School of Archaeology
@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
#Archaeology @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk
All the big ideas in time.
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All the big ideas in time.
Try our 'School on Bluesky' starter pack: go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k - Toot ☥ come in!
End of the day thoughts? Amazing what you find when you follow #archaeology on the socials. So much to unpick here but mostly I'm just sad that these shiny silver crenulations didn't last. They are: A E S T H E T I C. Maybe they went the way of the Aztecs &/or Mongol Empire. Come on, who took 'em?
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
End of the day thoughts? Amazing what you find when you follow #archaeology on the socials. So much to unpick here but mostly I'm just sad that these shiny silver crenulations didn't last. They are: A E S T H E T I C. Maybe they went the way of the Aztecs &/or Mongol Empire. Come on, who took 'em?
This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
November 4, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.
Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...
Policy by @eamena.bsky.social & partners in Jordan & the State of Palestine calls for a uniting of natural & cultural dimensions within 1 system, recognising the interdependence between people & environment & scientific understanding of climate risks. 📸 by H. Abedalhaleem. Read more: bit.ly/4oi8Kk9
October 31, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Policy by @eamena.bsky.social & partners in Jordan & the State of Palestine calls for a uniting of natural & cultural dimensions within 1 system, recognising the interdependence between people & environment & scientific understanding of climate risks. 📸 by H. Abedalhaleem. Read more: bit.ly/4oi8Kk9
A discount code is available for the print version of this incredible book (coming out in print Nov 21st) on Feeding Medieval England. 💰📖🧑🌾🐄
October 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A discount code is available for the print version of this incredible book (coming out in print Nov 21st) on Feeding Medieval England. 💰📖🧑🌾🐄
This should be a fascinating talk about the relationships between people, sled dogs, salmon & the Yukon River. 12pm, 6 Nov at the snazzy new Schwarzman Centre. #BrownUniversity Register on Torch's website. @torchoxford.bsky.social #OxTalks #PublicLecture
October 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
This should be a fascinating talk about the relationships between people, sled dogs, salmon & the Yukon River. 12pm, 6 Nov at the snazzy new Schwarzman Centre. #BrownUniversity Register on Torch's website. @torchoxford.bsky.social #OxTalks #PublicLecture
It’s University Archaeology Day #UAD25 #britishacademy come along, we’re all here till 4pm
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It’s University Archaeology Day #UAD25 #britishacademy come along, we’re all here till 4pm
Not all the #archaeological #fieldwork photos make it into the course brochures but if we ever need 'unofficial' staff profile pics these might do - sponge on a stick anyone? #ironage student support hugs & school mascots #behindthescenes moments we still really enjoy @butserancientfarm.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Not all the #archaeological #fieldwork photos make it into the course brochures but if we ever need 'unofficial' staff profile pics these might do - sponge on a stick anyone? #ironage student support hugs & school mascots #behindthescenes moments we still really enjoy @butserancientfarm.co.uk
National Trust members - there is still time to vote & use the reassuring 'quick vote system' ✅ to ensure management of these monuments, sites & landscapes remains fair and inclusive and not twisted by Tufton Street politics. Do it, then treat yourself to the most delicious scones in the land!
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
National Trust members - there is still time to vote & use the reassuring 'quick vote system' ✅ to ensure management of these monuments, sites & landscapes remains fair and inclusive and not twisted by Tufton Street politics. Do it, then treat yourself to the most delicious scones in the land!
📸 friendly but mildly competitive cordage making @butserancientfarm.co.uk yesterday as tutors
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere
October 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
📸 friendly but mildly competitive cordage making @butserancientfarm.co.uk yesterday as tutors
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere
Join us on Mon 27 Oct for an exciting opportunity to meet reps from archaeology depts & heritage partners from across the UK, & you get to visit the @britishacademy.bsky.social (a first for me too) &&& it's FREE!! #UAD2025 #studyhere #openday #archaeology. Register with the QR code below
October 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Join us on Mon 27 Oct for an exciting opportunity to meet reps from archaeology depts & heritage partners from across the UK, & you get to visit the @britishacademy.bsky.social (a first for me too) &&& it's FREE!! #UAD2025 #studyhere #openday #archaeology. Register with the QR code below
Michael & Ruby's article is titled: Urbanism and Sustainability: Life with Water.
September 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Michael & Ruby's article is titled: Urbanism and Sustainability: Life with Water.
