The back cover of the Archaeometry Journal, vol 68 (2) April 2026 listing the table of contents.
Click on the link to read Volume 68 (2) of our #Archaeometry Journal. Read it online here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...
Please sign the #petition to save the wonderful Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet, 远东博物馆) which holds - among many other things - material from the earliest scientific archaeological excavations ever to be conducted in #China kampanj.skiftet.org/medelhavsmus...
A purrfectly fangtastic new exhibition opens @bodleian.ox.ac.uk this week w/. expert input from Prof Greger Larson (@gregerlarson.bsky.social): PETS AND THEIR PEOPLE. visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/pets-a... It explores the relationship between humans & their pets – or pets & their humans. 🐾🐕🦺🐈⬛
🚨PDRA job -Come & #research with us on Dr Anke Hein's new project 'China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China)' for a 4 year Postdoctoral Research Associate post. All details and to apply 👇. #ArchaeologyJobs @ox.ac.uk my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
A Workshop in Honour of Andrea Zerbini: Legacy, Archaeology, and Digital Innovation 🌠
CBRL invites you to a two-day hybrid workshop on 30–31 March 2026, taking place in Amman and online.
🏆Congratulations @jk-viking.bsky.social, Associate Professor of #Viking #Archaeology, who has won the 2026 CA Award for Archaeologist of the Year! You can find out more about Jane in her staff spotlight interview 👇 www.arch.ox.ac.uk/staff-spotli...
sharing for our lovely colleagues in The Griffith Institute, give them a follow to learn more - @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
Sharing for our lovely colleagues in The Griffith Institute. Give them a follow - @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
🚨Job alert: A fixed-term lectureship in #Egyptology (2 years) at Oxford, to cover the sabbatical leave of two members of staff, Richard Parkinson (2026-7) and Elizabeth Frood (2027-8); see
www.jobs.ac.uk/.../departme....
or search for 'Departmental Lecturer in Egyptology' on: jobs.ox.ac.uk
The project logo shows a simple map of Africa with crisscrossing lines creating a crazing paving style mosaic within the continent. Some of the shapes in the south are coloured in in red, orange and green.
Photo credit: Dr Alice Williams - a small wooden structure on three legs with straw roof, covering a firepit. there are red and green cloths hanging on a string between two of the structure legs.
Photo credit: Dr Mica Jones. A small stone staircase ascends between two huge rocks. The staircase appears to significantly narrow as it rises so it looks like a squeeze at the top!
One of our newest projects: New Bantu Mosaics, led by @chirikure.bsky.social is up & running now & the photos from the field are glorious! @alicejwilliams.bsky.social
@micabjones.bsky.social Find out more at: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/new-bantu-mo...
A collection of intricately decorated Neolithic ceramic vessels
A collection of intricately decorated Neolithic ceramic vessels
Photo of the archaeological site Majiayao in China.
🪧📣Research with us on this 3 year funded DPhil on Dr Hein's Technological Processes & Social Organization in Early Northern China project. Further details and to apply: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/fund... #graduate #research #China #Neolithic #pottery #Archaeology #scholarship 📷 credit: Dr Hein
Prof @gregerlarson.bsky.social joins 'A Dog's life' podcast to discuss how his work in our ancient DNA lab (PalaeoBARN) helps map our relationships with cats, dogs and other animals 🐕🦺🧬🐈⬛🐾 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
Dr Nancy Highcock (@ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social) is the Field Supervisor for the Türkmen-Karahöyük Archaeological Project (TKAP). Her postcard talks about her #excavation of a large mudbrick 🏠 dating to the 2nd & 1st centuries BCE! #fieldwork Read her ✉️ here: preview.shorthand.com/4lwIX8v1duOO...
Lovely postcard in the School 'posthole' from Professor Amy Bogaard telling us about her recent #fieldwork in #Albania. preview.shorthand.com/4lwIX8v1duOO... And some glorious stratigraphic sections (if you don't mind us saying so!) #archaeobotany #excavation
Professor Shadreck Chirikure & Muchen Zhou (current DPhil) with friends at @cam-archaeology.bsky.social & @uclarchaeology.bsky.social have organised this one day workshop on Weds 25 Feb @sthughscollege.bsky.social on #archaeologicalscience and the #African past. @chirikure.bsky.social
Another great Oxford study 🧬shows the people who inhabit 1 of the remotest regions of mainland Greece represent 1 of the most genetically distinctive populations in #Europe, shaped by a millennium of isolation w/. many lineages tracing back to the #BronzeAge, #IronAge, & #Roman period of #Greece.
Our friends in @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social analysed a stalagmite to create a precisely dated "rainfall yearbook" which revealed a very large climate & cultural shift 3,950 years ago in the Yangtze Valley. Brilliant work! #China #caves #climatechange #chronologies
#FishPrawn Palace wins again! 👏👏👏
Calling all University students interested in learning more about #Radiocarbon dating & #Bayesian analysis. There are still free places available on this short course for #NERC & #AHRC students!
Special BA Arch & Anth alumna in-conversation event tomorrow 5pm @spcoxford.bsky.social - award winning playwright, El Blackwood discusses 'Theatre as Ethnography - exploring the lives of NHS Nurses'. Find out how anthropological methods have inspired & informed her theatrical career.
Love this! Oooh, can you do a Star Wars one too please? Maybe release it on 4 May 😍
Congratulations to friend of the School and our 2025 Meyerstein lecturer - Professor Naomi Sykes - on this prestigious award! Will hope to see you back here so we can hear updates!
Archaeology of #Persian #Garden complex discovered by our @eamena.bsky.social team. 🪷🍒🍎🌴🛰️#RemoteSensing #aerialphotos
Prof Hamerow hosted a celebration for the FeedSax project team & their amazing open access outputs inc. their book 'Feeding Medieval England'. The School's Sheaf of Wheat also attended - #archaeobotonists will understand! @erc.europa.eu @archanchistleic.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
Project Managers (Fieldwork) - Oxford and Cambridge
Oxford Archaeology
Salary: £42,845 - £54,713 per annum (based on experience)
Closing Date: March 1st, 2026
Location: Oxford and Cambridge
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
Archaeology is political. Heritage is political. The past is political.
🪙 A Viking silver hoard puts Yorkshire "at the heart of a much wider, Eurasian Viking economy” says Dr Jane Kershaw, Associate Professor @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social as research reveals Viking trade links reaching deep into the Islamic world.
Full story👇 #SSDConnections
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...
If you are interested in applying to University anywhere, you need to follow Dr Matt Williams @jesusoxford.bsky.social for interview tips, personal statement advice, study skills and general 'how to think' nuggets of gold! Check him out on YouTube and TikTok! youtu.be/61MXakN87XQ?... 👨🎓📝👩🎓#studyhere
A new paper lead by by Jo Ostapkowicz on some wonderful wood carvings from Brazil @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In London TODAY at 5pm in person: Senate House, room 264, & online - Dr Amy Styring will talk about changing agricultural practices from the #Neolithic to the #Viking Age & how plant #isotope data transform interpretations of past human #diets.
🔗 Registration link:
ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
