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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢The School of Archaeology proudly presents: the #radiocarbon dating process - 🎞️⭐: Dr Rachel Wood, Jamie Cameron, Gary Lai, Shutong Jin, Silvia Tardaguila Giacomozzi & Nikta Sarie. #archaeologicalscience #womeninstem #lablife @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @graduate.ox.ac.uk youtu.be/xQka8ohWLFo?...

The Radiocarbon Dating Process - the Journey of a Sample

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Michael Fradley @mfradley.bsky.social · 20d

Our work at @eamena.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social on these sites will continue with sites visits to the camps in the near future. They also featured on a recent documentary on the Nabataean kingdom #Jordan #RomanFortThursday www.channel4.com/programmes/b...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 22d

This summer Prof Amy Bogaard & three of our #Arch&Anth students worked at this dig at Aşıklı Höyük, a 10,000-year-old settlement, & it continues to shed light on the early stages of Neolithic human life. @kebleoxford.bsky.social www.dailysabah.com/life/history...

Türkiye’s ancient legacy: 1st domestication of sheep, goats

Archaeological excavations at Aşıklı Höyük, a 10,000-year-old settlement located in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia, continue to shed light...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 22d

We feel delighted & privileged to be part of the UK's incredible #archaeology schools. Whether or not you take these rankings seriously, it's great to see our name listed with all these other fantastic ones bit.ly/3KmE022 #studyarchaeology @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oxford-anthro.bsky.social

Best UK universities for anthropology & archaeology – league table

The study of what it is to be human and learning from the past through physical remains

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 23d

Michael & Ruby's article is titled: Urbanism and Sustainability: Life with Water.

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 23d

Published today & co-ed by Prof Manuel Fernández-Götz, it also inc. articles by Prof Amy Bogaard, & by two PhD students at the School, Michael Leadbetter & Ruby Birin. It's packed full of School goodness! www.brepols.net/products/IS-... Urban Archaeology & sustainability & resilience

Brepols - Journal of Urban Archaeology 11 (2025)

Brepols is an international academic publisher of works in the humanities, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of histo...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 27d

Congratulations to our wonderful friend of the School Lanisha Butterfield who has been awarded 2025 Wainwright Prize Children's Book of the Year: Flower Block 🌻📖🏆👏🎉 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk www.countryfile.com/reviews/book...

"Gripping and poignant": first-time authors win 2025's prestigious Wainwright Prize for nature writing | Countryfile.com

Two debut authors scoop this year’s top book awards as the Wainwright Prize winners are announced.

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 8

Welcome to Bluesky Professor Shadreck Chirikure!

The Director of our RLAHA (awesome archaeology lab) is here!

Find out about his vision for archaeology here: www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
and give him a follow: @chirikure.bsky.social

Professor Shadreck Chirikure: We owe a lot to the past. Archaeology

Professor Shadreck Chirikure defies expectations: an archaeologist of ancient civilisations who is fixed on the future; an expert in highly-technical sciences, who likes to mend random things, and a

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are delighted to share the wonderful news that Amy Bogaard, Professor of European Archaeology, has been awarded the Christiane & Jean Guilaine Prize 2025 👏📢🏆@ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @Academie_IBL bit.ly/3JT5egH

Professor Amy Bogaard awarded the prestigious Christiane and Jean Guilaine Prize 2025

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢Students from Africa - apply by Tues 2 Dec 2025 for these (www.kennedy.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...) projects - and study a fully funded 4-year AfOx Kennedy Trust studentship - building links with scientists across Africa! 🌍🔗🔬

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · Sep 8

One month before the next NEIF deadline! Please get in contact asap if you want to apply for some radiocarbon dates in this round. For UK based students, post-docs and beyond. @isotopesuk.bsky.social @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social www.isotopesuk.org/apply.html

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 5

Join our #OCMA team & Franck Goddio for an exploration of Alexandria’s ancient Portus Magnus and one of its enigmatic sacred sites, the Temple to Poseidon. 5pm, Thurs 25 Sept @hmcoxford.bsky.social ⚓🧜‍♂️⛵

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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣📣 This Saturday 6th September EAMENA features on Bettany Hughes show on Channel 4 about the Nabataeans, which features flights with our Bob Bewley over the Roman camps we identified in SE Jordan.
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For our original research paper:👇🏻
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Sep 1

Our Practical Mariner team are online at @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social's annual meeting‬ this year in session 69: Wayfaring and place-making in the Mediterranean Sea from 16:30-18:30 CEST on Weds the 3rd Sept. www.e-a-a.org/eaa2025

EAA2025 Home

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 28

Exciting things afoot @hertfordcollege.bsky.social next weekend!#archaeology #excavation #openday #oxford www.hertford.ox.ac.uk/event/archae...

