Alan Outram

Professor of Archaeological Science

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

Halberton Villa fieldschool progressing well, in a bit of heatwave. One student combining head shade and hi-vis very effectively!

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

Our fieldschool at a Roman villa in Halberton, Devon, has gotten underway. As well as excavation, we are training the students in various survey methods and finds processing. An early exciting find has been an intaglio with what looks like the figure of a winged victory on it.

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

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

[Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse]

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. You can vote on winners here:
https://t.co/1XOVSLDVgl

[Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse]

Medieval Warhorse is featured as one of the Books of the Year in the December issue of @HistoryToday

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

A great turnout on 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, which welcome all! #mammoths

[HumAnE Bioarch @HumAnE_Arch]

Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news...
https://t.co/vdxneDoXM6

[Alan Outram @OutramAK]

Very pleased to have made a contribution to both papers about ancient dogs just released in Science.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

As human groups migrated and settled across Holocene Eurasia, dogs often traveled with them and were sometimes traded among populations, researchers report in Science. The results reveal the integral role these animals played in culture and exchange.

📄: https://t.co/28jpml6P4p

[HumAnE Bioarch @HumAnE_Arch]

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

https://t.co/fwReMgVzsP

[HumAnE Bioarch @HumAnE_Arch]

Very pleased with our new zooarchaeology reference collection and workroom!

[HumAnE Bioarch @HumAnE_Arch]

Check out the website of our @ahrcpress and @dfg_public "Pastoralists Lost" project, involving Alan Outram, Alex Pryor and Elena Sandoval in Exeter and Cheryl Makarewicz in Kiel. #prehistory #kazakhstan #pastoralism #Horses
https://t.co/WJemJSql2S

[Alan Outram @OutramAK]

Got a foreword by yours truly...

[Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse]

Here's a new edited volume called 'Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History', edited by our research fellow Katherine Kanne and our PhD alumnae Helene Benkert and Camille Vo Van Qui. It contains some warhorse-related chapters and much more besides.
https://t.co/YzmIlreKzc

[Alan Outram @OutramAK]

History repeats itself...me with an aurochs horn core outside a yurt in the field in Kazakhstan this year, and 26 years ago!

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

Part way through our excavations at Borly Neolithic site in NE Kazakhstan, as part of our AHRC/DFG PASTLOST project, with some of our students and some Kazakh high school pupils.

[Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse]

Our Medieval Warhorse project also features on the cover of the August edition of BBC History Magazine...

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

Great to see the results of our previous Devon fieldschool at Ipplepen in print! 548 pages of detailed research. Well done to Prof. Stephen Rippon and team.

[Alan Outram @OutramAK]

First day on site for students at our Columbjohn, Killerton fieldschool. Cleaning up the machine dug trenches. These are my two teams 🙂

[Exeter Archaeology @UofEArchaeology]

We're back at Columbjohn! Returning to find more of the Elizabethan manor house. Trenches being opened up today, students on site from tomorrow. What will we discover this year? Watch this space. @NTKillerton @NatTrustArch

[Medieval Warhorse @AHRC_Warhorse]

We have a Medieval Warhorse feature article in the latest edition of Current Archaeology magazine, and have the front cover! @CurrentArchaeo

https://t.co/TdK0Luj3Hh

[Alan Outram @OutramAK]

Thanks to everybody who attended the Warhorse book launch, in person or online!