News Archive

Our UNIQ Summer School for Archaeology and Anthropology 2023 is in full swing!

27 June 2023

3rd Radiocarbon and Diet Conference begins today! Full programme here.

20 June 2023

Book your tickets now for the celebratory dinner to mark the 30 year anniversary of Archaeology and Anthropology at Oxford

13 June 2023

Professor Peter Mitchell's 'African Islands' awarded the Society of Africanist Archaeologists 2023 book prize

06 June 2023

Archaeological evidence found for the oldest cases of plague to date in Britain

31 May 2023

The Digital Archive for Feeding Anglo-Saxon England (FeedSax) is now available on ADS

15 May 2023

'Spectacular' new find: Roman military camps in desert found by Oxford archaeologists using Google Earth

27 April 2023

Prof Gordon Noble (University of Aberdeen) will give the Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2023 on May 10

23 March 2023

2.9-Million-Year-Old Butchery Site Reopens Case of Who Made First Stone Tools

08 February 2023

Prof Julia Lee-Thorp awarded the Pomerance Award for Scientific Contributions to Archaeology 2023

10 January 2023

Prof Amy Bogaard joins the Oxford University delegation to champion nature at UN biodiversity conference

07 December 2022

Vote for Atlas of the Hillforts of Britain and Ireland, shortlisted for Book of the Year 2023

06 December 2022

Lisa Lodwick 1988 - 2022

10 November 2022

Horse Power. A €10 million ERC Synergy grant project in which the Terracotta warriors meet the ancient Mongolian state

25 October 2022

Opinion Piece: Dr Tim Clack on the role of cultural heritage in conflict and its aftermath

04 October 2022

Prof Pollard and Dr Liu have identified the ingredients in chemistry formulae from an 2,300-year-old Chinese text

10 August 2022

Professor Nick Barton elected as the inaugural President of the British Institute of Libyan and North African Studies

06 July 2022

Prestigious Tang prize for Oxford China expert Prof. Dame Jessica Rawson

20 June 2022

Major new international research reveals new evidence about when, where, and how chickens were domesticated

07 June 2022

A new ecological model to analyse agricultural disturbance throughout the Early Neolithic in SW Asia

06 June 2022

REF2021 results celebrate inclusivity and impact of Oxford's Archaeology submission

12 May 2022

Japanese Lake Sediment unlocks 150,000 years of history

07 April 2022

Leverhulme Trust award for new project: Agencies of behavioural change in early modern humans in NW Africa

15 March 2022

Launching the Celtic Coin Index Digital specimen website

04 March 2022