For your midweek happy 🥰📸Professor Shadreck Chirikure ( @chirikure.bsky.social ) looking very dapper as he models his new project merch for New Bantu Mosaics

The back cover of the Archaeometry Journal, vol 68 (2) April 2026 listing the table of contents.

Click on the link to read Volume 68 (2) of our #Archaeometry Journal. Read it online here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754754...

Colonialism in Africa: archaeology offers a deeper view Archaeology offers a useful way to counter some biases.

Colonialism in Africa: archaeology offers a deeper view
theconversation.com/colonialism-...

The project logo shows a simple map of Africa with crisscrossing lines creating a crazing paving style mosaic within the continent. Some of the shapes in the south are coloured in in red, orange and green.

Photo credit: Dr Alice Williams - a small wooden structure on three legs with straw roof, covering a firepit. there are red and green cloths hanging on a string between two of the structure legs.

Photo credit: Dr Mica Jones. A small stone staircase ascends between two huge rocks. The staircase appears to significantly narrow as it rises so it looks like a squeeze at the top!

One of our newest projects: New Bantu Mosaics, led by @chirikure.bsky.social is up & running now & the photos from the field are glorious! @alicejwilliams.bsky.social
@micabjones.bsky.social Find out more at: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/new-bantu-mo...

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

Job Vacancies

📢Job alert! Come & work with us as the Project Administrator for Dr Anke Hein's exciting new project China-TRACER (Technological Processes and Social Organisation in Early Northern China). Deadline for applications: 6 Feb. For full details: www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies

A great photo of Nehanda and Kaguvi. Hope you will enjoy.

This 🎄 we are celebrating 70 years of innovation & impact at our Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art (RLAHA to our friends). 🎉👏⚛️🔬🧪🌋🦴🧬 The history of the lab is one long list of shameless namedropping for #archaeologicalscience! So many industry leaders through these doors!

@ox.ac.uk @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

What can ancient civilisations teach us about sustainability? YouTube video by The British Academy

youtu.be/hFhflvq6Grc

Want to study #archaeology at graduate level in #Oxford?

Join our tutors at 3pm Thurs 20 Nov on zoom for a cosy chat about our world-leading MSc Archaeology degree.

Meeting link: zoom.us/j/9184876042...

How can the cosmologies of successful past civilisations help us address the challenge of sustainability?  In this 10-Minute Talk, Professor Shadreck Chirikure explores how the worldviews of historic societies shaped economic development without compromising their environment. https://bit.ly/4onudYR

📸 friendly but mildly competitive cordage making @butserancientfarm.co.uk yesterday as tutors
@rschulting.bsky.social, @chirikure.bsky.social & Rachel Wood (@oxradiocarbon.bsky.social) & our MSc Archaeological Science students sought to impress the quality control judge: Pawfessor Kenta 🐾#studyhere

What an incredibly productive field season at Great Zimbabwe! Great science loading, new narratives loading!

Thanks to @ox.ac.uk @NMMZ @Great Zimbabwe University @UKRI @erc.europa.eu

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

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

its out finally....

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

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

Pristine spessartine garnet with quartz and muscovite—flawless crystals, brilliant luster, and textbook-perfect morphology from all angles.

Video: Durrani Fine Minerals

#crystals #gems

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

Are you a recent PhD Graduate and interested in materials analysis in archaeology. Get in touch...about the opportunity below...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/post...

Introduction: is the human past a history of colonialism? This introduction sets out the rationale for this collection of papers by exploring the question what and how does colonialism from within Africa look like, and can it be compared to other forms? I...

Full article: Introduction: is the human past a history of colonialism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....