Archaeology Open Day - Hertford College | University of Oxford

Step behind the hoardings and see history uncovered! On Saturday 6 September, Hertford’s main site will be open for visitors to view finds discovered by Oxford Archaeology during excavations for the C...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 22

Published yesterday & co-authored by Prof Rick Schulting & RA Dr Fernandez-Crespo, evidence of the complex social & cultural roles that violence played in the Neolithic period www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

Ritual sacrifice or propaganda? Oxford-led research uncovers Europe's

A new study led by the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has revealed what may be the earliest evidence of victory celebrations in European prehistory, offering a striking new

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Aug 21

'What’s clear is that in the 9th century, the Vikings were already awash in Islamic silver.'

New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

Read more from @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social's Dr Jane Kershaw ⬇️

Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it

New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

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HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social · Aug 21

PhD Studentship – University of Oxford & ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, UK
Fully funded doctoral project in Archaeology & Numismatics
📅 Deadline: 19 Sept 2025
🔗 Details: higherjobz.com/fully-funded...
#AcademicJobs #Archaeology #UKJobs #PhDlife #ResearchJobs #AncientHistory

Fully Funded PhD in Archaeology Oxford 2025 | HigherJobz

Apply for a fully funded PhD in Archaeology at Oxford with ISIS Neutron and Muon Source. £20,780 stipend + tuition. Deadline: 19 Sept 2025.

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Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social · Aug 20

A piece in The Conversation, contextualising our results from the Bedale hoard

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Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it

New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

theconversation.com

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 20

Great to see so many of the School's staff highlighted in this @ox.ac.uk feature - Profs Schulting, Ramsey, Barton & Smith & Drs Hulin & Styring all investigating different evidence for how humans have responded historically to #climatechange. www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #archeaology past & future!

Culture, education and attitudes

Experts at Oxford are working to understand our past climate history, uncover how our perceptions are shaped by the media, and emphasising the important role of the humanities in helping to tackle the...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 19

And.... drumroll please....🥁.... a place @lincoln.ox.ac.uk!!!! archit.web.ox.ac.uk/article/exci...

Exciting new joint funded doctoral studentship between the School and the ISIS Neutron and Muon Service. Apply by 19 Sept.

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 19

📢Exciting funded PhD opp - Investigating Early Electrum Coinage with Neutrons & Muons.
- Funding? ✅💰
- Archaeological Science?✅🧪
- Access to collections in the Ashmolean Museum? ✅🏛️
- Get to play with extra cool lab tech? (muonic X-ray emission spectroscopy (μXES) ✅🔬

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 19

Exciting implications for these #AI tools developed by our colleagues in the Classics Faculty #Ithaca and #Aeneus predictingthepast.com generative AI models designed to assist historians in the study of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. Time to play!

Predicting the Past | Contextualising, restoring, and attributing ancient texts

Ithaca and Aeneas are generative AI models designed to assist historians in the study of ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions. They are part of a wider initiative on developing collaborative AI for hi...

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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · Aug 13

You want hillforts? We got hillforts! The AHRC-funded project 'An atlas of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland' was an HCA project with the University of Oxford,
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#HillfortsWednesday #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Edinburghuniversity

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 18

@jk-viking.bsky.social you made it into The Clarion - oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...

Clarion Weekly, 15 August 2025

In any other week, the visit of US vice-president J.D. Vance to West Oxfordshire would be the biggest story. Until Thursday night, it was – then Oxford United got the official thumbs-up for their new ...

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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · Aug 14

🎉 Congratulation to everyone on #ALevelResultsDay! if you are coming to study with us, make sure to use the tag below. See you soon!

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · Aug 14

You did it 🎉

Congratulations to everyone who’s secured their place at Oxford - we’ll see you in October.

Welcome to your new home of learning, discovery, and unforgettable moments.

Let us know if you're joining by using the #GoingToOxford hashtag 🎓

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