📢Students from Africa - apply by Tues 2 Dec 2025 for these (www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...) projects - and study a fully funded 4-year AfOx Kennedy Trust studentship - building links with scientists across Africa! 🌍🔗🔬
September 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📢Students from Africa - apply by Tues 2 Dec 2025 for these (www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...) projects - and study a fully funded 4-year AfOx Kennedy Trust studentship - building links with scientists across Africa! 🌍🔗🔬
Join our #OCMA team & Franck Goddio for an exploration of Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus and one of its enigmatic sacred sites, the Temple to Poseidon. 5pm, Thurs 25 Sept @hmcoxford.bsky.social ⚓🧜♂️⛵
September 5, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Join our #OCMA team & Franck Goddio for an exploration of Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus and one of its enigmatic sacred sites, the Temple to Poseidon. 5pm, Thurs 25 Sept @hmcoxford.bsky.social ⚓🧜♂️⛵
📢Exciting funded PhD opp - Investigating Early Electrum Coinage with Neutrons & Muons.
- Funding? ✅💰
- Archaeological Science?✅🧪
- Access to collections in the Ashmolean Museum? ✅🏛️
- Get to play with extra cool lab tech? (muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy (μXES) ✅🔬
- Funding? ✅💰
- Archaeological Science?✅🧪
- Access to collections in the Ashmolean Museum? ✅🏛️
- Get to play with extra cool lab tech? (muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy (μXES) ✅🔬
August 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
📢Exciting funded PhD opp - Investigating Early Electrum Coinage with Neutrons & Muons.
- Funding? ✅💰
- Archaeological Science?✅🧪
- Access to collections in the Ashmolean Museum? ✅🏛️
- Get to play with extra cool lab tech? (muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy (μXES) ✅🔬
- Funding? ✅💰
- Archaeological Science?✅🧪
- Access to collections in the Ashmolean Museum? ✅🏛️
- Get to play with extra cool lab tech? (muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy (μXES) ✅🔬
It’s a humid day in #oxford and I find myself daydreaming about the cool, breezy mosaic tiled rooms in the Roman Villa @butserancientfarm.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
It’s a humid day in #oxford and I find myself daydreaming about the cool, breezy mosaic tiled rooms in the Roman Villa @butserancientfarm.co.uk
#ApplyNow for an exciting new role in our friendly admin team. With a broad scope, you will play an active role in supporting your team, students & academic programmes in one of the world’s leading institutions for archaeological research & teaching www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies#collapse5280451
June 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
#ApplyNow for an exciting new role in our friendly admin team. With a broad scope, you will play an active role in supporting your team, students & academic programmes in one of the world’s leading institutions for archaeological research & teaching www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies#collapse5280451
I love this photo by current DPhil in Archaeological Science, Karolina Werens, taken in our lab
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
June 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
I love this photo by current DPhil in Archaeological Science, Karolina Werens, taken in our lab
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social
She's really captured the drama of scientific discovery and exploration #science #womeninstem #lablife
📢VENUE CHANGE - Please note a change of venue for the Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025 which will now be given in the Main Lecture Theatre in Geography & Earth Sciences on South Parks Road. @uoearchhist.bsky.social See you there next Thursday at 5pm.
June 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
📢VENUE CHANGE - Please note a change of venue for the Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025 which will now be given in the Main Lecture Theatre in Geography & Earth Sciences on South Parks Road. @uoearchhist.bsky.social See you there next Thursday at 5pm.
It's giving these vibes for sure
May 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's giving these vibes for sure
May 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Seems legit. #rockpaperscissors #timelines
May 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Seems legit. #rockpaperscissors #timelines
Oh please let there be a quiz! Seen in #TheMetro today - how many 'out of 7' #Neanderthal are you? aDNA Friday fun! www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...
May 2, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Oh please let there be a quiz! Seen in #TheMetro today - how many 'out of 7' #Neanderthal are you? aDNA Friday fun! www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...
Writing into Nature, Prof Peter Mitchell, @sthughscollege.bsky.social joins other scholars suggesting 4 key points in response to Trump's disparaging remarks about #Lesotho, arguing it "offers a case for understanding the agency & resistance of Indigenous populations confronting colonialism". 👏👏👏
April 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Writing into Nature, Prof Peter Mitchell, @sthughscollege.bsky.social joins other scholars suggesting 4 key points in response to Trump's disparaging remarks about #Lesotho, arguing it "offers a case for understanding the agency & resistance of Indigenous populations confronting colonialism". 👏👏👏
Prof Tim Pauketat will give a talk titled: 'A Deep History of Indigenous America, Cultural Astronomy & the Origins of Urbanism'. This is a public lecture at 5pm on Tuesday 6 May at the HB Allen Lecture Theatre at @kebleoxford.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Prof Tim Pauketat will give a talk titled: 'A Deep History of Indigenous America, Cultural Astronomy & the Origins of Urbanism'. This is a public lecture at 5pm on Tuesday 6 May at the HB Allen Lecture Theatre at @kebleoxford.bsky.social