglo-Saxons (whoever they are). It’s also The Archaeology of… Drugs!
youtube.com/@lancashirea...
youtube.com/@lancashirea...
Woo! Announcing our new podcast: ‘The Archaeology Of… ‘ where we deep dive people’s pet topics.
Kicking off with a double episode drop next week: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and the Archaeology of Drugs.
youtube.com/@unilancashi... or wherever you get your podcasts!
Kicking off with a double episode drop next week: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and the Archaeology of Drugs.
youtube.com/@unilancashi... or wherever you get your podcasts!
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 AM
Woo! Announcing our new podcast: ‘The Archaeology Of… ‘ where we deep dive people’s pet topics.
Kicking off with a double episode drop next week: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and the Archaeology of Drugs.
youtube.com/@unilancashi... or wherever you get your podcasts!
Kicking off with a double episode drop next week: The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries and the Archaeology of Drugs.
youtube.com/@unilancashi... or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Right and also! Free talk tomorrow! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...
Growing Up Human
Join us for this free public talk about growing up human. We'll explore why it takes humans so much longer to grow up compared to our primate relatives.
www.lancashire.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Right and also! Free talk tomorrow! www.lancashire.ac.uk/events/listi...
Ready for a career in ruins??? Come see us and hear about how we fit you for the future, from field work to forensics ;)
October 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Ready for a career in ruins??? Come see us and hear about how we fit you for the future, from field work to forensics ;)
We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire
Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
We’re celebrating, and you’re invited! October 4th we’re hosting a 20th Anniversary party for… ourselves! Free event with talks and lots of alumni, register on the eventbrite and we’ll see you there 🎉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
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If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...
Growing Up Human
This talk will look at the incredible evolutionary story of how humans came to spend quite so much of our time playing around.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you’re in the Preston area and fancy talking palaeo-parenting or primate placenta, well aren’t you in luck ;) come to this totally free talk at the University of Lancashire, kick off at 17:40 on October 8th www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/growing-up...
Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
DNA analysis reveals West African ancestry in early medieval England
An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa
www.newscientist.com
August 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Great write up of research we can finally share: two unrelated individuals with west African ancestry have been identified in early medieval sites excavated by Duncan Sayer and our team www.newscientist.com/article/2492...
It’s NSS day! And we are very pleased with our marks 🥰 1st for positivity, student voice, learning opportunities, assessment feedback, and academic support!!!! Our students are CLEARLY correct in their opinions of our courses ;)
August 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
It’s NSS day! And we are very pleased with our marks 🥰 1st for positivity, student voice, learning opportunities, assessment feedback, and academic support!!!! Our students are CLEARLY correct in their opinions of our courses ;)
Check out this thread by our own Dr. Jen Jones & collaborators who have been exploring cave bear diet, what it might tell us about the extinction of the species, & how we can use this knowledge to support threatened bear species today!
See her article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
See her article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 11, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Check out this thread by our own Dr. Jen Jones & collaborators who have been exploring cave bear diet, what it might tell us about the extinction of the species, & how we can use this knowledge to support threatened bear species today!
See her article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
See her article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Archaeology: actually quite entertaining for the younger set ;)
Happy #PublicationDay to @gregjenner.bsky.social @rikinparekh.bsky.social and… me! This has been the most fun I have ever had writing a book, hands down — exactly the way archaeology ought to be ;) (otherwise I’d get a real job, wouldn’t I) www.walker.co.uk/978152952249...
July 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Archaeology: actually quite entertaining for the younger set ;)
Excellent job to organisers Allie Stewart and Jen Jones on yesterday’s NWDTP funded Science & Sociology of Children and Childhood conference yesterday. Super well done to all the PhD students who presented!
June 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Excellent job to organisers Allie Stewart and Jen Jones on yesterday’s NWDTP funded Science & Sociology of Children and Childhood conference yesterday. Super well done to all the PhD students who presented!
Looking forward to seeing everyone for our special conference on the Science and sociology of childhood on Thursday!
