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News, events and research from the Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
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Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten? Amarna and the Bioarchaeology of the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean Epidemic
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/mortali...
📸 Anna Stevens
We are looking forward to the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture tomorrow.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We are looking forward to the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture tomorrow.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Prof Zoë Crossland @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
📅 Wednesday 26 November
⏰ 5pm
👉 Please register on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
November 24, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Transition Revisited: Exploring the Culinary Origins of Agriculture in Southwest Asia’ with Amaia Arranz Otaegui from @ehu.eus
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 27 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
Happy Birthday to Dr Rose Solecki who turns 100 today!
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Happy Birthday to Dr Rose Solecki who turns 100 today!
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
In the 1950s, Dr Solecki led excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar in what is now Iraqi Kurdistan.
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📸 John Solecki
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Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
November 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Analysis of Indonesian gut microbiome diversity reveals the interplay of community lifestyle and bacterial physiology in shaping variation
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/first-d...
Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
November 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Join us for ‘Beyond Faith? Biomolecular Insights into Foodways in Multifaith Medieval Mediterranean Societies’ with Michelle Alexander from University of York
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 20 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
The MAEASaM & MAHSA teams announce two new articles:
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
November 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The MAEASaM & MAHSA teams announce two new articles:
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
“The Perils of Endangerment” – exploring threats to Africa’s heritage sites (Lane, Merlo & team)
“#HashtaggingHeritage” – on South Asian heritage and social media (Khan, Sarmah, Vidyarthi, Roberts & Petrie).
Read here 👉 doi.org/10.32028/978...
Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
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Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Are you in Year 11 or 12? Are you interested in studying a humanities subject at university, but not sure which one is right for you?
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Come along to this free event on 9 December to experience taster lectures and hear from staff and students at Cambridge.
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Tasting the Past: Sensory Archaeology and Roman Foodways’ with Erica Rowan from Royal Hollaway, University of London
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 13 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
November 6, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We are delighted that three Cambridge Archaeologists have been awarded @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grants; Prof Enrico Crema as co-PI of FORAGER, and Dr Stefania Merlo and Prof Paul Lane as collaborators of the AFRI-CAN Project.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/two-erc...
📸 Xtra Inc. and Rob Marchant
On 23 and 24 October, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted the conference Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century, organised by Federico Zangani.
📸 Federico Zangani
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📸 Federico Zangani
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November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
On 23 and 24 October, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosted the conference Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century, organised by Federico Zangani.
📸 Federico Zangani
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📸 Federico Zangani
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Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
November 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Meat Consumption and the Shaping of a Romano-British Culture’ with Umberto Albarella from @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
📅 Thursday 6 November 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
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Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
Fenscapes: archaeology, natural heritage and environmental change in the Fens of eastern England in @antiquity.ac.uk
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
📸 Fenscapes Team
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk
✨ We are delighted that Dr Andrew Pottorf has been recognised by the International Association for Assyriology for Outstanding Early Career-Research.
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
✨ We are delighted that Dr Andrew Pottorf has been recognised by the International Association for Assyriology for Outstanding Early Career-Research.
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/andrew-...
Please join us for the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture on 26 November at 5pm.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
October 29, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Please join us for the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture on 26 November at 5pm.
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
This year’s lecture ‘After Landscape’ will be given by Dr Zoë Crossland, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
👉 Please register to join us on Zoom here: bit.ly/McDonaldLecture2025
Join us for ‘Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica’ with Katie Sampeck from the University of Reading
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Join us for ‘Culinary Archaeologies of Chocolate: Holistic Approaches to Food Histories of Mesoamerica’ with Katie Sampeck from the University of Reading
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 30 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
✨ A collaboration between Agnese Benzonelli and Caroline Goodson has culminated in the project "Between Tradition and Innovation (BTI): The Evolution of Glass-Making at King’s College Chapel".
@kingscollege.bsky.social
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@kingscollege.bsky.social
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October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
✨ A collaboration between Agnese Benzonelli and Caroline Goodson has culminated in the project "Between Tradition and Innovation (BTI): The Evolution of Glass-Making at King’s College Chapel".
@kingscollege.bsky.social
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@kingscollege.bsky.social
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We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are delighted to share that Dr John Rowan @jjrowan.bsky.social has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize by the @leverhulme.ac.uk
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
October 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Join us this Thursday for ‘Pots, Bones and Biomolecules: Multiproxy Dietary Reconstructions in the Baltic Region’ with Ester Oras from University of Tartu
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 23 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
Please join us for the upcoming conference ‘Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century’ organised by Dr Federico Zangani.
📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
📅 23 to 24 October 2025
More information and how to register: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/alternative-...
📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
📅 23 to 24 October 2025
More information and how to register: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/alternative-...
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Please join us for the upcoming conference ‘Alternative Geographies for Egyptology in the 21st Century’ organised by Dr Federico Zangani.
📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
📅 23 to 24 October 2025
More information and how to register: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/alternative-...
📍McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
📅 23 to 24 October 2025
More information and how to register: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/alternative-...
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Social Life of Food’ with Tamara L. Bray from Wayne State University
📅 Thursday 16 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 16 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
October 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Join us this Thursday for ‘The Social Life of Food’ with Tamara L. Bray from Wayne State University
📅 Thursday 16 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
📅 Thursday 16 October 2025
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrodseminars2025
Organised by @mirandaevans.bsky.social, Akshyeta Suryanarayan and Alex Weide
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An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
An international team, including our own Finn Stileman, have published a new study in Nature Communications on a monumental rock art tradition in northern Arabia dating between 12,800 and 11,400 years ago.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📸 @finnstileman.bsky.social
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist...
📸 Westend61
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist...
📸 Westend61
October 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist...
📸 Westend61
Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology in Early Holocene Africa in Nature Communications by Rocco Rotunno & Enrico Crema
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/statist...
📸 Westend61
🌱 We had a brilliant time at the ‘Seeds for Tomorrow’ workshop!
Co-hosted by the Crop Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, this gathering brings together researchers and practitioners to tackle the loss of crop diversity.
Co-hosted by the Crop Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, this gathering brings together researchers and practitioners to tackle the loss of crop diversity.
September 12, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🌱 We had a brilliant time at the ‘Seeds for Tomorrow’ workshop!
Co-hosted by the Crop Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, this gathering brings together researchers and practitioners to tackle the loss of crop diversity.
Co-hosted by the Crop Trust and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, this gathering brings together researchers and practitioners to tackle the loss of crop diversity.
We are delighted that 'Secrets of the Neanderthals' has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards!
The Netflix documentary stars Dr Emma Pomeroy and Prof Graeme Barker and was produced by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanida...
The Netflix documentary stars Dr Emma Pomeroy and Prof Graeme Barker and was produced by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanida...
September 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
We are delighted that 'Secrets of the Neanderthals' has been nominated for four Daytime Emmy Awards!
The Netflix documentary stars Dr Emma Pomeroy and Prof Graeme Barker and was produced by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanida...
The Netflix documentary stars Dr Emma Pomeroy and Prof Graeme Barker and was produced by BBC Studios Science Unit.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/shanida...