🌱 The FAIR Fenland Deposit-modelling Dataset will be led by Dr Phil Stastney. The dataset will support 3D modelling of past landscapes, including an open-access database of over 15,000 trenches, test pits and boreholes.
🌱 The Online Atlas of Past Animals and Plants in the Fens will be led by Dr Rachel Ballantyne, in collaboration with Poppy Szaybo from @clr-cambridge.bsky.social. The atlas will draw upon a new database of over 1.2 million ancient plant and animal remains.
We are delighted to share that the @fenscapes.bsky.social Project have been awarded two grants from the first round of the @hsds-update.bsky.social Small Grants Programme. The two newly-funded projects will create innovative online resources.
👉 Find out more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/fenscap...
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Join us this Thursday for ‘Palaeoclimate Forecasting and the Next Stage of AI in Archaeology’ with Mark Altaweel from @ucl.ac.uk
📅 Thursday 5 March 2026
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
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
Join us this Thursday for ‘Between Codices, Archives and Algorithms: On How AI is Transforming Historical Archaeology and Cultural Heritage’ with Patricia Murrieta-Flores from @lancasteruni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 26 February 2026
⏰ 4pm
talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
Join us on Thursday for ‘The COST Action Managing AI in Archaeology (MAIA): Building an International Network’ with Holly Wright from @york.ac.uk
📅 Thursday 19 February 2026
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
📣 New Debate in @antiquity.ac.uk on Applied Archaeology and Global Challenges by Matthew Davies and Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
👉 Read more here: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/applied...
#appliedarchaeology
📸 Sam Lunn-Rockliffe
We are delighted that the Oued Beht Archaeological Project was awarded a 2025 Field Discovery Award at the Shanghai World Archaeology Forum!
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/oued-be...
Join us this Thursday for ‘Machine Heritage: Controversies in AI-Generated Meanings and Values of the Past’ with Chiara Bonacchi @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📅 Thursday 12 February 2026
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
📺 If you missed Digging for Britain last night, you can catch up now on BBC iPlayer!
You’ll have the chance to see our team of students and CAU staff excavating at Wandlebury Country Park over the summer
👉 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
@cambridgearch.bsky.social
@cambridgeppf.bsky.social
@cambridgearch.bsky.social @cambridgeppf.bsky.social
Found on the Department’s training dig the remains, both complete burials and disarticulated bone, included at least one decapitation and a man approx 6ft 5in tall with a trepanned head.
The discovery is showcased on ‘Digging for Britain’ S13 Ep5 tonight on BBC Two or available now on iPlayer
Archaeologists and students from the Department of Archaeology and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit have found a burial pit containing the remains of 10 individuals that may be the aftermath of a battle/execution from around the 9th century AD.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Image: CAU
Join us this Thursday for ‘Governing the Future: Ethics, Power and Responsibility in Archaeological AI’ with Alphaeus Lien-Talks from @york.ac.uk
📅 Thursday 5 February 2026
⏰ 4pm
👉 More info and how to join online: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...
📣 Work with us! 📣
The McDonald Institute invites applications for the eighth Renfrew Fellowship in archaeology. Named in honour of the Institute's founding Director, Professor Colin Renfrew.
📅 Closing date: 27 February 2026
👉 More info here: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/renfrew...
📣 Work with us! 📣
We are seeking to appoint a part-time, permanent Biomolecular Research Laboratory Technician!
Hear a bit more about the role from @matthewcollins.bsky.social
📅 Closing date: 2 February
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole...
The special issue is welcoming submissions on any topic relating to hominin extinction until March 31st: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The first article from the Cambridge Prisms: Extinction special issue on 'Hominin Cultural and Biological Extinctions', guest edited by @jjrowan.bsky.social and Dr Alastair Key, has just been published.
A continuous record of early human stone tool production: doi.org/10.1017/ext....
An incredible field team of 62 people. Photo credit: Dr Sarah Paris
If you enjoyed reading the blog last week about the ENTANGLED project’s fieldwork in Mozambique, you’ll enjoy reading this new blog from the Ng’ipalajem team about their fieldwork in Kenya @palaeotrails.bsky.social
Read their blog here: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/muddlin...
📸 Sarah Paris
Christopher Evans receiving his award from Professor Deborah Prentice
Rarely awarded Honorary MA degree for Cambridge Archaeologist Christopher Evans, former Director of the @cambridgearch.bsky.social
This honorary award is only rarely given and marks an outstanding contribution to the University, or City or County of Cambridge.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/rarely-...
A new study by @samleggs22.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & Tamsin O'Connell 'Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100'
arch.cam.ac.uk/news/roots-of-medieval-migration-into-england-uncovered-in-new-study
Graphical abstract for the paper. Skeletons with male & female grave goods (sword and brooches with bead string), with arrows to a tooth showing the type of analyses & subsequent information you can get from them. First arrow goes to isotopes which tell about individual migration; strontium is linked to food and underlying soils/geology; oxygen is linked to drinking water and to the climate. The second arrow goes to DNA which informs about ancestry and relatedness. To the right is a map of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa with a big oval of arrows to indicate movement around all areas of the map, and a map pin in England with arrows from various regions leading to it, to show that people moved from all across the map into England in the early medieval period.
🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/
📣 Published Open Access! 📣 "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c AD 400-100" 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2025.2583016 by @samleggs22.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social & O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social 🧬⚛️🧪🦷 #EdinArch #archaeology #medieval
A great start to 2026! My paper with Alastair Key is out #openaccess in Cambridge Prisms Extinction.
We examine temporal continuity in the African ESA - no significant gaps, no evidence for loss of tool making abilities c.3.3-1.5 Ma.
@cam-archaeology.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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
The team landing at Pangaia on Bazaruto, while local residents prepare fishing nets on the shore.
Last August and September, the ENTANGLED project team undertook exciting new fieldwork at two recently identified archaeological sites in the province of Inhambane, Mozambique.
Read about it in their recent blog!
👉 www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/uncover...
📸 Abigail Moffett
A new study published in Antiquity explores how the use of red ochre in prehistoric burials reveals cultural change and identity in Thailand from the Neolithic to the Iron Age.
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/ochre-u...
📸 C. F. W. Higham
@sarah-paris.bsky.social
A new study by Dr Bolaji Owoseni examines potsherds from herringbone pavements at two medieval northern Yorùbáland sites.
Dr Owoseni also ran a two-day community engagement event in Ilorin, Nigeria which successfully brought together over 200 participants.
www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/pottery...
✨ We are delighted that Dr Joseph Lewis has been awarded the Journal of Archaeological Science Reproducibility Prize
👉 Read more: www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jose...
