BioArCh
@york-bioarch.bsky.social
A centre of excellence in bioarchaeology, specialising in the analysis of human, animal and plant remains and molecular techniques - proteins, lipids, DNA and stable isotopes. Department of Archaeology, University of York
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🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨ONLINE WORKSHOP🚨
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!
We will be hosting a free online workshop “Maximising Data from Palaeolithic Bone" as part of the the COEXIST project on 10th March 2026. Please submit abstract by 23rd January 2026. Further information in the flyer. See you there!
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Come work with us! #PhD studentship with us on deep sea coral biomineralisation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... based @york.ac.uk with Uni of Bristol; part of ACCE+ DLA accedtp.ac.uk Apply by 7th January 2026
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Come work with us! #PhD studentship with us on deep sea coral biomineralisation: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... based @york.ac.uk with Uni of Bristol; part of ACCE+ DLA accedtp.ac.uk Apply by 7th January 2026
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Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career?
Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more.
Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN
#ChemSky
Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more.
Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN
#ChemSky
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Early career researchers or PhD students, could £500 develop your career?
Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more.
Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN
#ChemSky
Our Researcher Development and Travel Grant can help you organise a scientific meeting and more.
Apply by 26 January: https://rsc.li/3YjLkiN
#ChemSky
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And just like that, the winter break is upon us ❄️ Whether you're leaving York or staying on campus, student support continues over the winter break.
We've rounded up everything you need to know about accessing support over the break: https://tinyurl.com/muv6ctk9
We've rounded up everything you need to know about accessing support over the break: https://tinyurl.com/muv6ctk9
December 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
And just like that, the winter break is upon us ❄️ Whether you're leaving York or staying on campus, student support continues over the winter break.
We've rounded up everything you need to know about accessing support over the break: https://tinyurl.com/muv6ctk9
We've rounded up everything you need to know about accessing support over the break: https://tinyurl.com/muv6ctk9
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A quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...
December 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A quick reminder of the Trust's current open funding rounds and schemes opening in January! Read more and apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/schemes-at-a...
An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)
Programme - TAG 2025
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December 15, 2025 at 9:55 AM
An exciting line-up of talks this week at @tag2025york.bsky.social! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/ If you're in York, come along to hear some of our speakers from BioArCh 🧵 (1/6)
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Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC and BBC New Generation Thinkers 2026
This scheme offers five early career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4. They will appear on a number of episodes and shadow the production process to understand ...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Applications open: New Generation Thinkers 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
AHRC is partnering with BBC Radio 4 to offer five early-career researchers the opportunity to work with programme makers, appear on air, and gain first-hand experience of how ideas make it to broadcast.
Apply by Jan 2026
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I realised I hadn't shared this link here, so for those that haven't seen this on the other place, here it is.
I am conducting a survey on public perceptions transgender archaeology for my PhD. The survey takes about 5 mins. Open to all. Thanks in advance ☺️!
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I am conducting a survey on public perceptions transgender archaeology for my PhD. The survey takes about 5 mins. Open to all. Thanks in advance ☺️!
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Perceptions of a Transgender Archaeology: A Questionnaire
A short 10-15 Questionniare on perceptions of a Transgender Archaeology being undertaken for a PhD research project at the University of York on trans inclusion in archaeology.
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November 25, 2024 at 9:45 AM
I realised I hadn't shared this link here, so for those that haven't seen this on the other place, here it is.
I am conducting a survey on public perceptions transgender archaeology for my PhD. The survey takes about 5 mins. Open to all. Thanks in advance ☺️!
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
I am conducting a survey on public perceptions transgender archaeology for my PhD. The survey takes about 5 mins. Open to all. Thanks in advance ☺️!
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
November 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The website for UKAS2026 in Bristol is live! www.ukas2026.co.uk. Save the date - 30th March to 2nd April.
Congratulations to BioArCh director Oliver Craig and the team on the award of their ERC Synergy project FORAGER. The 6-year project explores the demographic growth of human societies in the northern European Holocene with @ercrema.bsky.social, Peter Jordan (Lund) and Anna Marie Prentiss (Montana)
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Congratulations to BioArCh director Oliver Craig and the team on the award of their ERC Synergy project FORAGER. The 6-year project explores the demographic growth of human societies in the northern European Holocene with @ercrema.bsky.social, Peter Jordan (Lund) and Anna Marie Prentiss (Montana)
Thanks to Research England's “Enhancing Research Culture Funding 2023-24” BioArCh has welcomed further visiting researchers this year to our Global South Programme, participating in scientific research in areas including digital heritage, archaeobotany, organic residue analysis and palaeogenomics.
July 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Thanks to Research England's “Enhancing Research Culture Funding 2023-24” BioArCh has welcomed further visiting researchers this year to our Global South Programme, participating in scientific research in areas including digital heritage, archaeobotany, organic residue analysis and palaeogenomics.
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At ISBA11, the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology will be sponsoring two prizes. If you’d like to be considered, fill in this form! forms.gle/aak7VkHK4Bkq...
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
At ISBA11, the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology will be sponsoring two prizes. If you’d like to be considered, fill in this form! forms.gle/aak7VkHK4Bkq...
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology
@isbarchaeology.bsky.social @archaeobiomics.bsky.social
Don't miss Archaeology's Summer Lecture and the CAMA Official opening on Friday 6th June as we welcome guest speaker, Professor Annelou van Gijn. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/studying-o... @cama-york.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Don't miss Archaeology's Summer Lecture and the CAMA Official opening on Friday 6th June as we welcome guest speaker, Professor Annelou van Gijn. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/studying-o... @cama-york.bsky.social
Changes in agriculture and food surplus organization at Gurga Chiya may have helped foster societal complexity, paving the way for urban development, as shown in a new study from Dr Lara Gonzalez Carretero and co. that combines archaeological, architectural and archaeobotanical analysis.
