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Professor Shadreck Chirikure & Muchen Zhou (current DPhil) with friends at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social have organised this one day workshop on Weds 25 Feb @sthughscollege.bsky.social on #archaeologicalscience and the #African past. @chirikure.bsky.social
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Professor Shadreck Chirikure & Muchen Zhou (current DPhil) with friends at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social have organised this one day workshop on Weds 25 Feb @sthughscollege.bsky.social on #archaeologicalscience and the #African past. @chirikure.bsky.social
Another great Oxford study 🧬shows the people who inhabit 1 of the remotest regions of mainland Greece represent 1 of the most genetically distinctive populations in #Europe, shaped by a millennium of isolation w/. many lineages tracing back to the #BronzeAge, #IronAge, & #Roman period of #Greece.
NEW: Oxford study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, represent one of the most genetically distinctive populations in Europe.
Many lineages can be traced back to the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman period of Greece.
Find out more ⬇️
Many lineages can be traced back to the Bronze Age, Iron Age, and Roman period of Greece.
Find out more ⬇️
New analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique genetic time
A new genetic study has revealed that the people of Deep Mani, who inhabit one of the remotest regions of mainland Greece, represent one of the most genetically distinctive populations in Europe,
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February 17, 2026 at 10:09 AM
Another great Oxford study 🧬shows the people who inhabit 1 of the remotest regions of mainland Greece represent 1 of the most genetically distinctive populations in #Europe, shaped by a millennium of isolation w/. many lineages tracing back to the #BronzeAge, #IronAge, & #Roman period of #Greece.
Our friends in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social analysed a stalagmite to create a precisely dated "rainfall yearbook" which revealed a very large climate & cultural shift 3,950 years ago in the Yangtze Valley. Brilliant work! #China #caves #climatechange #chronologies
Mystery solved: A new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences has identified widespread flooding as the cause of the collapse of an ancient Chinese civilisation.
Find out more ⬇️
Find out more ⬇️
Researchers discover that ancient floods "rewrote" civilizations
A new study involving researchers from Oxford’s Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused the collapse of an Ancient Chinese civilization – finding that widespread
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February 17, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Our friends in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social analysed a stalagmite to create a precisely dated "rainfall yearbook" which revealed a very large climate & cultural shift 3,950 years ago in the Yangtze Valley. Brilliant work! #China #caves #climatechange #chronologies
Calling all University students interested in learning more about #Radiocarbon dating & #Bayesian analysis. There are still free places available on this short course for #NERC & #AHRC students!
New Year's resolution to learn more about 14C? Our short course 16/03-18/03 covers project design to practical OxCal workshops. Registration closes 15/02. NERC/AHRC students come for free - please email. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...
Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis
Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Calling all University students interested in learning more about #Radiocarbon dating & #Bayesian analysis. There are still free places available on this short course for #NERC & #AHRC students!
Special BA Arch & Anth alumna in-conversation event tomorrow 5pm @spcoxford.bsky.social - award winning playwright, El Blackwood discusses 'Theatre as Ethnography - exploring the lives of NHS Nurses'. Find out how anthropological methods have inspired & informed her theatrical career.
February 9, 2026 at 11:06 AM
Special BA Arch & Anth alumna in-conversation event tomorrow 5pm @spcoxford.bsky.social - award winning playwright, El Blackwood discusses 'Theatre as Ethnography - exploring the lives of NHS Nurses'. Find out how anthropological methods have inspired & informed her theatrical career.
Congratulations to friend of the School and our 2025 Meyerstein lecturer - Professor Naomi Sykes - on this prestigious award! Will hope to see you back here so we can hear updates!
Research funding news! Our very own Prof Naomi Sykes will be spending the next three years working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, providing important context on the value of archaeological archives. More details here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
New research fellowship seeking to address the UK’s ‘crisis’ of archaeological curation
A leading authority on the interaction between animals, humans and the environment through history has been awarded a prestigious national fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust, focusing on the crisis ...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Congratulations to friend of the School and our 2025 Meyerstein lecturer - Professor Naomi Sykes - on this prestigious award! Will hope to see you back here so we can hear updates!
Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos
My new paper with @bijanrouhani.bsky.social and @kristen-hopper.bsky.social explores a probable Persian Garden complex identified on a set of 1941 RAF aerial photographs taken over #Tabriz #Iran. This vast complex had not been previously documented and was built over by urban sprawl in the 1990s.
📣 📣 Our new paper on the discovery of a 'lost' Persian Garden in #Tabriz #Iran using aerial photographs taken during the Second World War has just been published #OpenAccess in @antiquity.ac.uk. Read it here👇🏻
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February 3, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos
Prof Hamerow hosted a celebration for the FeedSax project team & their amazing open access outputs inc. their book 'Feeding Medieval England'. The School's Sheaf of Wheat also attended - #archaeobotonists will understand! @erc.europa.eu @archanchistleic.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 11:35 AM
Prof Hamerow hosted a celebration for the FeedSax project team & their amazing open access outputs inc. their book 'Feeding Medieval England'. The School's Sheaf of Wheat also attended - #archaeobotonists will understand! @erc.europa.eu @archanchistleic.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
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Project Managers (Fieldwork) - Oxford and Cambridge
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)
Closing Date: March 1st, 2026
Location: Oxford and Cambridge
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)
Closing Date: March 1st, 2026
Location: Oxford and Cambridge
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
Project Managers (Fieldwork) - Oxford and Cambridge - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)Closing Date: 01/03/26Location: Oxford and Cambridge
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February 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Project Managers (Fieldwork) - Oxford and Cambridge
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)
Closing Date: March 1st, 2026
Location: Oxford and Cambridge
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)
Closing Date: March 1st, 2026
Location: Oxford and Cambridge
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
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Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
February 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
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🪙 A Viking silver hoard puts Yorkshire "at the heart of a much wider, Eurasian Viking economy” says Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social as research reveals Viking trade links reaching deep into the Islamic world.
Full story👇 #SSDConnections
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
Full story👇 #SSDConnections
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Viking silver hoard reveals far-reaching trade links between England
New research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on
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January 30, 2026 at 12:14 PM
🪙 A Viking silver hoard puts Yorkshire "at the heart of a much wider, Eurasian Viking economy” says Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social as research reveals Viking trade links reaching deep into the Islamic world.
Full story👇 #SSDConnections
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
Full story👇 #SSDConnections
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
If you are interested in applying to University anywhere, you need to follow Dr Matt Williams @jesusoxford.bsky.social for interview tips, personal statement advice, study skills and general 'how to think' nuggets of gold! Check him out on YouTube and TikTok! youtu.be/61MXakN87XQ?... 👨🎓📝👩🎓#studyhere
Oxford Study Skills: How to Take Notes
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January 30, 2026 at 1:10 PM
If you are interested in applying to University anywhere, you need to follow Dr Matt Williams @jesusoxford.bsky.social for interview tips, personal statement advice, study skills and general 'how to think' nuggets of gold! Check him out on YouTube and TikTok! youtu.be/61MXakN87XQ?... 👨🎓📝👩🎓#studyhere
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A new paper lead by by Jo Ostapkowicz on some wonderful wood carvings from Brazil @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Jaguars and raptorial birds: The ancient wood carving arts of Northeastern South America (Trombetas River region, Brazil)
This paper presents the results of the first systematic study aimed at defining the chronology, provenience and material components of 14 distinctive …
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January 22, 2026 at 10:25 AM
A new paper lead by by Jo Ostapkowicz on some wonderful wood carvings from Brazil @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In London TODAY at 5pm in person: Senate House, room 264, & online - Dr Amy Styring will talk about changing agricultural practices from the #Neolithic to the #Viking Age & how plant #isotope data transform interpretations of past human #diets.
🔗 Registration link:
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🔗 Registration link:
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Isotopic insights into past cultivation and dietary practices
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January 21, 2026 at 10:50 AM
In London TODAY at 5pm in person: Senate House, room 264, & online - Dr Amy Styring will talk about changing agricultural practices from the #Neolithic to the #Viking Age & how plant #isotope data transform interpretations of past human #diets.
🔗 Registration link:
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🔗 Registration link:
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
An amazing selection of talks & seminars coming up this term. All details available on our website Events page #archaeologicalscience #seminars #world #archaeology #medieval #bioarchaeology #archaeobotany #palaeoclimates #evolution #ancientRome etc. etc. etc.
