@dah-lab.bsky.social
The Digital Archaeology & Heritage Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. https://linktr.ee/dahlab Director: Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Co-Director: James Taylor
Kevin Deng, speaking to the camera on the deck of the ship.
Immensely proud of @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Digital Archaeology MSc Kevin Deng who has been featured on ITV for his work on Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. This is part of his job as a digital archaeology specialist with the National Museum of the Royal Navy.
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Our Digital Lunch this week is Dr Katherine Fennelly, "Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom"
We're in the DAH lab at the King's Manor @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social at 1pm, or online. Sign up:
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We are excited for two talks this week! First up is Dr Monika Stobiecka, "Contemporary art and the recasting of digital archaeology" Unfortunately @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social only.
Dr Stobiecka is visiting us here for a week, giving two lectures and a host of staff and student meetings.
20 February Katherine Fennelly Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom 27 February Jeff Sanders Carved in Stone 6 March Tom Schofield AI Heritage Imaginaries: Critical Fabulation against Machinic Hallucination 13 March Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 20 March Zack Batist Investigating archaeological information commons as coordinated, collective and community-driven action 27 March Γmilie PagΓ©-Perron Access and "Digital Repatriation" of Cuneiform Heritage 17 April Peter Cobb Data for Data's Sake in Archaeology 24 April Loes Opgenhaffen The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice
Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form:
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Digital Lunch alert! You can register below.
I will be delivering a seminar with Archie Robson and Katina Lillios titled "Exploring #Communities of Practice through the Application of #RTI: The Case of #Iberian #Neolithic and #Copper Age Plaques"
(King's Manor G/60 or online at 1pm on 5th Dec.)
A screenshot of two video game characters, one appears to be a ghost, holding their arms in a circle. There is a dialogue box that says "joy ahead"
14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social
Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play πΊ
1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link:
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26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York 3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people 10 October Stephanie DΓΆpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App 17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations 24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 31 October off off 7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR 14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS 28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research 5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA
We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research.
Sign up:
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Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York!
Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology!
maiacost.eu
#DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction
It's incredibly impactful, critical digital intervention that highlights a devastating time period in Peru and the ongoing human cost.
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The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983 - 1985) is an ArcGIS storymap documenting Peru's Internal Armed Conflict by York Digital MSc graduate Diana Mogrovejo, now a PhD student at Michigan State University:
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9930...
Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil, smiling, standing in front of beautiful flowers.
Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!
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π CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research βοΈ
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We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media:
sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...
A blue flight chart with words along the flight such as "bottom" and "help"
Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online:
Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling"
To get the zoom link, please sign up here:
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FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen:
"Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present"
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FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present:
"Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games"
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#archaeogaming
Data hierarchy demonstrating how to organise different smells in history and archaeology. There are example smells like "orange flower water" which connects to smells and smell transformations such as gloves.
FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. πΊ
To get the zoom link, sign up here:
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Thanks Reb!
This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website:
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Six examples of faces carved into stone. They are of varied styles. There is a scale bar at the bottom which demonstrates they're all >10cm.
DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT:
Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project
Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. πΊ
Zoom link here:
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Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate.
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Several images from the Avebury Papers archive including photographs of the Avebury stones, drawings of a flint artefact, letters, team photographs, lists, and diaries.
CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. πΊ
www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...
New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc
Burcu AkΕahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree:
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πΊ ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025:
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His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.
3D environment with objects and textures replicating a stone wall in Troy, with some photographs inset above the reconstruction.
Join us for Digital Lunch πΊ on Dec 6, 1pm GMT:
Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting:
"The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D"
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Ecologies of violence: heritage and conflict in more-than-human worlds", this talk introduces work on (post)conflict heritage ecologies and discuss the process of 3D scanning a First World War "Red Zone" - an area too geographically and ecologically annihilated and contaminated for human occupation.
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A red sign with the following in French and English: Danger no entry Undetonated explosives. There are trees and grass in the background
Join us for Digital Lunch πΊ on Nov 29, 1pm GMT:
Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:
"EntrΓ©e interdite: recording the involuntary heritage of Vimy's Red Zones"
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If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures:
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The future of archaeological survey!
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A garage completely crammed full of stuff stacked on top of each other. You can see chairs, paintings, bins, and vases.
Join us for Digital Lunch πΊ on Nov 22, 1pm GMT:
Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting:
"Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect"
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This image has been generated in Canva using AI Prompt βchallenging assumptions on the reuse of digital archaeological dataβ. It shows a few artefacts, a calculator, a camera, and a few unknown objects surrounding a tray with an unknown object inside.
Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology πΊ PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data:
"Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data"
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