UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.
Regional Manager
Pre-Construct Archaeology
Salary: £50,000-£60,000
Date: April 6, 2026
Location: Winchester
www.bajr.org/job-ad/regio...
In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
A long, narrow storage aisle lined with tall metal shelving units full of boxes.
@naomisykes.bsky.social’s fellowship @exeter.ac.uk will provide much-needed evidence to demonstrate the significance of archaeological archives for nature renewal, food security and planetary health.
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Painting of four men, two carrying a wooden trunk, approaching a Roman palace with marble columns and red tile roof and welcoming party
One of the earliest recreations of Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social 🤩
Created by the talented Michael Leonard (1933-2023)
Featuring a merchant approaching with servants and a trunk of samples from the Mediterranean, the painting appeared in a 1968 edition of the Sunday Times
#RomanSiteSaturday
Dave Rudling built Fishbourne Palace
King Togidubnus supports Crystal Palace
Or is that the other way round? 🤔
Applications welcome to be a PhD-student in my ancient DNA research programme at @crick.ac.uk:
🏰 Ancient human history in Europe and beyond.
⚕️ Statistical genetics to understand human biology with ancient genomes.
🦠 Pathogen genomics of past infections.
Apply at www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢
We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline.
Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city
Details here:
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
Photo showing a wooden bowl in wooden surface. The bowl contains 7 different short blade knives, all hafted using different materials.
My extremely talented husband's first batch of knives to sell 🔪 ...
Get in touch for details inc sheath options: cefn_digoll_crafts on Insta
www.instagram.com/p/DUfpBDCDHO...
#artisan #craft
Two students and Naomi smile for the camera while holding up tile fragments.
Students and a lecturer (Sue) talking about tiles
Close-up view of Roman tile fragments
A group of students, all smiling, post while looking at tiles. In front of them are some callipers.
This time last week we held a CBM (Ceramic Building Material) workshop, training keen students how to identify and record Roman tiles! This collection is from an important site in the centre of Exeter. They all know their imbrex from their tegula now! Huge thanks to Naomi Payne for leading the day.
Research funding news! Our very own Prof Naomi Sykes will be spending the next three years working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, providing important context on the value of archaeological archives. More details here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
@naomisykes.bsky.social is a friend of the Palace and might well be sharing some amazing new insights into what was going on with our animals 2000 years ago.
Either way - this talk is guaranteed to be a banger. Plus, it looks like it might be FREE!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-ans...
Maybe I rehash my first ever public talk which was exclusively about #curatorRob or rather #Rob as he was known in 1992
Huh, thanks for the heads up - um, better get that in my diary! Have no idea what I’m going to talk about. Should it be Fishbourne and Roman stuff or something else?
Awh, thanks James! It was so fun filming that Bayeux Tapestry show! That reminds me, my Dept has the footage from quite a few scenes that never made the final cut - one on horses and another on Norman hunting and Forest Law. Must dig them out and make them available somewhere…
This is the grant application that I spent most of last summer working on! Yes, I know - Romans! - but a great opportunity for us to work with local partners and rescue this important site.
Black background with gold swirls. Twenty-seven fellowships awarded to researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news.
From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...
Are you in Year 10-12? Interested in history?
We’re offering two students the chance to spend a week away from the classroom (29 June - 3 July) helping catalogue objects, curate displays + write blogs for our popular newsletter.
Apply by 20 January: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/library-and-...
Come work with us! 🧬 We're hiring a part-time Biomolecular Lab Tech @cam-archaeology.bsky.social .Join our team in the Henry Wellcome Building working on DNA & proteins.
Apply by Feb 2: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...
#ScienceJobs #Cambridge #Archaeology #STEM
Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research?
Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections.
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...
Thrilled to have been part of this Digging for Britain series, led by a great team. Met fun colleagues, chatted about their cool research, over-enthused at the cameras and did my first ever voice over work (talking slowly is hard!) Tune in tonight, and over the next few weeks, on BBC2 and iplayer!
It's a model of a classical Roman building (Fishbourne Roman Palace, unsurprisingly). The image makes it look like a view from real life with trees and landscape in the background.
We may regret it, but we're allowing #CuratorRob out in public. We've hosed him down and locked his cider shed, so it'll be fine, right?🙏😬
For ONE NIGHT ONLY (15 Jan, 8pm) he's giving an online talk about the recent discoveries at Palace. Huxley may feature.
£5 plus booking fee. bit.ly/flaevents
Join our PGTs for their annual conference!
📢 Researching the past
📅 Thursday 11 December 9.30-4.30
📍 Talks in Streatham Court LTC and posters displayed in Marchant Syndicate Room A in Building One
Do come along to support our students and socialise ❤️
Current Archaeology Awards, Nomainated 2026 Book of the Year: Medieval Warhorse: Equestrian Landscapes, Material Culture, and Zooarchaeology in Britain, AD 800-1550
Great news! Our AHRC-funded Warhorse book has been nominated as Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards. Prof Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' project is also up for Project of the Year! Voting is open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote
A pile of discoloured tape strips on the right, next to a piece of paper on the left with an orange residue stain.
A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it!
As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain.
Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻
🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...
From artefacts and materials class, Exeter University Archaeology, sending kind regards for the weekend
What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs?
Can I interest you in some cats?
Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia?
As you wish!
Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Cell Genomics
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A shorthair domestic cat gazes upward.
The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat.
Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S
Classroom full of students listening to Alex talk. He is pointing at a slide with various images.
There was a great turnout yesterday to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. This was part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all welcome!
