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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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