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Lisa-Marie Shillito
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Professor of Geoarchaeology and Heritage Science at Durham University @arcdurham.bsky.social
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📣 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
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.
November 19, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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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
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Redirecting
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November 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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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

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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...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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🔬 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

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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.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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What is research culture, and why does it matter?

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What is Research Culture, and why does it matter?
Have you come across the term Research Culture? This refers to the values, behaviours, and working practices that shape how research is done...
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July 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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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

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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...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Marvellous Middens at the Auckland Palace Excavation

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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...
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June 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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Investigating the construction of a Bronze Age burial mound

#geoarchaeology

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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...
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June 20, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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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!
June 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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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!
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November 19, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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“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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Geoarchaeology : earth science and the past : [papers] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
x, 408 p. : 26 cm
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November 25, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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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...
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.
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October 1, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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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 😁
December 3, 2023 at 10:17 PM