June 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Looking forward to seeing everyone for our special conference on the Science and sociology of childhood on Thursday!
You poke your head up from a nice little test trench and find this… happy #FieldworkFriday from Lowther Castle! 🏺
May 30, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You poke your head up from a nice little test trench and find this… happy #FieldworkFriday from Lowther Castle! 🏺
On the 4th October we will be celebrating 20 years of Archaeology at our University! We'd love to see as many partner organisations, former students and collaborators there as possible there to celebrate with us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Celebrating 20 Years of Archaeology at the University of Central Lancashire
Come celebrate two decades of digging up the past with us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On the 4th October we will be celebrating 20 years of Archaeology at our University! We'd love to see as many partner organisations, former students and collaborators there as possible there to celebrate with us!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...
Featuring our own @brennawalks.bsky.social ;)
Got kids aged 8-12? Get them my new book about the Stone Age! It’s funny, crammed with facts, explains human evolution, and is cowritten by the brilliant archaeologist @brennawalks.bsky.social and illustrated by fab @rikinparekh.bsky.social
PRE-ORDER NOW! Out July 3rd
PRE-ORDER NOW! Out July 3rd
May 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Featuring our own @brennawalks.bsky.social ;)
Bet you don’t think this is very useful right? A bone like this, it probably doesn't even preserve well. And what could we possibly use it for?
Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little.
Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts.
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Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little.
Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts.
1/4
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Bet you don’t think this is very useful right? A bone like this, it probably doesn't even preserve well. And what could we possibly use it for?
Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little.
Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts.
1/4
Wait! Just before you judge it just hear this bone out and stay here for a little.
Please note that these are images of plastic skeleton casts.
1/4
Our Bone Bootcamp lab placement students are hosting a social media takeover! Today they have been learning about the Skull! Stay tuned for some of their content....
May 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our Bone Bootcamp lab placement students are hosting a social media takeover! Today they have been learning about the Skull! Stay tuned for some of their content....
And bringing the #zooarchaeology to #archaeology is PhD student Sarah Ruth Hunt presenting thought-provoking work on ritual animal deposition in some very cool caves for the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference 🦭🦭🦭
May 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
And bringing the #zooarchaeology to #archaeology is PhD student Sarah Ruth Hunt presenting thought-provoking work on ritual animal deposition in some very cool caves for the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference 🦭🦭🦭
Great #bioarchaeology / #archaeology presentation on her research into decapitation using 3d imaging from PhD student Amy Brookes-Cole at the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference
May 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Great #bioarchaeology / #archaeology presentation on her research into decapitation using 3d imaging from PhD student Amy Brookes-Cole at the @uclan.ac.uk Post-Graduate Research Conference
Is this what you want your #archaeology course to look like? Because we’ve got some good news for you… ;) excavations kicking off at Lowther with full complement of BSc Arch and Arch/Anth students!
May 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Is this what you want your #archaeology course to look like? Because we’ve got some good news for you… ;) excavations kicking off at Lowther with full complement of BSc Arch and Arch/Anth students!
And a special thank you to our amazing student volunteers and ambassadors, who spent 3 days covered in paint and clay only to be tragically attacked by the #LancSciFest t-Rex
May 19, 2025 at 10:23 AM
And a special thank you to our amazing student volunteers and ambassadors, who spent 3 days covered in paint and clay only to be tragically attacked by the #LancSciFest t-Rex
Well done all of our #LancSciFest visitors for the ‘Potted prehistory’ workshop! As our students can attest, we’ve got a very hands on approach to the Neolithic here ;)
May 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Well done all of our #LancSciFest visitors for the ‘Potted prehistory’ workshop! As our students can attest, we’ve got a very hands on approach to the Neolithic here ;)
Spot the alumni! @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social on the STF Sports Centre show floor for #LancSciFest #archaeology
May 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Spot the alumni! @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social on the STF Sports Centre show floor for #LancSciFest #archaeology