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
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
Congratulations to Aaron Deter-Wolf, on passing his viva for a PhD by publication. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos. His work was recently featured in National Geographic magazine.
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://t.co/G0YwaH2OUJ
A new forensic ecology consultancy is being launched by the University of Exeter. Based within Archaeology, ApEx Forensics will draw upon academic expertise across a broad range of fields to provide one of the first commercial services of its kind within in UK Higher Education.
At Nietoperzowa Cave, in Poland, our students are progressing well, working down in 10cm spits into Pleistocene layers. Recent finds include a huge cave bear tooth, as well as cave bear bones and a range of lithic flakes. #prehistory#Palaeolithic#cave
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
Update from our team in Poland! Trench 3 is continuing at pace. Finds include cave bear teeth, a range of animal bones, pottery and Neolithic flints. The cave was used by hiberbating bears in winter and Upper Palaeolithic humans. #archaeology#Palaeolithic#uniofexeter#Poland
Dr Alex Pryor is leading one of our Advanced Fieldschools at Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland, excavating early Upper Palaeolithic layers. Our team is working alongside Jarek Wilczyński from ISEA in Kraków: https://t.co/dcpFUWYR7E
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.