HumAnE Bioarch

We have been rising fast in the QS global subject league tables. Archaeology at Exeter is now 34th in the World.

Our 'Medieval Warhorse' book has also been nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year. Additionally, Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' research project has been nominated in the project category. You can vote on winners here: archaeology.co.uk/vote

Medieval Warhorse is featured as one of the Books of the Year in the December issue of @HistoryToday

A great turnout on to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. Part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, which welcome all! #mammoths

Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news... bbc.com/news/articles/…

Very pleased to have made a contribution to both papers about ancient dogs just released in Science.

Just out in the journal Science, Carly Ameen and colleagues show that there was extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices. #dogs #Archaeology news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-hum…

We have a fixed-term teaching post available in the fields of human osteology, forensic anthropology and/or zooarchaeology. jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/ass…

Congratulations to Aaron Deter-Wolf, on passing his viva for a PhD by publication. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos. His work was recently featured in National Geographic magazine.

Congrats to our post-doc Joe Hirst on his new paper out today: 'Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach', in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: jasss.org/JASSS.html

A new forensic ecology consultancy is being launched by the University of Exeter. Based within Archaeology, ApEx Forensics will draw upon academic expertise across a broad range of fields to provide one of the first commercial services of its kind within in UK Higher Education.

Very pleased with our new zooarchaeology reference collection and workroom!

At Nietoperzowa Cave, in Poland, our students are progressing well, working down in 10cm spits into Pleistocene layers. Recent finds include a huge cave bear tooth, as well as cave bear bones and a range of lithic flakes. #prehistory #Palaeolithic #cave

Check out the website of our @ahrcpress and @dfg_public "Pastoralists Lost" project, involving Alan Outram, Alex Pryor and Elena Sandoval in Exeter and Cheryl Makarewicz in Kiel. #prehistory #kazakhstan #pastoralism #Horses pastlost.webnode.page

Here's a new edited volume called 'Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History', edited by our research fellow Katherine Kanne and our PhD alumnae Helene Benkert and Camille Vo Van Qui. It contains some warhorse-related chapters and much more besides. sidestone.com/books/harnessi…

Update from our team in Poland! Trench 3 is continuing at pace. Finds include cave bear teeth, a range of animal bones, pottery and Neolithic flints. The cave was used by hiberbating bears in winter and Upper Palaeolithic humans. #archaeology #Palaeolithic #uniofexeter #Poland

Dr Alex Pryor is leading one of our Advanced Fieldschools at Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland, excavating early Upper Palaeolithic layers. Our team is working alongside Jarek Wilczyński from ISEA in Kraków:  isez.pan.krakow.pl/en/index.html

History repeats itself...me with an aurochs horn core outside a yurt in the field in Kazakhstan this year, and 26 years ago!

Part way through our excavations at Borly Neolithic site in NE Kazakhstan, as part of our AHRC/DFG PASTLOST project, with some of our students and some Kazakh high school pupils.

Our Medieval Warhorse project also features on the cover of the August edition of BBC History Magazine...