Lisa-Marie Shillito

Geoarchaeology journal is looking for new Associate Editors. Get in touch if you’re interested and have any questions!

Current round is for projects taking place in 2026 & 2027, so submit an app now if you have something in mind for next year. NEMCAS has XR-CT and pretty much any spectroscopic method you can think of! Our soil thin section lab will be online soon, for my Geoarch colleagues looking for slide prep…

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

RICHeS Access fund is open for applications! Deadline Weds 8 April 2026. Up to £20,000. PhD students, heritage organisations are eligible as well as academics. Get in touch, we have a wide range of analytical capabilities and happy to discuss your ideas! www.riches.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

There's an amazing job up for grabs in Cork, Ireland!!
Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology!
Not only would the post be focussing on Neolithic Ireland and Europe but also have some archaeological theory on the side!!
www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

Vote to make Melsonby Hoard Current Archaeology’s Rescue Project of the Year - Durham University

Cast your vote to make the Melsonby Hoard @currentarchaeology.bsky.social's Rescue Project of the Year 2026!

Unearthed by our archaeologists, the hoard is one of the UK’s largest and most important Iron Age finds 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

@proftommoore.bsky.social

New £2m facility unlocks access to heritage science - Durham University

What I’ve been up to recently…get in touch if you’re interested in accessing the NEMCAS facilities at Durham. XR-CT alongside a wide range of complementary characterisation techniques in the archaeomaterials and OSL labs.

www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Photograph from the bottom up of Durham Cathedral, standing against a blue sky dappled with white clouds. There is bright yellow sunlight illuminating the sky in the lower left of the photo, from the sun that is just hidden by one of the cathedral's walls.

📣 New senior academic job opening 📣

We are looking for an outstanding candidate to join us as Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage!

Learn more and apply: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

📅 Closes 31 Jan 2026, 11:59pm GMT

I’m happy to have supported this excellent study, led by PhD student Jinxu Wu, who worked with me as a visiting researcher last year. This paper is a very impressive amount of work, on some very complex deposits!

New paper!

Cave site formation processes, climate change and hominin activities: A high-resolution microstratigraphic investigation on the terminal Pleistocene deposits at Fodongdi Cave, Yunnan Province, South China
doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK Long-term vegetation recordscan inform woodland creation and mire management. We present two dated pollen recordsfrom Alston Moor, UK, to investigate long-term vegetation change and itsrelationship...

New paper! Thanks to @royalarchinst.bsky.social and Catherine Mackichan Trust for funding this research.

Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK

doi.org/10.1080/1461...

A Day in Archaeology: developing the NEMCAS (North East Material Culture Analytical Suite) research facility at Durham University Learn more about the diverse work we carry out at the CBA.

🔬 Behind the scenes of a research facility for #ADayInArchaeology

Lisa-Marie Shillito shares how they're building NEMCAS, @durham-university.bsky.social 's new high-tech research hub using micro-CT & thin section analysis to reveal what the eye can’t see 👉 shorturl.at/dvub7

#FestivalOfArchaeology

Also apparently giving birth to a fully grown adult…? It just looks really rude to me!

What is research culture, and why does it matter?

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X-rays and Barley Mutants! Blog readers may be familiar with the botanical terms monocots and dicots. Dicots include many woody species, and monocots include important...

X Rays and Barley Mutants!

A brief introduction to a cool biosciences led project I’m working on at the moment, with PI @peteretchells.bsky.social

castlesandcoprolites.blogspot.com/2025/07/x-ra...

Marvellous Middens at the Auckland Palace Excavation I was delighted yesterday and today to attend the excavations at Auckland Palace, a joint project between the Auckland Project , the  Depart...

Marvellous Middens at the Auckland Palace Excavation

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Investigating the construction of a Bronze Age burial mound This post is many years in the making! Back in 2018 I was on an excavation at a site called Cronk Guckley on the Isle of Man with my collea...

Investigating the construction of a Bronze Age burial mound

#geoarchaeology

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Have to admit I haven’t got the hang of this site yet, and feeling the fatigue of too many different social media sites. I’ve mostly been updating LinkedIn, but I’ll start giving this place a try!

I thought I would make a starter pack of scientists working on #phytoliths. Please share if this is of interest to you, and do ask if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/8HEDmb9

Geoarchaeology : earth science and the past : [papers] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive x, 408 p. : 26 cm

“every archaeological problem starts as a problem in geoarchaeology” (Renfrew, 1976)

My favourite quote from one of archaeology’s most influential figures.

RIP Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, 1937-2024.

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Funding boost for heritage science expertise Heritage science experts at Newcastle University have received £1.5M in new funding to unlock the potential of existing heritage collections.

Exciting news! Really happy to be establishing NeMCAS as part of the AHRC’s new RICHeS programme, research infrastructure for heritage science and conservation www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl...

Super excited about our collaboration with @archaeologylisa.bsky.social and Riley Snyder on barley development. Check out Riley's first go at segmenting vascular bundles from an XR-CT scan 😁