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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 8d

We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.

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26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York
3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people
10 October Stephanie Döpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App
17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations
24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space
31 October off off
7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR
14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play
21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS
28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research
5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA

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Leila A @leilaar.bsky.social · Sep 2

Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York!

Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!

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#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Jul 1

It's incredibly impactful, critical digital intervention that highlights a devastating time period in Peru and the ongoing human cost.

DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983 - 1985) is an ArcGIS storymap documenting Peru's Internal Armed Conflict by York Digital MSc graduate Diana Mogrovejo, now a PhD student at Michigan State University:

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...

The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983-1985)

by Diana Mogrovejo

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Jun 25

Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!

Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil, smiling, standing in front of beautiful flowers.

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · May 15

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️

No Stone Unturned | Play on gd.games

Play No Stone Unturned on gd.games, a game created with GDevelop, the free and easy game-making app.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · May 6

We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media:

sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Apr 25

Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online:

Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"

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A blue flight chart with words along the flight such as "bottom" and "help"

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Apr 22

FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen:

"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Mar 18

FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present:

"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"

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#archaeogaming

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Feb 26

FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. 🏺

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Data hierarchy demonstrating how to organise different smells in history and archaeology. There are example smells like "orange flower water" which connects to smells and smell transformations such as gloves.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thanks Reb!

This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Feb 19

DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT:

Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project

Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺

Zoom link here:

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Six examples of faces carved into stone. They are of varied styles. There is a scale bar at the bottom which demonstrates they're all >10cm.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Jan 28

Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate.

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Beth Jones on LinkedIn: Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to…

Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate a collaborative project between the Museum Of Oxford and Cheney…

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Dec 10

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺

www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

Several images from the Avebury Papers archive including photographs of the Avebury stones, drawings of a flint artefact, letters, team photographs, lists, and diaries.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Dec 9

New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc
Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:

archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...

My First Few Months at the ADS – Archaeology Data Service

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Dec 9

🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025:

archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa...

His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.

Archaeologist of the Year 2025 – Nominees - Current Archaeology

Below are the three individuals nominated for 2025’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field. Voting closes on 10 February and all the wi...

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Dec 3

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Dec 6, 1pm GMT:

Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:

"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"

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3D environment with objects and textures replicating a stone wall in Troy, with some photographs inset above the reconstruction.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Ecologies of violence: heritage and conflict in more-than-human worlds", this talk introduces work on (post)conflict heritage ecologies and discuss the process of 3D scanning a First World War "Red Zone" - an area too geographically and ecologically annihilated and contaminated for human occupation.

DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 25

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 29, 1pm GMT:

Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:

"Entrée interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"

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A red sign with the following in French and English: Danger no entry Undetonated explosives. There are trees and grass in the background

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 22

If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures:

sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · Nov 19

The future of archaeological survey!

Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Love this photo of James Taylor teaching one of our Digital MSc students how to fly a drone on the stray near the University of York. 🏺

James Taylor teaching a student how to fly a drone in a field. There are three other students standing in the background.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 18

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 22, 1pm GMT:

Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:

"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"

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A garage completely crammed full of stuff stacked on top of each other. You can see chairs, paintings, bins, and vases.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 11

Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology 🏺 PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data:

"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"

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This image has been generated in Canva using AI Prompt “challenging assumptions on the reuse of digital archaeological data”. It shows a few artefacts, a calculator, a camera, and a few unknown objects surrounding a tray with an unknown object inside.

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DAH Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · Nov 5

Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch!

This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺

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