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#Archaeology @ox.ac.uk www.arch.ox.ac.uk All the big ideas in time. Try our 'School on Bluesky' starter pack: go.bsky.app/JX5CP1k - Toot ☥ come in!
Fascinating study by our friends @oxford-anthro.bsky.social 🐒Monkey friendships with dogs, deer, and pigs offer clues to the evolutionary origins of pet-keeping!
University of Oxford@ox.ac.uk · 3d agoA new international study led by the University of Oxford suggests that some of the behavioural foundations of human-animal companionship may have far deeper evolutionary roots than previously thought. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4pNMOik
If Wes Anderson made a film in our Radiocarbon lab, it would be this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQka...
The Radiocarbon Dating Process: the Journey of a Sample
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Welcome to Youth Day! ✨ We’ve got lots going on today as part of the #FestivalofArchaeology! New blogs and posters, launching Unearthing Futures' digital legacy, opening recruitment for the @archaeologyuk.bsky.social Youth Advisory Board, and releasing a new Welsh-language activity. 🧵1/2
Explore the past through sketching with artist Janet Swailes ✏️ Book Here: tr.ee/NxQGEX A half day session exploring archaeology, local history and the Eden Valley Landscape. Materials provided | A gentle 1.2 km route | No experience needed @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Tomorrow (Friday 24th) National Trust archaeologists will be on hand to answer your questions for #AskAnArchaeologist as part of the #FestivalofArchaeology. It's probably one of our favourite days of the year! Join us here between 9.15am and 4pm. @nationaltrust.org.uk @archaeologyuk.bsky.social
The Knepp Accord has been agreed & signed by 50 specialists from across archaeology, farming, heritage & nature recovery incl. Prof Amy Bogaard, Dr Anwen Cooper (Rewilding) & colleagues in the NT & Oxford Archaeology (@oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social) 8point9.com/knepp-accord...
Knepp Accord aims to unite history and nature for climate‑resilience - 8.9ha
Knepp Accord aims to unite history and nature for climate‑resilience
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Oh the fun we had at the Festival of Archaeology @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social over the weekend! #CBA #FestivalofArchaeology2026 #museums #outreach. Thanks to all our staff & students who designed & led such exciting activities & a special prize for outdressing us all to Nicole of Grounded History!
I know what you're all thinking - finally! An event offering you the opportunity of a lifetime: to excavate archaeological poo! Remember, the CBA's #FestivalofArchaeology is for grown ups too! See you tomorrow @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social from 11am for free fun exploring how nature shapes us.
👀📹 Archaeologists are working alongside the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social at the #RothburyEstate to see how landscapes change & can be managed now & in the future - archaeology, ecology, biocultural heritage in this precious landscape vimeo.com/1189383632/2...
Soil Sampling on The Rothbury Estate
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🚨TODAY at 4.30pm - current DPhil Alice Dobinson will join this panel discussing zooarchaeology & biomolecular evidence for prehistoric horses in Britain for the #Rewilding later prehistory project 🐎 #domestication #extinction #prehistory #horses & #nature restoration
Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 4w agoOne week to go until our next research seminar🐴 The Horse in Prehistory Thursday 16th July | 16:30 - 18:30 Saddle up and book your space here: tr.ee/OA-Year-of-the-Horse #prehistory #zooarchaeology #heritagetalks
This Saturday we'll be welcoming families & their friends of all ages to @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social from 11am–4pm for the #CBA (free!) #Festival of #Archaeology. Come along & explore how people used plants in the past! #archaeobotany #crafting 🌷🌼 Event details👇 www.ashmolean.org/event/festiv...
FESTIVAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY 2026
Join our Festival of Archaeology day for all the family and take part in a range of exciting, free activities and tours across the Museum and its galleries.
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🚨Dr Jane Kreshaw @jk-viking.bsky.social has edited a new special issue of our #Archaeometry Journal titled: "The movement and circulation of silver in early medieval north‐west Europe". Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...
The movement and circulation of silver in early medieval north‐west Europe: Archaeometry: Vol 68, No S4
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Fran's (alumna DPhil) thoughtful study of bioanthropological, radiocarbon dating & sequential analyses of teeth & hair to reconstruct an archaeological biography for one woman who lived & died in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile +500 years ago. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...
