Join us on 18th March for the next This is Archaeology lecture with Prof. Emily Williams, exploring the remarkable Melsonby Hoards, one of the largest groupings of Iron Age metalwork ever discovered in England.
Free to attend (donations welcome) 👉 tinyurl.com/un9kp8z4
Many place-names are deceptive, so it’s not surprising that many people have assumed that the striking place-name Pity Me can’t really be what it seems. What is it, though?
Today's name story is written by Emeritus Professor Diana Whaley of @newcastleuni.bsky.social.
www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...
A montage of images showing three people smiling at the camera, holding an award, a close up of the award and the Iron Age hoard being excavated from the ground.
Readers of Current Archaeology Magazine have voted to make the Melsonby Hoard Iron Age find its ‘Rescue Project of the Year’.
The hoard was excavated by @arcdurham.bsky.social, including Archaeological Services, with support from The British Museum and Historic England 👉 tinyurl.com/cjfmauj9
The first meeting in Ancient Biomolecules in Latin America is here! 🤩 and it will be held in Peru 🇵🇪 on Nov 2026 . More info 👇
📰 Chemical signatures preserved in human bones show how social inequality in medieval England could be "measured at the dinner table" 🍽️
🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @medievalists.bsky.social
www.medievalists.net/2026/02/medi...
🏺 Brilliant stuff Harry! Genetics of people inhabiting the Lower Rhine-Meuse area through prehistory highlights the variable dynamics and regional diveristy in the interactions between groups carrying disparate ancestries. Lots of complicated stuff to unpack. Rhine-Meuse ancestry associated with...
🚩première conférence de la CRABi (Communauté de Recherche en #Archéologie #Biomoléculaire et #isotopique) à Bordeaux les 12 et 13 novembre prochain.
toutes les informations sur crabi.sciencesconf.org
L'appel à communication est ouvert jusqu'au jeudi 2 avril (23h59 CET).
📢Fellowship alert! We are recruiting 6 ECR Addison Wheeler Fellowships starting 01 Oct 2026 (for 36 months). Any discipline, any nationality. Details at www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/ and durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
The Gefrin Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a landmark volume by Roger Miket entitled "Ad Gefrin: Brian Hope-Taylor and His Quest for the Early Medieval Kingdom of Northumbria." Get your copy at the Ad Gefrin Shop in Wooler! #Yeavering
They do point out that their methods recover damaged aDNA and will probably not pick up currently active bacteria, so we can't really say whether any of the species are active or not.
I finally found time to read this. They don't discuss that their major identifications are soil-dwelling bacteria and not gut bacteria, which represent different hypotheses of the causes of bioerosion. Perhaps soil bacteria are what one would expect under both hypotheses after centuries of burial.
PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...
@ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen
New paper out, mostly the work of my brilliant PhD student Meng Zhang!
Isotopic evidence for changing diet and agriculture in China from the Neolithic to the Early Han period (10-2 ka BP)
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
Changing exploitation of millet & rice, and animal husbandry regimes over 8 millennia.
The #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge is in progress! This is your chance help Free UK #Genealogy deliver its FreePROBATE service – and to have the value of your donation doubled by those (including the Society for #OnePlaceStudies) who have pledged match funding. To find out more and to donate... 👇🏻
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.
✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
My department has an opening for a Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage as part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
A composite image of vegetation change at the Sevilleta LTER site in New Mexico USA, illustrating how grass landscapes on the left of the image are progressively invaded by shrubs, leading to a shrub-dominated landscape on the right. Image by John Wainwright
Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Funded PhD opportunity at Durham University. Bayesian approaches to stratigraphic correlation. With me, @palaeosmith.bsky.social & Kilian Eichenseer. See the Iapetus site for details of eligibility and widening participation scheme. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Now out on Early View: "U/Th Dating of Secondary Carbonate Deposits in Underground Galleries of Fourvière Hill (Lyon, France) Reveals a Water Supply System in Operation From the Roman Period to the Middle Ages" buff.ly/76PpH8q
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Probably posted a preprint version of this before but good to see some formal testing of different hypotheses of descent/residence in prehistoric cemeteries of Europe, rather than just eyeballing the trends.
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.
Our new paper is out: StratoBayes: a Bayesian method for automated stratigraphic correlation and age modelling doi.org/10.5194/gchr... with @palaeosmith.bsky.social Kilian Eichenseer & Matthias Sinnesael
detailed poll results for selecting Radiocarbon 26 Conference host. 58% Tokyo, 28% Cologne, 16% Ottawa, 1% other
The poll for selecting the host city of the Radiocarbon 26 in 2028 is closed.
The winner is Tokyo, receiving 58% of all votes!
Congratulations to Tokyo team!
Thanks to the Cologne and Ottawa teams for their excellent proposals.
Thanks to Kim from @14cjournal.bsky.social for running the poll.
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology
New blog post! We're not dead!
"On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names"
dmnes.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
New paper by Tamsin O’Connell:
This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects.
“The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology”
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
#stableisotopes
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A fine new article by Chris Fowler discussing the complexities of genetic relatedness at Neolithic funerary sites across Europe. Argues the emphasis on patrilineal patterns and fitting established kinship/marriage schemes means subtle complexities are missed.
journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16175
Free UK Genealogy, the charity behind FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN, has started a crowdfunder for a new free probate records website:
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...
