DNA from Viking cod bones suggests 1,000 years of European fish trade
New research using DNA from the fish bone remains of Viking-era meals reveals that north Norwegians have been transporting – and possibly trading – Arctic cod into mainland Europe for a millennium.
Archaeologist among four Cambridge academics awarded British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships
Cameron Petrie awarded Mid-Career Fellowship by the British Academy for 2017-18.
Mystery of 8,500-year-old copper making event revealed through materials science
Stone Age metallurgical ‘slag’ from Çatalhöyük - once thought to be the earliest known example of copper smelting in western Eurasia - now re-identified as incidentally fired green copper pigment.
The Tell-Tale Genome: genetic and cultural studies shed light on the spread of Eurasian folktales
A new study has used for the first time worldwide genomic data to understand how the traditional folktales in Europe and Asia spread across the continent.
Finding the Lost Rivers of the Indus Civilisation from Space
Innovative new work from the ERC-funded TwoRains project reconstructs more than 8,000km of relic rivers, creating a step change in our current knowledge of the Ancient Indus hydrology and the environmental conditions in which this Bronze Age civilisation operated.
£400,000 Leverhulme Trust grant for Archaeology of Pollination project
A collaborative team from the University of Cambridge and the University of Bristol, have been awarded a 4-year Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant for the project ‘Crops, pollinators and people: the long-term history of a critical symbiosis’.
