University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department

🔥Hot off the press: Extensive dog diversity existed thousands of years before humans began selective breeding 🐩

“These results highlight the deep history of our relationship with dogs,” said Dr Carly Ameen “Diversity among dogs is a legacy of thousands of years of coevolution with human societies”

Join us for the Movember Special History Talk! 🧔To Beard or Not to Beard: The History of Facial Hair in Britain 1650-1900 with Dr Alun Withey

📅 Wednesday 19 November
🕰️ Doors open at 6pm, start at 18:15
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📚 News from the world of peace and economic history ☮️ Dr Marc-William Palen’s Pax 'Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World' has just received the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History🏆 for groundbreaking work that rethinks how free trade once carried hopes for ending empire and war🌍

Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter Searching for an academic job? Explore this Associate Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

How scientists are cracking the secrets of the world’s oldest tattoos Turns out, ancient body art is a lot more common than we once thought—and it's providing historians with new ways of understanding our ancestors.

Congratulations to Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, one of our PhD by publication students, who successfully passed his viva yesterday. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos & was recently featured in National Geographic magazine: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

🐾 Explore 'Do Not Feed the Animals?' where science meets art to reveal the surprising stories behind why we feed animals, from home to zoo.

Experience vibrant artworks, hands-on research and reflect on your own animal encounters!🦉

📍Queens Building, Streatham campus
📆Until 12 December, all welcome

Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach by Joseph Hirst, Joy Singarayer, Umberto Lombardo and Francis Mayle

Staff member Joe Hirst has a new paper out! 'Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach', is published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: www.jasss.org/28/4/5.html

A round up of recent @materialwills.bsky.social project news below 👇

Including recent @zooniverse.bsky.social milestones, project meetings, and new blog posts!

#earlymodern #history #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social

A group of students stand on a moor, with Ollie pointing things out to them

A group of student pose around a prehistoric cairn, in sunshine

Students on an earthwork slope with a church tower in the background

Lydford Castle, with Ollie speaking to all the students.

Last week some of our first year students got to head out into Dartmoor and see some archaeology. They visited Merrivale, and also Lydford Saxon earthworks and castle/prison and were very glad the rain held off!

🌿🔍 From ancient soils to modern crime scenes, we are connecting the past and present in surprising new ways!

See how forensic ecology is stepping into the spotlight => news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Dr Todd Gray MBE, local historian and honorary appointment in our department, has brought together stories of Devon life during the Second World War, after years of painstaking research🔍

📖 New book: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Thanks to Nada and Anthony for making us all feel so welcome and teaching us, and to Katas Historical Makes and Cass for their help!

Days 2 and 3 of our Experimental Archaeology fieldtrip to the Ancient Technology Centre saw our students preparing cow hides to make leather, thatching, wooden spoon and bowl making with expert Martin Hazell, chalk cob wall building and flint knapping! Rounded off with a Viking style historic meal 😀

Our Masters students taking a module in Experimental Archaeology visited Stonehenge yesterday to learn about reconstructed Neolithic houses and a new project to build a large Neolithic education building, based on timber structure Durrington 68 😍 Also starring Ed's Late Neolithic decorated hard hat👷

Are you around London this Monday (27 Oct)? Do come and say hello 👋 to Laura Evis and Hajnalka Herold at the University Archaeology day! Lots of interesting stuff to see and hear, all welcome 😊

🎫 Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/10-...

👉 Livestream bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Prof Rippon at the podium

Photo of the medal - which reads British Academy John Coles Medal - Landscape Archaeology

Yesterday, Prof. Stephen Rippon was invited to London to be presented the prestigious British Academy Landscape Archaeology Medal, awarded for distinguished achievement in that field of archaeology. Many congratulations on this much deserved honour!

Are you considering a PhD? 🤔 Join our 'Masterclass - PhD proposal and funding 101'

📅Wednesday 3 December
🕰️ 10am or 4pm
📍ZOOM

All welcome!

🎫 Book your *free* ticket:

• 10am: fixr.co/event/master...
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A scene of a historic kitchen, where two women, dressed in 17th century clothes, prepare food.

Come and see the house at St Nicholas Priory, Exeter brought to life in 1602, exploring a 'New history of women's work'.

Sunday 26th October
11am - 3pm

Historical research by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin.

The West country premiere of award-winning documentary film 📽️ A CANTERBURY TALE Albert Figg and the Battle for Hill 112 🪖 followed by Q&A 🎤

📅Wednesday 12 Nov 19.15
📍Exeter Alumni Auditorium, Forum
🎫 www.thehill112.com/a_canterbury... £10 Suggested donation*

* Students free: fixr.co/event/a-cant...

🛰️ Ancient hunters left their mark - and it’s only now visible from space! Satellite images show vast South American 'desert kites' once used to trap game across the Andes.

A glimpse into how past societies shaped whole landscapes for survival 🏜️🐾 Read more here 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A group of seven people standing in a meeting room sporting a variety of bandages on heads, knees, elbows etc. They are still smiling though!

Another group of nine bandaged individuals, all looking very happy to be injured.

Last week most archaeology staff were retrained in First Aid skills, keeping us updated for another three years. Sadly many injuries were sustained during the session!

Join us at the *free* FUTURES Festival (11–12 Oct Exeter) for inspiring events celebrating history, archaeology, science & culture!

With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab

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A woodland setting with trees in the background. A line of police tape is strung across the foreground, and a skeleton and rope can be seen beyond.

Has Halloween come early? No, last week some of our 3rd year archaeology and forensics students carried out a crime scene recovery exercise in our woodland on campus.

Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜

Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday.

👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm
👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online
👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

💎Do you know about the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum on Streatham Campus?

They have a really cool exhibition* on that celebrates cinema’s monstrous icons 🦖🐉👾

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*free entry daily, on until Christmas

A piece of one of Britain’s most iconic trees is now revealing hidden stories🌳

Adrián Oyaneder Rodriguez and Julia Hopkin are using cutting-edge experimental techniques to uncover new insights from the felled Sycamore Gap tree.

👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

When a historian swaps dusty archives for TikTok tricks 🎬🧐Dr Alun Withey stepped out of the lecture theatre and into the world of influencers in a brand-new BBC Radio 4 series 🎙✨ How did he fare?

Curious to see how history goes viral?

👉 Read more here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

How do psychiatry and world history collide? 🧠🌍 Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson just received a €1.5m ERC grant to explore how mental health and humanitarianism shaped lives during some of the twentieth century’s greatest crises.

👉 Read the full story here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Who was your supervisor please?

🔎A forgotten household object, a spark of curiosity… and suddenly we’ve got fresh insight into queer domestic life in the Georgian era 🌈 Historian and actor Dr Anthony Delaney completed his PhD in 2022 and has now published his book 'Queer Georgians'

Read more 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...