Do you or any of your colleagues (especially those who teach STEM) have an interest in recreating medieval technology?

Inspired by my all-too-brief interactions with the late Dr. Tom Mcleish and @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social I'm looking for friends or collaborators to try a thing!

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!

Kristy-Lee Seaton passed her viva with minor corrections last week. Congratulations Kristy-Lee and supervisors James Taylor, @hollywright.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy and @juliandrichards.bsky.social 💐 🎓

KL's thesis focused on the re-use of archived digital data from @ads-update.bsky.social

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

!@currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Book of the Year Shortlist is out and both @johnschofyork.bsky.social's Wicked Problems for Archaeologists and Life in the Viking Great Army by @danelawdawn.bsky.social and @juliandrichards.bsky.social are on it!

archaeology.co.uk/vote

Earlier this month, @pennybickle.bsky.social took her MA/MSc Funerary Archaeology students to visit the York Cemetery, with the support of Paola Ponce. The field trip was part of the module 'Debates in Funerary Archaeology' and was aimed at exploring memory and commemoration at the York Cemetery.

Congratulations @pennybickle.bsky.social and @hpiezonka.bsky.social! The press release is also available in English here: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Huge @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social presence at @caa-uk.bsky.social! ♥️

Excited for them to show their brilliant work.

Re-opening our sign-ups for the @tag2025york.bsky.social Archaeology as Worldbuilding game-playing session. It's on 15 December from 9-12, so it doesn't conflict with other sessions. Hope to see you there:

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In case you missed it!

@johnschofyork.bsky.social and colleagues have a new piece out in The Conversation about this article theconversation.com/plastic-wast...

If you find it interesting, you can read more in the original open access article in John's post below

Our very own Prof Maureen Carroll gave a fabulous lecture on the Etruscan Lady in York for the Society of Antiquaries last week. In the lecture, Maureen traces the fascinating history of a single object - what it is, where it came from, how it got to York and more!

www.youtube.com/live/6PqbtQj...

Watching @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social’s Nicky Milner try to convince @gregjenner.bsky.social that the British Mesolithic is interesting and important 😆

One of our fantastic @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD students Elizabeth Hicks is using our new Wolfson-funded laser-aided profiler to quickly and accurately scan and photograph artefacts from the Swahili coast.

What a fantastic day yesterday was! Such a rich set of data and perspectives on kinship. I learnt so much. Huge thanks to everyone who made it happen. Also good showing from @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social with my paper, and Sophie Charleton speaking later on about the curious site of Banbury lane.