DAH Lab

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 Döpper 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.

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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!

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It's incredibly impactful, critical digital intervention that highlights a devastating time period in Peru and the ongoing human cost.

The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983-1985) by Diana Mogrovejo

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:

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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!

No Stone Unturned | Play on gd.games Play No Stone Unturned on gd.games, a game created with GDevelop, the free and easy game-making app.

🏆 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 ⛏️

We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media:

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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"

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Digital Lunches at the University of York

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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Digital Lunches at the University of York

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. 🏺

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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. 🏺

Zoom link here:

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Beth Jones on LinkedIn: Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to… Earlier this month, I attended a prestigious event at Buckingham Palace to celebrate a collaborative project between the Museum Of Oxford and Cheney…

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. 🏺

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New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc
Burcu Akşahin, 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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Archaeologist of the Year 2025 – Nominees - Current Archaeology Below are the three individuals nominated for 2025’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field. Voting closes on 10 February and all the wi...

🏺 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 🏺 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.

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 🏺 on Nov 29, 1pm GMT:

Esther Breithoff and Matthew Leonard will be presenting:

"Entrée 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!

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 🏺 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 “challenging assumptions on the reuse of digital archaeological data”. 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 🏺 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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Digital Lunches at the University of York

Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch!

This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺

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Undefined image of a megalith in a field, with trees in the background. It is difficult to discern details.

Join us on 25 October for York's Digital Lunch!

This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson:

"The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺

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Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller, smiling at the camera, with books in the background.

Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online:

Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”

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Dr Loes Opgenhaffen smiling, wearing a hat and taking a selfie at an archaeological excavation.

Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from @NWOFunding to conduct research on the 3D visualisation the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE).

Welcome to York, Loes!

Stephanie Black, standing amongst trees, smiling at the camera.

Digital Lunch, Oct 4, 1pm BST, with Stephanie Black, (Durham), on using Instagram & TikTok as an archaeology science communication "influencer" in the time of extensive pseudoarchaeology. 🏺

'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology'

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Digital Lunches at the University of York

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