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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Sign up:
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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!
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 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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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 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...
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:
forms.gle/77gL4FqfvK2V...
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:
forms.gle/77gL4FqfvK2V...
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"
Sign up to receive the zoom link:
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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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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"
Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/KNBsB1SRnj8h...
Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/KNBsB1SRnj8h...
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 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" 🏺
Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...
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...
Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online:
Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
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Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
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October 7, 2024 at 9:25 AM
Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online:
Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
Sign up:
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Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
Sign up:
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Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from @NWOFunding to conduct research on the 3D visualisation the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE).
Welcome to York, Loes!
Welcome to York, Loes!
October 4, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from @NWOFunding to conduct research on the 3D visualisation the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE).
Welcome to York, Loes!
Welcome to York, Loes!
Digital Lunch, Oct 4, 1pm BST, with Stephanie Black, (Durham), on using Instagram & TikTok as an archaeology science communication "influencer" in the time of extensive pseudoarchaeology. 🏺
'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology'
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'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology'
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October 2, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Digital Lunch, Oct 4, 1pm BST, with Stephanie Black, (Durham), on using Instagram & TikTok as an archaeology science communication "influencer" in the time of extensive pseudoarchaeology. 🏺
'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology'
forms.gle/Nf6L9ABvZZW2...
'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology'
forms.gle/Nf6L9ABvZZW2...
We are very excited about our York Digital Lunch lineup for Autumn 2024. All talks are hybrid, on Fridays, at 1pm BST/GMT.
The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺
To sign up, use the following link:
forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...
The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺
To sign up, use the following link:
forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...
September 30, 2024 at 9:06 AM
We are very excited about our York Digital Lunch lineup for Autumn 2024. All talks are hybrid, on Fridays, at 1pm BST/GMT.
The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺
To sign up, use the following link:
forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...
The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺
To sign up, use the following link:
forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...
We were honoured to welcome Dr Daniel Kumah, a Lecturer from the University of Ghana as our Visiting Researcher to the DAH Lab. Dr Kumah participated in last week's Heritage Jam, met with our students, and we discussed future collaboration in support of digital archaeology and heritage in Ghana.
June 18, 2024 at 12:44 PM
We were honoured to welcome Dr Daniel Kumah, a Lecturer from the University of Ghana as our Visiting Researcher to the DAH Lab. Dr Kumah participated in last week's Heritage Jam, met with our students, and we discussed future collaboration in support of digital archaeology and heritage in Ghana.
Headed to #heritagejam2024, a collaborative effort between Harald Fredheim's BOCCAHD network and The Avebury Papers. This year's prompt is:
"Archiving as Direct Action"
"Archiving as Direct Action"
June 10, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Headed to #heritagejam2024, a collaborative effort between Harald Fredheim's BOCCAHD network and The Avebury Papers. This year's prompt is:
"Archiving as Direct Action"
"Archiving as Direct Action"
We are extremely pleased that Dr Guy Schofield, designer of Viking VR and the new interactive Star Carr exhibition at @YorkshireMuseum is joining us in the York Archaeology Department to teach immersive & interactive heritage and archaeology.
See more of Guy's work: guyschofield.com
See more of Guy's work: guyschofield.com
April 19, 2024 at 1:44 PM
We are extremely pleased that Dr Guy Schofield, designer of Viking VR and the new interactive Star Carr exhibition at @YorkshireMuseum is joining us in the York Archaeology Department to teach immersive & interactive heritage and archaeology.
See more of Guy's work: guyschofield.com
See more of Guy's work: guyschofield.com
CONGRATULATIONS to York's Christopher Wakefield for passing his viva with minor corrections last week!
His thesis: Exploring Social Media as Engagement in UK Development-led Archaeology
His thesis: Exploring Social Media as Engagement in UK Development-led Archaeology
February 27, 2024 at 8:33 AM
CONGRATULATIONS to York's Christopher Wakefield for passing his viva with minor corrections last week!
