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23/12/2025

We were delighted that Prof Zoë Crossland gave the Thirty-Seventh McDonald Annual Lecture.

For those of you who couldn’t join us live, the talk is now on our YouTube channel!

🔗 Click link in bio to watch the talk

22/12/2025

💭 Which PhD programme is for you? A PhD in Archaeology or a PhD in Biological Anthropology?

🏛️ Hear from staff and students about the breadth of PhD research that takes place in the Department of Archaeology.

📅 Funding deadline is 7 January 2026

👉 Information about the courses and how to apply: arch.cam.ac.uk/prospective-students/prospective-phds

This video does not feature genuine human remains, instead casts are used.

Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this video is accurate at the time it was uploaded, changes are likely to occur. It is therefore very important that you check the University and College websites for any updates before you apply for the course by visiting www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk and again before accepting any offer to study at the University. Where there is a difference between the contents of this video and these websites, the contents of the website take precedence and represent the basis on which we intend to deliver our educational services to you.

Professor Paul Lane, Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa, reflects on his ca...
21/12/2025

Professor Paul Lane, Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History & Archaeology of Africa, reflects on his career and time at Cambridge.

“I was very, very fortunate to be here at a time of real intellectual ferment - it was an extremely intellectually stimulating time, and as a consequence of that, also a lot of very close friendships formed.”

https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/a-journey-to-african-archaeology-paul-lane

📣 Work with us! 📣We are delighted to share this opportunity with you all. The Board of Electors are seeking candidates f...
19/12/2025

📣 Work with us! 📣

We are delighted to share this opportunity with you all. The Board of Electors are seeking candidates for the Professorship of Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professorship of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa.

Candidates will have an outstanding research record of international stature in African archaeology and deep history, broadly construed as an interdisciplinary field. They will demonstrate a continent-wide vision of this field and its major themes, and a broad chronological range of engagement, as well as an understanding of the place of Africa and African archaeology in the wider global perspective. They will demonstrate expertise in at least two of the major regions within Africa, necessarily including sub-Saharan Africa, as well as extensive African fieldwork experience. They will have the commitment, knowledge, connections, enthusiasm and leadership qualities to build both African archaeology in Cambridge and, collaboratively, archaeology within Africa, through intellectually innovative research, fieldwork and other project development, team building, education, outreach, capacity building and engagement with issues such as heritage, sustainability and the politics of the past.

📅 Closing date: 5 January
👉 More info and how to apply: https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/jennifer-ward-oppenheimer-professorship-of-the-deep-history-archaeology-of-africa-jd48042

A new study by Dr Bolaji Owoseni examines potsherds from herringbone pavements at two medieval northern Yorùbáland sites...
15/12/2025

A new study by Dr Bolaji Owoseni examines potsherds from herringbone pavements at two medieval northern Yorùbáland sites: Ilorin City and Erinle Town.

Dr Owoseni also ran a two-day community engagement event in Ilorin, Nigeria which successfully brought together over 200 participants, including university scholars, traditional leaders, museum professionals, teachers and secondary school students.

👉 Read more: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/pottery-pavements-and-heritage-preservation-northern-yorubaland-nigeria

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣Beneath the City: Tarquinia through the lens of geoarchaeologyA new study published in Archaeol...
12/12/2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

Beneath the City: Tarquinia through the lens of geoarchaeology

A new study published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences led by Cambridge researchers uncovers how the city of Tarquinia developed over the first millennium BC.

👉 https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/beneath-the-city-tarquinia

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’Humans are far closer to mee...
10/12/2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣

Humans rank between meerkats and beavers in monogamy ‘league table’

Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, according to a new Department of Archaeology study that includes a table ranking monogamy rates in various species of mammal.

Previous evolutionary research has used fossil records and anthropological fieldwork to infer human sexual selection. While in other species, researchers have conducted long-term observations of animal societies and used paternity tests to study mating systems.

Now, a new approach by Dr Mark Dyble analyses the proportions of full versus half-siblings in a host of species, as well as several human populations throughout history, as a measure for monogamy.

👉 https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/humans-rank-between-meerkats-and-beavers-in-monogamy-league-table

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We are delighted to share that Dr Angela Trentacoste has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for...
09/12/2025

We are delighted to share that Dr Angela Trentacoste has been awarded a European Research Council Consolidator Grant for her project FEROCI project - Feeding Roman Italy: Continuities and Innovations in animal production from urbanisation to empire.

FEROCI will investigate agricultural and pastoral production in ancient Italy across a dynamic period of urbanisation and political expansion c. 600 BC–AD 200.

👉 Find out more: https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-angela-trentacoste-awarded-erc-consolidator-grant

📣 Work with us! 📣STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains is looking to appoint tw...
08/12/2025

📣 Work with us! 📣

STEPS: Biomechanical simulations of hominin locomotion across complex terrains is looking to appoint two research associates/assistants.

STEPS is a five year (2025-2030) interdisciplinary project combining human evolution, evolutionary biomechanics, and comparative anatomy to address the selective pressures that produced the human-like body plan. STEPS aims to understand how differences in anatomy influenced locomotor strategies and efficiency in human evolution. The project will combine experimental studies of human movement with computational models to explore how body form and environmental challenges shaped the evolution of bipedalism.

✨Research Associate/Assistant in Human Evolutionary Anatomy
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-associateassistant-in-human-evolutionary-anatomy-fixed-term-jc48080

✨Research Assistant/Associate in Evolutionary Biomechanics
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/research-assistantassociate-in-evolutionary-biomechanics-fixed-term-jc48078

📅 Closing dates: 12 January 2026

03/12/2025

We are looking forward to meeting many of you very soon for Undergraduate interviews.

To help you prepare, Dr Susanne Hakenbeck is here to share some tips!

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