Storage story: Investigating food surplus and agricultural methods in Late Ubaid Gurga Chiya (Iraqi Kurdistan)
The world’s earliest documented transition from village to urban life took place in Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium BCE. In order to recogniz…
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May 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Changes in agriculture and food surplus organization at Gurga Chiya may have helped foster societal complexity, paving the way for urban development, as shown in a new study from Dr Lara Gonzalez Carretero and co. that combines archaeological, architectural and archaeobotanical analysis.
A new methodology to map mitochondrial genetic variation and enrich DNA library content has been developed by a team including BioArCh's Dr Sophy Charlton.
Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals
In the last three decades, DNA sequencing of ancient animal osteological assemblages has become an important tool complementing standard archaeozoological approaches to reconstruct the history of ani...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
A new methodology to map mitochondrial genetic variation and enrich DNA library content has been developed by a team including BioArCh's Dr Sophy Charlton.
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🏺 Do you create or use heritage science data? 🧬
The Heritage Science Data Service is being developed to support everyone to access, use and create new research with heritage science data. Make sure it works for you by responding to our user needs survey here: buff.ly/uEc16e3
The Heritage Science Data Service is being developed to support everyone to access, use and create new research with heritage science data. Make sure it works for you by responding to our user needs survey here: buff.ly/uEc16e3
April 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🏺 Do you create or use heritage science data? 🧬
The Heritage Science Data Service is being developed to support everyone to access, use and create new research with heritage science data. Make sure it works for you by responding to our user needs survey here: buff.ly/uEc16e3
The Heritage Science Data Service is being developed to support everyone to access, use and create new research with heritage science data. Make sure it works for you by responding to our user needs survey here: buff.ly/uEc16e3
Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion - a "hugely exciting" discovery from Prof Tim Thompson, Maynooth University, and York's Malin Holst.
Bites on gladiator bones first evidence of combat with lion
Experts say the discovery provides the first physical evidence of gladiatorial combat with animals.
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April 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Bite marks found on the skeleton of a Roman gladiator are the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion - a "hugely exciting" discovery from Prof Tim Thompson, Maynooth University, and York's Malin Holst.
A new study by Professor Michelle Alexander et al. offers unique insights into infant nutrition practices in Iberia through time in Roman, Medieval Muslim and Christian skeletal assemblages.
Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Peninsula uncovered by Bayesian isotopic approaches - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Child-mother relationships and childhood dietary patterns in the Iberian Peninsula uncovered by Bayesian isotopic approaches
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April 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
A new study by Professor Michelle Alexander et al. offers unique insights into infant nutrition practices in Iberia through time in Roman, Medieval Muslim and Christian skeletal assemblages.
Archaeology Magazine showcases evidence of gathering places for feasts in the Patos Lagoon estuary in southern Brazil over 1,000 years ago, following research carried out by Marjolein Admiraal and co. as part of the TRADITION project.
Digs & Discoveries - Something's Fishy - Archaeology Magazine - May/June 2025
Indigenous people began building earthen mounds more than 4,000 years ago in the Patos Lagoon […]
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April 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Archaeology Magazine showcases evidence of gathering places for feasts in the Patos Lagoon estuary in southern Brazil over 1,000 years ago, following research carried out by Marjolein Admiraal and co. as part of the TRADITION project.
Find out more about BioArCh's exciting RICHeS-funded facilities project 'Biomolecular tools for Archaeological, Conservation and Heritage Science' (BIOARC-HS) @ukri.org
RICHeS visit to the University of York: scaling up excellence – RICHeS
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April 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Find out more about BioArCh's exciting RICHeS-funded facilities project 'Biomolecular tools for Archaeological, Conservation and Heritage Science' (BIOARC-HS) @ukri.org
RESEARCH NEWS! A new study by Professors Maureen Carroll and Michelle Alexander and co. will further our understanding of a mysterious Roman burial practice.
New study to further understanding of mysterious Roman burial practice
A new £1 million project will investigate the mysterious Roman burial practice of pouring liquid gypsum over the clothed bodies of adults and children laid to rest in stone or lead coffins before buri...
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April 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
RESEARCH NEWS! A new study by Professors Maureen Carroll and Michelle Alexander and co. will further our understanding of a mysterious Roman burial practice.
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We are very excited to announce plans for the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Laboratory, which will be a world leading facility where archaeology and heritage is integrated with digital technologies. Read more below.
Plans unveiled for world leading Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab to launch at the University of York
The University is excited to announce plans for the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Laboratory, which will be a world leading facility where archaeology and heritage is integrated with digita...
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April 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
We are very excited to announce plans for the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Laboratory, which will be a world leading facility where archaeology and heritage is integrated with digital technologies. Read more below.
We are delighted that the Department of Archaeology has reconfirmed its place among the world's most highly regarded departments for the study of Archaeology. The department was ranked 5th in the UK and =25th in the world by QS World University Rankings (2025). Well done all! Onward and upward.
April 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
We are delighted that the Department of Archaeology has reconfirmed its place among the world's most highly regarded departments for the study of Archaeology. The department was ranked 5th in the UK and =25th in the world by QS World University Rankings (2025). Well done all! Onward and upward.