News Archive

In this BBC Ideas film, Dr Joel Alves traces the rabbits who wreaked ecological havoc in Australia

04 September 2026

'Feeding Medieval England' wins the EAA Book Prize 2026

02 September 2026

Regent's Park College add Archaeology and Anthropology to their list of undergraduate subjects

29 June 2026

Prof Shadreck Chirikure to give the Keynote Lecture at ASAPA 2026 at the University of Mpumalanga in Mbombela

25 June 2026

Register now for EAMENA's British Academy & Arcadia 'Mapping World Archaeology' Conference on 7th - 9th December 2026 at Worcester College, Oxford

24 June 2026

Professor Rick Schulting awarded major European Research Council Advanced Grant for 'Stocking the Past'

23 June 2026

Oldest strains of plague caused deadly outbreaks 5,500 years ago

17 June 2026

Congratulations to Professor Rick Schulting and his co-authors, awarded the Ben Cullen prize for their paper titled: 'The darker angels of our nature'

03 June 2026

Come and work in our Professional Services Team

28 May 2026

Dr George Green recognised in Vice-Chancellor's Awards shortlist for Breakthrough Researcher Award

30 April 2026

Professor Manuel Fernández-Götz receives prestigious Humboldt award

27 April 2026

Special guest seminar: Documenting the destruction of archaeological sites by al-Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq

22 April 2026

EVENT : Prof Sturt Manning will give The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology, 2026 - 5pm, 14 May

20 April 2026

Oldest genetic evidence for domestic dogs identified in Europe and Türkiye

25 March 2026

Funded studentship opportunity on: Technological Processes & Social Organization in Early Northern China project with Dr Anke Hein

20 February 2026

Movement, Adaptation, and Resilience. Archaeological Science and the African past.

17 February 2026

Short Course - Radiocarbon Dating and Bayesian Chronological Analysis - Sign up now!

13 January 2026

Professor Dame Jessica Rawson will deliver three public lectures as 2026 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

09 January 2026

Genomic study reveals that a millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species

06 January 2026

Announcing our next Head of School: Professor Damian Robinson

17 December 2025

The GINI (Global Dynamics of Inequality) project is awarded a 2025 Shanghai Archaeology Forum research award

16 December 2025

PNAS Special Feature: Genetics of Canine Domestication, Migration, and Behavior

01 December 2025

New research challenges assumptions about impacts by pre-industrial, small-scale societies on the natural environment in pre-Columbian Caribbean.

28 November 2025

Alumni DPhil research in the news: Cats became our companions way later than you think