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At a repatriation ceremony held on Saturday, 29 February 2020, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge handed over the iwi kūpuna (ancestral remains) of 21 native Hawaiian individuals to representatives from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The ancestral remains, collected in the mid-to-late 19 th century...

Dr Jody Joy, Senior Curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, has been announced as one of the four successful recipients of the second round of the Headley Fellowships with Art Fund

Discovery at ‘flower burial' site could unravel mystery of Neanderthal death rites

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Made in the autumn of 2019 by filmmaker Nick Edwards, this short film “Ouse-side Barrows and Fishing Weirs: Palaeochannel Archaeology at Over/Needingworth” follows the Cambridge Archaeological Unit’s (CAU) excavations in Hanson Aggregates’ Needingworth Quarry. The land is being restored as an RSPB bird reserve, and is...

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Janice Stargardt, Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Professorial Research Fellow in Asian Historical Archaeology & Geography (Department of Geography) and Senior Fellow of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

Medieval Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus ivory tanked after the introduction of elephant tusks into European markets in the 1200s.

Congratulations to Professor Lord Colin Renfrew and Dr Michael Boyd who have been awarded a 2019 Field Discovery Award by the Shanghai Archaeology Forum of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Analysis by Dr Martin Worthington on nine lines of the Gilgamesh Flood story shows duplicitous language and word play by the Babylonian god Ea.

A new portrait of Dorothy Garrod, Disney Professor of Archaeology 1939-1952, by artist Sara Lavelle has been officially unveiled at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.