His thesis: Exploring Social Media as Engagement in UK Development-led Archaeology
His thesis: Exploring Social Media as Engagement in UK Development-led Archaeology
CONGRATULATIONS to University of York's Kirsty Ryder who passed her viva with minor corrections.
Her PhD was "Purple, White & Green: The Material Construction of Women’s Suffrage," examining women's liberation through the materiality of direct action.
Her PhD was "Purple, White & Green: The Material Construction of Women’s Suffrage," examining women's liberation through the materiality of direct action.
February 23, 2024 at 10:28 AM
CONGRATULATIONS to University of York's Kirsty Ryder who passed her viva with minor corrections.
Her PhD was "Purple, White & Green: The Material Construction of Women’s Suffrage," examining women's liberation through the materiality of direct action.
Her PhD was "Purple, White & Green: The Material Construction of Women’s Suffrage," examining women's liberation through the materiality of direct action.
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2024 Heritage Jam will be May 12-14 and will focus on the immense digital archive created by The Avebury Papers, with a focus on Bespoke, Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD), a collaborative project between York, Sheffield and Leeds. 🏺
The 2024 Heritage Jam will be May 12-14 and will focus on the immense digital archive created by The Avebury Papers, with a focus on Bespoke, Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD), a collaborative project between York, Sheffield and Leeds. 🏺
February 14, 2024 at 10:14 AM
SAVE THE DATE!
The 2024 Heritage Jam will be May 12-14 and will focus on the immense digital archive created by The Avebury Papers, with a focus on Bespoke, Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD), a collaborative project between York, Sheffield and Leeds. 🏺
The 2024 Heritage Jam will be May 12-14 and will focus on the immense digital archive created by The Avebury Papers, with a focus on Bespoke, Open, Collaborative and Creative Approaches to Heritage Documentation (BOCCAHD), a collaborative project between York, Sheffield and Leeds. 🏺
CONGRATULATIONS to Despoina Sampatakou for her successful viva yesterday. 🏺
Her thesis explored digital storytelling, cryptocolonialism & Mycenae. The title:
DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology: a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach
Her thesis explored digital storytelling, cryptocolonialism & Mycenae. The title:
DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology: a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach
December 12, 2023 at 5:10 AM
CONGRATULATIONS to Despoina Sampatakou for her successful viva yesterday. 🏺
Her thesis explored digital storytelling, cryptocolonialism & Mycenae. The title:
DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology: a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach
Her thesis explored digital storytelling, cryptocolonialism & Mycenae. The title:
DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology: a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach
Digital MSc student McKenna Crowe presented her dissertation, "The Potential Collaborative Video Games for Archaeology and Heritage" at the recent CAA-UK.
McKenna used ethnographic observation at York's archaeology fieldschool to inform her game design. 🏺
McKenna used ethnographic observation at York's archaeology fieldschool to inform her game design. 🏺
November 28, 2023 at 6:32 AM
Digital MSc student McKenna Crowe presented her dissertation, "The Potential Collaborative Video Games for Archaeology and Heritage" at the recent CAA-UK.
McKenna used ethnographic observation at York's archaeology fieldschool to inform her game design. 🏺
McKenna used ethnographic observation at York's archaeology fieldschool to inform her game design. 🏺
Dr Solange Bohling, Digital MSc, presented her work with the Archaeology Data Service, "Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: an exploration of ethics, user preferences and contextualisation in an official digital archive setting" at the recent CAA-UK meeting.
Great job Solange!
Great job Solange!
November 28, 2023 at 6:20 AM
Dr Solange Bohling, Digital MSc, presented her work with the Archaeology Data Service, "Online dissemination of 3D bioarchaeological data: an exploration of ethics, user preferences and contextualisation in an official digital archive setting" at the recent CAA-UK meeting.
Great job Solange!
Great job Solange!