Have you received your bone delivery? 👀 Our innovative Durham Archaeology team has been working hard these last few months, delivering packs of bones to students to facilitate temporary ‘living room labs’. Find out more: fal.cn/3egai

Lovely article about the work of Durham's Professor Paul Pettit features in the Spanish scientific magazine 'Atapuerca' this month! Durham University FUNDACION ATAPUERCA

The online exhibition 'Hidden Stories from the River Wear' is now open! Curated by MA Museum and Artefact students from Durham University, to reveal stories and objects from Durham’s past. Click to access👉🏼bit.ly/3qaS68S #hiddenstoriesfromtheriverwear #riverwear Gary Bankhead

Fantastic (and huge) bit of tracery found by Durham Archaeology students Tom and Nick today. @DUACE2021 is used to finding this stuff in our chapel trench, but more novel for the main trench. Needing the help of The Auckland Project’s gardens team to lift it out! Chris Gerrard

Fantastic seeing Durham Archaeology students at work this morning, with our very own Chris Gerrard at Bishop Auckland @DUACE2021 !

Check out this medieval green glaze sherd Addy found near our interesting stone plinths. This was taken a few days ago, and little does she know here that this discovery would change our whole interpretation of this area... @DUACE2021 The Auckland Project Durham Archaeology Chris Gerrard

So grateful to have been a part of the 2021 excavations at Auckland Castle @DUACE2021! The Auckland Project Chris Gerrard Durham Archaeology Loved every second of it (even in the 🌧!) and can’t wait to do some more archaeology soon 🤠

Have you seen the marvellous online exhibition ‘Hidden Stories from the River Wear - Exploring 1000 years of Durham History’ yet? It’s a collaboration between Durham Archaeology MA students @dumuseums & Gary Bankhead 👍🏽 See: stories.durham.ac.uk/riverwear/ #Durham #Archaeology #Museums

Find out more about the fantastic exhibition about the work of our alumni Gary Bankhead on finds from the River Wear - curated by students from MA Museum and Artefact Studies programme and @dumuseums thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/19431016.…

📢You can now watch our December lecture by Associate Prof. David Petts (David Petts) exploring ongoing research by Durham Archaeology & DigVentures Archaeology at the site of the early medieval monastery of Lindisfarne. #earlymedieval #northumbria #excavation 🎞️youtu.be/uNORm8ki4E4

Listen to our Prof Richard Hingley discussing 'Boudica, warrior queen' on the BBC World Service Forum programme, with Bridget Kendall, Prof Miranda Aldhouse-Green and Dr Jane Webster. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

This week we finally got our Durham Archaeology undergrads back in the isotope prep lab for their Advanced Skills Module practical preparing pig teeth for isotope analysis and they were brilliant - a joy to teach!

Our students have been involved in an incredible discovery!🔎 The first ever Late Bronze Age warrior stela in Iberia found in its original context was discovered in an excavation led by @martaguardamino this summer! To learn more about the discovery, follow the link below👇

Amazing pot! We have another creative night on the 16th of Feb so keep an eye out.

Having our RiverWearArchaeology late- & -post medieval objects on display in our local #museum of #archaeology is a fabulous milestone for our exciting project! Not sure which hashtag to use first: #proud #chuffed or #delighted 👏😊☺️ #diving #Durham #scuba x.com/diveintodurham…

Arc soc does horrible histories karaoke

Last night was our first Symposium of the year, a big thanks to Richard Hingley, @martaguardamino , Becky Gowland, and Qian Gao for their fascinating talks, as well as all of those who attended! Also thanks to Durham Archaeology for hosting our event!

Final @DUACE2021 Finds Washing session with #archaeology Durham Archaeology students for the term! We cleaned out the ear of this faceless 12th c. individual from the The Auckland Project Chapel trench. (A nice mortar-less pestle as well!) Chris Gerrard John Castling

It is with great sadness that we learnt of the death of Professor Dame Rosemary Cramp. Rosemary was hugely influential in archaeology and academia as the first female Professor at Durham, and was instrumental in the founding of the archaeology department. durham.ac.uk/news-events/la…