UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share!
We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab.
£53-64k in a great department.
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www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

after 6 years, finally out in @nature.com!
‪Huge expansion of the human #niche in Africa ~70kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with unique ecological flexibility

co-led with Emily Hallett @eegcam.bsky.social & @elliescerri.bsky.social
#prehistory #humanevolution #paleoecology #SDM

See you tomorrow to show off another underwhelming project underway 😉

New method provides the key to accessing proteins in ancient human A new method developed by researchers at the Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient

A new method developed by researchers at @ndm.ox.ac.uk could soon unlock the vast repository of biological information held in the proteins of ancient soft tissues.

Find out more ⬇️

Lovely to see work done by @uoearchhist.bsky.social students in SHArD 3D out in the wild! Non-destructive microCT imaging of chicken bones at Fishbourne🐣

Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876).

The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque)

Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque).

In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.

🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?

No...

Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Brilliant way to end the term with some of our brilliant @exeter.ac.uk 3rd years and colleagues across the faculty showing off how Dead Important the humanities really are!!

Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen , listed on F...

@whatkatiedigs.bsky.social has a funded PhD opportunity @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social

Using #ZooMS and #sedaDNA #ancientDNA, #radiocarbon dating and #geoarchaeology to find Scotland's lost Ice Age animals 🦣❄️

#PhDposition #archaeology #paleontology #biomolecular

Job alert!
@katerinad.bsky.social and I are looking for an archaeologist/archaeological scientist to join us on a 4 year post-doc, helping to manage and participate in field and lab work on 2 ERC grants in our group. We would love to hear from you via the link! 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Postdoct...

Come to Sweden! Funded digital heritage PhD alert!

Come and work with us on Gotland. We have two fully funded 4-year PhD projects in Archaeology and Conservation (Heritage Science). Join the team (and me) focussing on Digital Innovations for Sustainable Heritage. Details below...

Lovey to have students from across the University using our CT scanner for their amazing projects!

Come join us! PALaEoScot is now offering a fully-funded PhD to work on ZooMS and sedaDNA studies at Scottish Late Glacial and Early Holocene sites. Closing 13/4/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦌 🐴 🦣 🦬 🦊 🐺 (please note, full funding only available for U.K. domiciled candidates only).

Seems like now is a good a time as any to remind UK academias that they can mentor Ukrainian colleagues looking to continue their work through the on-going invasion via the @scienceforukraine.bsky.social initiative. #StandWithUkraine

scienceforukraine.eu/d/U3396

What About... Artificial Selection w/Greger Larson Danny and Jason put their best traits forward in a conversation with evolutionary geneticist Greger Larson on the topic of ARTIFICIAL SELECTION.

It is impossible to get tired of talking about dogs and domestication. What a thrill to chat with Danny Nucci and Jason Burns on their What About... podcast. Enjoy all the serious silliness here:
thewhataboutpodcast.com/2025/02/13/w...

Tracking 4000 years of raptor diets through isotope analysis reveals urban scavenging with implications for conservation Birds of prey (‘raptors’) often consume anthropogenic foods and can be closely associated with human settlements. In medieval Britain, birds of prey w…

Raptors today are no longer scavenging around settlements like their prehistoric and medieval ancestors
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

@juliettewaterman.bsky.social @naomisykes.bsky.social

Date for your diary 🇩🇰

Copenhagen from 14th - 17th October 2025

11th International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
Archaeozoology, Genetics, Proteomics, and Morphometrics (AGPM) Working Group Meeting
🦴🦷🐄🐐🐏🐟🦉🧬

sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Been (not so patiently!) waiting for this! My favourite working group by far!

‘They see it is living’: Durham professor’s mission to get more pupils into classics Arlene Holmes-Henderson wants all children in UK to have equal access to classical education

We love Arlene Holmes-Henderson - read more about her brilliant work here!

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

British Academy Calls for Greater Role of Archaeology in School Curriculum

🏺 British Academy & heritage orgs push for archaeology in UK schools! Prof Collins: "It bridges STEM & humanities while teaching crucial skills." Heritage sector's £15.3B impact shows growing career opportunities. Proposal includes new modules & assessment frameworks 🔍📚
#Education #Heritage #UKNews

Come join us at @uofearch.bsky.social in the Biocultural HIVE, part of our AHRC RICHeS award! Application deadline 5 January 2025.

If you’re looking for some post-Christmas telly, you’ll find @suegreaney.bsky.social, our amazing 1st Years, (and hopefully not me!) on this season of #DiggingForBritain from early January!

Counting cattle – Ness paper presented at Oxford environmental archaeology conference Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.

Dr Julia Cussans presented a well-received paper on the animal bone assemblage at the Ness at the 44th Association for Environmental Archaeology conference in Oxford.
#Neolithic #Orkney #Archaeology #Excavation #NessOfBrodgar #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

It was so fun! Thanks for the amazing organisation 🤩

Shame on Archaeology Magazine for…*checks notes*…writing about archaeology!

I continue to use this screenshot in many talks about the Easter project. Gotta keep us grounded 😅

Thrilled to be at Oxford for the annual Association of Environmental Archaeology conference hosted at the beautiful @kebleoxford.bsky.social. The wildlife session on Friday is filled with cool talks from our amazing HumAnE bioarch PhD students at Exeter!

Job Vacancies: Two Laboratory Technician posts on AHRC RICHeS project The UCL Institute of Archaeology currently has two vacancies for Laboratory Technicians on the AHRC-funded RICHeS project (Refs.: B03-02282 and B03-02283). The deadline for applications is 1 January 2...

Double Job Alert!! We are recruiting an archaeobotany technician and an osteology (human & zooarchaeology) technician to help curate and improve access to our collections. Come join us at the Institute for Archaeology, University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/...

The cataloging of shape is central to archaeology, so we’re editing a special issue of World Archaeology about it! Get in touch if you’re working on anything from pots to landscapes!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Estimating osteological sex using predictive geometric morphometric analyses of the greater sciatic notch Accurately estimating the biological sex of human skeletal remains is crucial in both forensic and archaeological contexts for constructing biological…

New publication led by my excellent masters student on osteological sexing of the greater sciatic notch using GMM techniques. What a joy to write this with some of my favourite people!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Please share. We're looking for a Cultural Anthropologist with a specialty in Native North America at UMass Boston.

employmentopportunities.umb.edu/boston/en-us...