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We have been rising fast in the QS global subject league tables. Archaeology at Exeter is now 34th in the World.
25/03/2026

We have been rising fast in the QS global subject league tables. Archaeology at Exeter is now 34th in the World.

Merry Christmas!
22/12/2025

Merry Christmas!

Our 'Medieval Warhorse' book has also been nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year. Additionally, Oliver Crei...
02/12/2025

Our 'Medieval Warhorse' book has also been nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year. Additionally, Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' research project has been nominated in the project category. Winners to be decided by public vote.

Please vote here:

Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

A great turnout to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, r...
28/11/2025

A great turnout to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. Part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all are welcome!

Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news. This BBC article covers both Carly Ameen's morphomet...
15/11/2025

Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news. This BBC article covers both Carly Ameen's morphometric work and another genetic paper, out in Science the same day, involving Alan Outram, that showed how prehistoric people migrated together with their dogs.

A new study suggests their physical transformation began much earlier than we previously thought.

Just out in the journal Science, Carly Ameen and colleagues show that there was extensive dog diversity millennia before...
14/11/2025

Just out in the journal Science, Carly Ameen and colleagues show that there was extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices.

A groundbreaking archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterises them today. By applying cutting-edge shape analysis to hundreds of archaeological specimens spanning tens of thousands of

We have a fixed-term teaching post available in the fields of human osteology, forensic anthropology and/or zooarchaeolo...
05/11/2025

We have a fixed-term teaching post available in the fields of human osteology, forensic anthropology and/or zooarchaeology.

An academic position as a Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

Congratulations Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, a PhD by publication student based in the US, who successfully passed his viva yest...
05/11/2025

Congratulations Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, a PhD by publication student based in the US, who successfully passed his viva yesterday. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos, and his PhD was titled ‘Investigating the methods and material culture of tattooing in archaeological societies’. His work was recently featured in National Geographic magazine and he runs a hugely popular Instagram account which is well-worth following.

31/10/2025

Congrats to our post-doc Joe Hirst on his new paper out today: 'Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach', in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation:
https://www.jasss.org/JASSS.html

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