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Details showing graffiti stickers at a Crossing point
Details showing graffiti stickers at a Crossing point

Postgraduate Dissertation Prize Success (SPMA)

We are delighted to announce that Claire Moore (MA Cultural Heritage Management) has won the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Postgraduate Dissertation Prize 2021!
Hope Workshop

Organising Hope Workshop - 27 April 2023

A student-led workshop to self-organise and take action to decolonise and democratise archaeology!
WRoCAH

Working Stone and Making Places in Neolithic Wales

We're delighted to invite applications for a fully-funded PhD supported by WRoCAH. The deadline for applications is 8 March 2023.
A photo of skeleton SK3870 on site at the excavations at York Barbican. Credit: On Site Archaeology.
A photo of skeleton SK3870 on site at the excavations at York Barbican. Credit: On Site Archaeology.

Mysterious skeleton revealed to be that of unusual Lady Anchoress of York Barbican

The rare and unusual life of an anchoress, a woman who devoted her life to prayer while living in seclusion, has been unearthed by the University of Sheffield and Oxford Archaeology, thanks to a skeletal collection now held at the University.
Roots and Futures

Celebrating how our research changes lives

Our partnerships support placemaking and social resilience through cultural heritage.
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A summer of Sheffield heritage, designed by you

Residents of Sheffield have the opportunity to shape a summer of heritage decision-making in the city thanks to a new project at the University of Sheffield.

Dr Efthymia Nikita

Dr Efthymia Nikita is awarded the Dan David Prize 2022

We are delighted and proud to announce that Dr Efthymia Nikita, a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow in Archaeology at Sheffield, is among the first cohort of winners of the new Dan David Prize 2022 - the "world's largest history prize".
A close up of hands using a trowel to uncover soil at a dig site.

Searching for evidence of 'witchcraft links' at Creswell Crags

Archaeologists from the Department of Archaeology joined the BBC Digging for Britain team to understand the lives of people who occupied a village near the famous caves.
An ariel view of Sheffield city centre

AHRC Funding award for Sheffield heritage project

Dr Elizabeth Craig-Atkins has been awarded funding from the AHRC for a project focusing on enabling, empowering, and embedding the voices of diverse communities more explicitly in Sheffield’s current heritage stratagy.
Decorated Lion Dagger

Lion Bones Are Popping Up in Some Very Unexpected Places

For the last few decades more and more lion bones have been dug up in Greece. Read more in this article which features Emeritus Professor Paul Halstead.

| Published by The Atlantic
A jawbone from a medieval-era horse (University of Exeter/PA)

Medieval warhorses no bigger than modern-day ponies, research finds

Academics from our Department have worked with researchers at the University of Exeter and others to uncover that medieval warhorses were really small by today's standards - so small, in fact, that they would be classed as ponies instead of horses!

| Published by the Independent