We love these replica Must Farm pots being made at our YEAR Centre for a Master's project 😍 @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

Tabea Koch, a former @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD student, now a postdoc at the British Museum, gave a @cama-york.bsky.social talk entitled "Divine creatures: New molecular research on Egyptian animal mummies at the British Museum". With a title like that, it was no wonder we had a full house!

Our Experimental Archaeology Masters students have been exploring the use of ceramic hotplates to produce simple flatbreads - working through the entire process, from making and firing the hotplate, grinding the seeds, baking the bread. @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social

We had an excellent research forum talk by guest speaker Gregor Bader from the University of Tübingen titled:
"Reconstructing hunter-gatherer behavior during the Middle and Late Stone Age in southernmost Africa". Wonderful to see results from the recent fieldwork campaigns.

We were delighted to have a visit this week from a former Material Culture and Experimental Archaeology Masters student, Frankie Wong, who is now working on the 'Power Hall' at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester. Frankie graduated from the programme in 2022.

York Experimental Archaeology Research (YEAR) Centre and @cama-york.bsky.social postdoc, Patrick Nørskov Pedersen (funded by the Danish DFF scheme) presented at our Research Forum on Orcadian Neolithic axes, including the @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social axe assemblage.

Thank you to all who came to the CAMA opening on Friday. An especially big thank you to our guest speaker, Prof Annelou van Gijn, who gave a truly brilliant talk full of thought proving artefact biography stories from across her distinguished career. @cama-york.bsky.social is now officially open🎉🍾🥂

We are delighted to announce the official opening of @cama-york.bsky.social !! This is combined with our Royal Society of Antiquaries Summer Lecture "Studying object biographies, telling stories of the past" by Prof. Annelou van Gijn. To book a ticket, see the link in the comments.

Excellent lunchtime CAMA talk by Reb Ellis-Haken today. Reb showcased her recent photographic work, results from the on-going Leverhulme Trust funded ‘Cults of the Head?’ project and earlier work on Britain’s most figuratively decorated vessel from the late Iron Age: the Marlborough Bucket.

Another brilliant @cama-york.bsky.social lunchtime talk today!
Gustav Hejlesen Solberg, a visiting PhD Fellow from the University of Copenhagen and the National Museum of Denmark, gave an excellent talk titled: "Vikings, weapons and violence". So many questions we ran over time...

Visiting MCSA Fellow, Symon Radchenko - a scholar from ukraine, now based @unistavanger.bsky.social - gave a fantastic talk as part of the @cama-york.bsky.social lunchtime series:

Thousand scratches of prehistoric art in 3D: a closer look

A big thank you to Symon and everyone who came!
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A massive thanks to @thesherdnerd.bsky.social who was the first @cama-york.bsky.social Research Forum speakers. Clare gave us an incredible talk on:

Stylish Choices: Pottery Crafting, Use, and Identity in the Early Neolithic.

@Department of Archaeology, U. of York

CAMA Director, Aimée Little, has been up in Orkney looking at Orcadian Neolithic axes with DFF Fellow Patrick Nørskov Pedersen & Mark Edmonds @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social. Lots of fruitful discussions re. future directions. We're looking forward to Patrick joining CAMA @cama-york.bsky.social in York!

Great day spent with Mark Edmonds and Patrick Nørskov Pedersen looking and and talking about all things Neolithic and axe-y! This one from the ness of Brodgar is a real beauty 🤩 @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social @cama-york.bsky.social

Our new @cama-york.bsky.social postdoc, Dr Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, has started his Danish DFF-funded project on Orcadian stone axes. Terrible view from the Orkney office.