Professor Peter Mitchell honoured with a special conference session at the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists
09 July 2024
Dr Lambros Malafouris hosts the EnvironMental: Material engagement and basic self-disorders in schizophrenia workshop at Hertford College
05 July 2024
Prof. Mitchell is the new President of the South African Archaeological Society
04 July 2024
Arcadia awards £2.2m for the continuation of the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa project (EAMENA)
14 June 2024
Our lab needs you! Request for Collections containing Bivalves Collected Before 1950 from the UK
02 May 2024
Professor Shadreck Chirikure has been awarded a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant (EU's Horizon Europe programme).
12 April 2024
Archaeological evidence suggests a very close bond between prehistoric hunter-gatherer group in Argentina and an extinct fox
10 April 2024
Research led by Dr Jane Kershaw solves the mystery of early medieval money, transforming our understanding of Europe's economic and political development
09 April 2024
The 44th Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology comes to Oxford
08 April 2024
New research finds that carbon isotope values of hazelnut shells are a new proxy for canopy density
01 March 2024
NERC and AHRC continue their significant investment in our lab as part of the National Environmental Isotope Facility (NEIF)
29 February 2024
Prof Schulting in The Conversation considers how new evidence is impacting the debate as to how long Neanderthals and modern humans co-existed
08 February 2024
Open access database and R package enables researchers to compare archaeobotanical data on past farming with present-day 'traditional' farming systems.
24 January 2024
A new technique to measure the number of chromosomes in ancient genomes identifies first prehistoric person with mosaic Turner syndrome
11 January 2024
Announcement: Professor Joanna Brück will give the Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2024
19 December 2023
Ancient chicken remains reveal the origins of virulence in Marek's disease virus
15 December 2023
New research confirms precolonial lineage of an extinct breed of dog, once kept for their wool
14 December 2023
New research deepens our understanding of the history of cats in Europe
07 November 2023
Register now for the Endangered Cultural Heritage in the Global South Hub (online conference)
16 August 2023
Announcing our partnership with the Museum of West African Art.
07 August 2023
What did the Romans do for us? Aqueducts and the art of Roman water management
04 August 2023
Prof Helena Hamerow awarded highly prestigious British Academy Fellowship
24 July 2023
Creative Meteorisms. A cross-disciplinary workshop and exhibition
24 July 2023
Funded DPhil position on the Horse Power project - apply now!
