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Dating the Dark Ages
Dr Jenny Crangle, an Honorary Research Fellow of Sheffield Archaeology, is returning to Sheffield and our new research lab facilities as part of a collaborative research project. She and her colleagues will be working with animal bone finds from the Roman site of Wroxeter, in order to select samples that can be used for scientific dating. The result of this project will shed important light on the later periods of occupation at the site and help us to understand when the ‘dark ages’ began.
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First traces of Structures at the Sheffield Castle excavation
Exciting news from the Castle Hill! The team from Wessex Archaeology, led by former Sheffield student Ashley Tuck, have just uncovered the first signs of Sheffield’s medieval castle. And we are very proud that this evidence was uncovered by current Sheffield student, and local lad, James Chapman.
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Sheffield’s Castle Excavations
Sheffield’s Castle Excavations
We’re officially excited, and so is the media!
Last week, a major excavation project began on the site of Sheffield’s castle. This archaeological project, under the direction of Wessex Archaeology, is part of a collaboration, including the University of Sheffield, Sheffield City Council and the Friends of Sheffield Castle, to regenerate the city’s Castlegate Quarter.
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Uncovering Sheffield's Castle
Uncovering Sheffield’s Castle
The excavations of Sheffield’s forgotten medieval past have started!
Archaeologists are working to uncover the remains of Sheffield Castle as part of an urban
regeneration project. This city-wide collaboration - including the Department of Archaeology - is using Sheffield’s forgotten medieval heritage to inspire future regeneration. We are pleased that Sheffield Archaeology staff and students are participating in this important excavation of Sheffield Castle. -
Rawmarsh Community School Archaeology Discovery Day, 13 July 2018
On Friday 13 July 2018, a group of 16 budding young Archaeologists from Rawmarsh Community School visited the University to take part in a range of activities that showcased the diverse and exciting fields of study within Archaeology at Sheffield.
Funded by HeppSY+, the collaborative outreach project delivered by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, the event included workshops in Zooarchaeology, Photogrammetry and 3D Modelling, Medieval Pottery, and Osteoarchaeology, and the visiting students had the opportunity to meet current staff, undergraduate Student Ambassadors and PhD students. -
The Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) - Palermo, Sicily
The 7th edition of the Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) took place last week (27th-29th June) in Palermo, Sicily. A conference run by and for postgraduate students and early-career professionals in the field of zooarchaeology, this year the event was organised by Sheffield students Veronica Aniceti, Matteo Bormetti and Mauro Rizzetto.
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Congratulations to the Class of 2017-18!
Once again graduation season is upon us. That special time of the year when the jubilation of success is mixed with the sadness of parting company.
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Investigating Human-Bird interactions in the past An international Archaeology conference at Sheffield
Birds have played a prominent role in human history; people have relied on birds for their subsistence but have also been interested and fascinated by them.
The 9th Bird Working Group Meeting, The archaeology of human-bird interactions. A conference in honour of Dale Serjeantson , took place at the University of Sheffield from 8-11 June, 2018. The meeting was organised by members of the Zooarchaeology team in the Department of Archaeology, in collaboration with Historic England and Cardiff University.
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Sheffield Archaeology staff and students present their research in Mexico
This spring Sheffield Archaeology researchers attended the 42nd International Symposium in Archaeometry (ISA) in Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, Mexico. This conference attracts participants from all over the world and hosted the most recent academic developments in archaeological science.
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Dream digs, specialist courses and conferences worldwide with Petrie Watson Exhibitions funding
Congratulations to this year’s Petrie Watson Exhibition recipients!
Every year the Faculty of Arts and Humanities awards Petrie Watson Exhibition funding to current students. These awards, of up to £750, are intended to support students for projects which enhance or complement their programme of study. This year a bunch of Sheffield Archaeology students – undergraduates, masters and PhD – have been awarded funding to support their participation in excavations abroad, specialist courses and important conferences.
Undergraduate recipients are Jayne Burland and Cindy Ventura. Cindy used her Petrie Watson award to present her undergraduate dissertation at the prestigious International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Bonn, Germany. Cindy’s dissertation focused on the particularly original topic in Classical Archaeology, namely the potential of dental microwear analysis to identify dietary and consequently social differentiations in Archaic to Roman Boeotia, central Greece.
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2018 Undergraduate Fieldwork Bursaries
Every year the department provides a number of fieldwork and placement bursaries for our undergraduate students. The bursaries enable students to gain experience in the heritage sector through participation in archaeological fieldwork or other related activities. We are very pleased to announce that this year seven of our students have received funding through the UG Fieldwork Bursary scheme.
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Sheffield Archaeology goes Royal!
During a recent royal visit to Greece, Professor John Bennet, currently Director of the British School at Athens, and Sheffield Archaeology alumna Marianna Vardinoyianni, met with The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall at the BSA Knossos Research Centre.
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Maternitas in Classical Antiquity
A conference in celebration of the Sheffield Centre for the Archaeology of Childhood. On Thursday 17 May the British School at Rome will host an international conference
‘Maternitas in Classical Antiquity’, sponsored by the Department of Archaeology (University of Sheffield) and the Society for the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP). -
Sheffield Archaeology awarded its second Athena SWAN Bronze Award
The Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to recognise Higher Education institutions' commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM). The success of this initiative in subject areas where women were traditionally underrepresented, particularly among more senior roles, led to expansion to arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law (AHSSBL) in 2015.
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Sheffield Archaeology shines at the SAAs
Staff and students from the Archaeology Department at the University of Sheffield attended North America’s premier Archaeology conference, the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Washington, DC 11-15 April 2018.