January 21, 2026 at 9:58 AM
An amazing selection of talks & seminars coming up this term. All details available on our website Events page #archaeologicalscience #seminars #world #archaeology #medieval #bioarchaeology #archaeobotany #palaeoclimates #evolution #ancientRome etc. etc. etc.
📢Job alert! Come & work with us as the Project Administrator for Dr Anke Hein's exciting new project China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China). Deadline for applications: 6 Feb. For full details: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies
Job Vacancies
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January 20, 2026 at 10:15 AM
📢Job alert! Come & work with us as the Project Administrator for Dr Anke Hein's exciting new project China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China). Deadline for applications: 6 Feb. For full details: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies
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Excellent news for the work carried out at Charterhouse Warren - the analysis carried out on the #BronzeAge remains, which has revealed a dark tale of brutality and butchery, has been nominated for @currentarchaeology.bsky.social ‘Research Project of the Year’
Vote here 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote
Vote here 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote
January 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
Excellent news for the work carried out at Charterhouse Warren - the analysis carried out on the #BronzeAge remains, which has revealed a dark tale of brutality and butchery, has been nominated for @currentarchaeology.bsky.social ‘Research Project of the Year’
Vote here 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote
Vote here 🗳️ archaeology.co.uk/vote
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If this isn’t your NY resolution, who are you?
New Year's resolution to learn more about 14C? Our short course 16/03-18/03 covers project design to practical OxCal workshops. Registration closes 15/02. NERC/AHRC students come for free - please email. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/shor...
Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis
Developed by the NERC Radiocarbon Facility, this course is aimed at researchers using radiocarbon and other techniques, including Quaternary geologists, palaeobiologists, archaeologists and marine geo...
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January 9, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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👀📽️ Profs Jeffrey Sachs & Jessica Rawson discuss her book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China, which details the roots of Chinese civilization through the stories of 12 grand tombs, each helping to reveal a pivotal phase in China’s history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MqH... #Bookclub
Conversation with Jessica Rawson, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
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January 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
👀📽️ Profs Jeffrey Sachs & Jessica Rawson discuss her book, Life and Afterlife in Ancient China, which details the roots of Chinese civilization through the stories of 12 grand tombs, each helping to reveal a pivotal phase in China’s history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MqH... #Bookclub
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson's book 'Life and Afterlife in Ancient China' has been translated into Chinese by CITIC Zhongxin. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @bodartlib.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Professor Dame Jessica Rawson's book 'Life and Afterlife in Ancient China' has been translated into Chinese by CITIC Zhongxin. @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social @bodartlib.bsky.social
Congratulations @rschulting.bsky.social your 'darker angels' of British prehistory paper made Antiquity's 20 most read articles of 2025! Everyone can read it this month for free at the link below. #CharterhouseWarren #BronzeAge @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk
Don't forget to explore our collection of 2025's most-read #archaeology, covering great research on diverse topics, from West African ancestry in medieval England to prehistoric Siberian tattoos 🏺
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It's completely FREE for the rest of the month: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Congratulations @rschulting.bsky.social your 'darker angels' of British prehistory paper made Antiquity's 20 most read articles of 2025! Everyone can read it this month for free at the link below. #CharterhouseWarren #BronzeAge @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk
We'll be at the Cherwell School this evening for their #careers event along with our friends @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social. Prof Amy Bogaard will be bringing her microscope & archaeobotanical samples from various archaeological sites so come along to our table and say hi!
January 8, 2026 at 10:24 AM
We'll be at the Cherwell School this evening for their #careers event along with our friends @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social. Prof Amy Bogaard will be bringing her microscope & archaeobotanical samples from various archaeological sites so come along to our table and say hi!
New research reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific 🐖🐽🐷🧬🌴🏝️🗿region. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/geno... @gregerlarson.bsky.social Image credit: A Brumm (Griffith Uni) & A Agus Oktaviana (BRIN, Indonesia).
January 6, 2026 at 11:49 AM
New research reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific 🐖🐽🐷🧬🌴🏝️🗿region. www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/geno... @gregerlarson.bsky.social Image credit: A Brumm (Griffith Uni) & A Agus Oktaviana (BRIN, Indonesia).