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Department of Archaeology

 

Emily Watt

Research Assistant, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Oscar Lozada

PhD student in Biological Anthropology

Margot Serra

PhD student in Biological Anthropology

Read more at: EHSCAN-Exploring Early Holocene Saharan Cultural Adaptation and Social Networks through socio-ecological inferential modelling

EHSCAN-Exploring Early Holocene Saharan Cultural Adaptation and Social Networks through socio-ecological inferential modelling

EHSCAN is a Horizon-MSCA-2022-PF scheme Fellowship Funded by UKRI and hosted by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge. 


John Rowan

Dr John Rowan

Assistant Professor in Human Evolution

Read more at: The Transition to Agriculture at the edges of Eurasia ~ Neolithisation in the British Isles and the Jomon-Yayoi transition ~

The Transition to Agriculture at the edges of Eurasia ~ Neolithisation in the British Isles and the Jomon-Yayoi transition ~

This two-day symposium, sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, Daiwa Foundation, and the European Research Council, will present the latest advances on the transition to farming in the British Isles and the Japanese archipelago as well as the key outputs of the ENCOUNTER project. A total of 19 speakers will discuss different...


Giuseppe Castelli

Chief Research Laboratory Technician (Palaeoanthropology Laboratory)

Vaneshree Vidyarthi

Research Assistant, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

PhD student

Dr Alexander Weide

Assistant Professor in Environmental Archaeology

Read more at: An early Iron Age Sarmatian female elite burial at Taksay-1, western Kazakhstan

An early Iron Age Sarmatian female elite burial at Taksay-1, western Kazakhstan

The Taksay-1 Kurgan Complex is located on the territory of the Terekty district of the West Kazakhstan Region and consists of six kurgans. In 2012, an archaeological team from the West Kazakhstan Local History Museum, led by Dr. Yana Lukpanova, discovered and excavated a unique elite burial of a woman from a privileged...