Tracking the life and last journey of an Altiplano woman from the Atacama Desert
Abstract. The unusual burial of a young woman in the Pica Oasis in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900–1450) ra
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One week to go until our next research seminar🐴 The Horse in Prehistory Thursday 16th July | 16:30 - 18:30 Saddle up and book your space here: tr.ee/OA-Year-of-the-Horse #prehistory #zooarchaeology #heritagetalks
We planted sunflowers in our School’s front garden and they are giving sunbeams even on this cloudy, overcast day 🌻🌞 Happy Monday all!
Some gratuitously arty shots of zooarchaeology in action (for our #UNIQ Summer School for #archandanth) 🐏🐏🐑
The @envarch.bsky.social 2026 conference will be held in York in November! Very excited to be helping organise this year’s event. Fascinating academic-commercial #archaeology theme. See details below and consider submitting a paper! #geoarchaeology #environmental
Association for Environmental Archaeology@envarch.bsky.social · last mo.CALL FOR PAPERS Bridging the Divide: Environmental Research at the Interface Between Academic and Developer-led Archaeology The Association for Environmental Archaeologists' Autumn Conference will be at The Guildhall in York from Friday 13th to Sunday 15th November 2026 Visit envarch.net/conferences
We are running a workshop on sampling for radiocarbon and statistical analysis of dates at the IPPA (Yogyakarta) in Nov (with Shimona Kealy). Slots are filling rapidly, so sign up asap/ send on to anyone who might be interested! @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.ippasecretariat.org/ippa2026/wor...
Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association - Workshops
We are delighted to announce that different workshops for the IPPA community will be available on the 1st of November 2026, the day before the official opening of the Congress. All delegates are invit...
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Christmas presents sorted thanks to our colleagues in Earth Sciences 🌋
MPLS Division, University of Oxford@mplsoxford.bsky.social · last mo.How do volcanoes work? 🌋 Professors Tamsin Mather and David Pyle's new children's book, The Power of Volcanoes, combines science and illustration to introduce readers aged 7–11 to one of Earth's amazing natural phenomena. Find out more: https://tinyurl.com/3a6fddm2
Magic hasn't died out & it has a history (that includes onions, nails and chimneys!) Over 9500 people have now watched Professor Chris Gosden's spooky public lecture on 'The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present' www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7p... 👀📼🪄
The History of Magic, by Professor Chris Gosden
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Dr Anke Hein et al recently published the findings of their project investigating archaeological material collected from north-west China in the 1920s and housed at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm. Read their findings in @antiquity.ac.uk doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Excavating Andersson: unlocking forgotten treasures in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA), Stockholm | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Excavating Andersson: unlocking forgotten treasures in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (MFEA), Stockholm - Volume 100 Issue 411
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It's a pitch invasion by School members past & present to #ASAPA2026 conference. Looking at the photo of the campus at the University of Mpumalanga just shared with us by Prof Tim Forssman - I think I need to attend! www.arch.ox.ac.uk/article/prof... @chirikure.bsky.social @micabjones.bsky.social
Archaeology is a big & small world! Tim is a Research Associate here, + VP to Prof Peter Mitchell for the South African Archaeological Society (2026-28) & Chair of the Local Organising Committee for ASAPA conference 2026 at which @chirikure.bsky.social is Keynote Lecturer asapa2026.co.za/index.php
ASAPA: 2026 Biennial Conference
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SAASSociety@saassociety.bsky.social · last yr.🔍 Careers in Archaeology and Heritage Meet Dr. Tim Forssman, a Senior Lecturer making strides in the field and inspiring the next generation of archaeologists. Whether in the classroom or the field, his work helps uncover the rich tapestry of human history. www.saassarchaeology.com/careersinarc...
Great to see our PalaeoBARN project research on the 14,300 year old #dog forming part of the @bodleian.ox.ac.uk fabulous 'Pets and their People' exhibition. Also sharing a bonus pic of a mummified #cat which really felt like the emotional ❤️😻 ⭐ of the exhibit! 🐈⬛ 🐕🦺 🐾🐾 @gregerlarson.bsky.social #aDNA
Join us for our @britishacademy.bsky.social & Arcadia 'Mapping World Archaeology' Conference 📍Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, England 📅 Monday 7 December - Wednesday 9 December Register now! Early Bird rate £50 until 1st August! Follow link to register: 🔗 eamena.org/british-acad...
📯 Four Oxford social scientists have been awarded prestigious @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grants. Congratulations to Robert Klassen @education.ox.ac.uk, Rick Schulting @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social, Barbara Petrongolo and Martin Weidner @oxfordecondept.bsky.social! socsci.site.ox.ac.uk/articles/fou...
Four Oxford social scientists awarded major European Research Council Advanced Grants
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