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- Weed identification & ecology booklet
- Dire wolves were the last of an ancient New World canid lineage
- Dr Raju Kumar
- Sinclair Hood, 1917 - 2021
- Seabird guano sustained agricultural intensification in the hyperarid Atacama Desert, Chile.
- Tracing America's special relationship with dogs deep into the archaeological record
- Ceramic Stories
- New study reveals how pre-Columbian settlers adapted to the Bahamian Archipelago
- Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage Conference 16-20 Mar, 2021
- The Dig: Further Reading
- Being Egyptian: A new collaborative event series
- Dr Ashleigh Haruda
- Dr Lorena Becerra-Valdivia
- Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage Conference 16-20 Mar, 2021
- Neanderthals disappeared from North West Europe earlier than thought
- Neanderthals disappeared from North West Europe earlier than thought
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- Sir John Evans (1823–1908) and the Hallstatt Collection at the Ashmolean Museum
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- Update to the Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East & North Africa database
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- Book launch: English Landscapes & Identities
- Danebury Environs Project (PDFs)
- Social Status and Recycling in Bronze Age China
- Dr Jane Kershaw asks: why did the Vikings set sail for silver?
- Newton Fellowship Scheme call for Expressions of Interest
- Disrupting past narratives - Ruby-Anne Birin in The Conversation
- Made in Migration virtual exhibition
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- Intervals of low global sea level influenced the timing of eruptions from the Santorini volcano
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- The Green Book 2021-2022
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- The Indiana Jones Syndrome and the golden age of Chinese archaeology
- DPhil Research: Molly Masterson
- MSc In Archaeology - 2022-2023
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- Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography awarded the Waldo G. Leland Prize
- New RTI tool developed to document use-wear on bone tools
- Radiocarbon: A key tracer for studying Earth’s dynamo, climate system, carbon cycle, and Sun
- Dr Müge Ergun
- Changing social inequality from first farmers to early states in Southeast Asia
- Option papers MSc Archaeology
- Dr Mica Jones
- Prof Shadreck Chirikure reimagines the story of a momentous African civilisation
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- New study reveals insight into how our early ancestors dealt with climate change
- New study reveals insight into how our early ancestors dealt with climate change
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- Graduate Conference 2022
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- A Study on the vitalization of Digital Archaeology based on European case study analysis
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- Launching the Celtic Coin Index Digital specimen website
- Leverhulme Trust award for new project: Agencies of behavioural change in early modern humans in NW Africa
- Dr Anwen Cooper
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- Miranda Cresswell
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- Community Archaeology: Archeox
- Japanese Lake Sediment unlocks 150,000 years of history
- DPhil Research: Lachie Scarsbrook
- REF2021 results celebrate inclusivity and impact of Oxford's Archaeology submission
- A new ecological model to analyse agricultural disturbance throughout the Early Neolithic in SW Asia
- Major new international research reveals new evidence about when, where, and how chickens were domesticated
- Society for East Asian Archaeology, SEAA9
- Prestigious Tang prize for Oxford China expert Prof. Dame Jessica Rawson