DAH Lab
@dah-lab.bsky.social
The Digital Archaeology & Heritage Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.
https://linktr.ee/dahlab
Director: Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social
Co-Director: James Taylor
https://linktr.ee/dahlab
Director: Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social
Co-Director: James Taylor
14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social
Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺
1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:
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Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺
1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:
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November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social
Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺
1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:
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Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺
1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:
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We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.
Sign up:
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Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York!
Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!
maiacost.eu
#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction
Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!
maiacost.eu
#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction
September 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York!
Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!
maiacost.eu
#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction
Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!
maiacost.eu
#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction
The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983 - 1985) is an ArcGIS storymap documenting Peru's Internal Armed Conflict by York Digital MSc graduate Diana Mogrovejo, now a PhD student at Michigan State University:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...
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The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983-1985)
by Diana Mogrovejo
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July 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983 - 1985) is an ArcGIS storymap documenting Peru's Internal Armed Conflict by York Digital MSc graduate Diana Mogrovejo, now a PhD student at Michigan State University:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...
Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!
June 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!
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🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️
No Stone Unturned | Play on gd.games
Play No Stone Unturned on gd.games, a game created with GDevelop, the free and easy game-making app.
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May 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️
We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media:
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May 6, 2025 at 5:44 AM
We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online:
Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"
To get the zoom link, please sign up here:
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Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"
To get the zoom link, please sign up here:
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April 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online:
Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"
To get the zoom link, please sign up here:
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Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"
To get the zoom link, please sign up here:
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FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen:
"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"
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"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"
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Digital Lunches at the University of York
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April 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen:
"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"
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"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"
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FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present:
"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"
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#archaeogaming
"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"
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#archaeogaming
Digital Lunches at the University of York
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March 18, 2025 at 10:56 AM
FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present:
"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"
Sign up for the zoom link:
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#archaeogaming
"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"
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#archaeogaming
FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. 🏺
To get the zoom link, sign up here:
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February 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. 🏺
To get the zoom link, sign up here:
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To get the zoom link, sign up here:
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Thanks Reb!
This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:
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This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
February 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Thanks Reb!
This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT:
Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project
Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺
Zoom link here:
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Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project
Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺
Zoom link here:
forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...
February 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT:
Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project
Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺
Zoom link here:
forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...
Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project
Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺
Zoom link here:
forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...
Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate.
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Beth Jones on LinkedIn: Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to…
Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate a collaborative project between the Museum Of Oxford and Cheney…
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January 28, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺
www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...
www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...
December 10, 2024 at 1:29 PM
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺
www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...
www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...
New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc
Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...
Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...
My First Few Months at the ADS – Archaeology Data Service
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December 9, 2024 at 4:53 PM
New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc
Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...
Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...
🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025:
archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...
His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.
archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...
His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.
Archaeologist of the Year 2025 – Nominees - Current Archaeology
Below are the three individuals nominated for 2025’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field. Voting closes on 10 February and all the wi...
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December 9, 2024 at 4:31 PM
🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025:
archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...
His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.
archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...
His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.
Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Dec 6, 1pm GMT:
Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:
"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"
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Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:
"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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December 3, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Dec 6, 1pm GMT:
Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:
"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:
"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 29, 1pm GMT:
Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:
"Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"
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Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:
"Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"
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November 25, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 29, 1pm GMT:
Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:
"Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"
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Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:
"Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"
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If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures:
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November 22, 2024 at 3:27 PM
If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures:
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The future of archaeological survey!
Love this photo of James Taylor teaching one of our Digital MSc students how to fly a drone on the stray near the University of York. 🏺
November 19, 2024 at 1:04 PM
The future of archaeological survey!
Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 22, 1pm GMT:
Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
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Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
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November 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 22, 1pm GMT:
Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
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Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
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Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology 🏺 PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data:
"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"
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"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"
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November 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology 🏺 PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data:
"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"
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"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"
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Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch!
This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺
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This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺
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Digital Lunches at the University of York
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November 5, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch!
This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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Join us on 25 October for York's Digital Lunch!
This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson:
"The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺
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This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson:
"The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺
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October 21, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Join us on 25 October for York's Digital Lunch!
This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson:
"The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺
Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...
This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson:
"The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺
Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...