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Heritage science reveals hidden details in our collections! Baskerville Punches uses Reflective Transformation Imaging (RTI) to study 1750s typographic punches, uncovering secrets of one of the world's most influential typefaces. 🔗 loom.ly/PgOtdms 📷 © Mark Box

This morning, some of our researchers took part in a McDonald Institute knapping workshop focused on microlithic technologies with brilliant guidance from expert John Lord! Thanks to Rob Foley for organising this fantastic opportunity and to King's College, Cambridge for kindly hosting us

Join us this Thursday for ‘Understanding long-term spatio-temporal ecological changes in degraded peatlands to inform restoration’ with Dr Matthew Adeleye from Cambridge Geography 📅 Thursday 20 February 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info and how to join online: bit.ly/garrod2025

Our 2024 site in Bedfordshire had a large enclosure ditch around Roundhouse One with a distinctive sequence of fills. The inside of the enclosure was divided into “sub-enclosures”, and it was difficult to see if these had been present from the start or were added over time.

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 How were Ancient Egyptian coffins made? Plaster-like materials hold the answers 👉 arch.cam.ac.uk/news/how-were-…

Join us this Thursday for ‘Prehistoric Lakeshore Settlements of the Apline Region and the Balkans Six Millennia of Human History Preserved in Lakes and Wetlands’ with Prof Albert Hafner from Universität Bern 📅 Thursday 27 February 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 More info: bit.ly/garrod2025

Join us this Thursday for ‘‘Rewilding’ later prehistory: Archaeological wildlife and its role in current nature recovery’ with Dr Anwen Cooper from Oxford School of Archaeology 📅 Thursday 6 March 2025 ⏰ 4pm 🔗 More info and how to join online in bio 👉 More info: bit.ly/garrod2025

Join us this Thursday for ‘‘Where Land and Waters Meet’: 10,000 years of ‘Wildscape’ human eco-dynamics and implications for sustainability and land use change’ with Prof Nicki Whitehouse from University of Glasgow 📅 Thursday 13 March 2025 ⏰ 4pm 👉 bit.ly/garrod2025

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 A New Origin Proposed for Humanities’ First Stone Technology 👉 arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-origi… Images: Michelle R. Bebber & Metin I. Eren

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 New mathematical modelling approach provides insight into the pivotal role of demography on the spread of farming 👉 arch.cam.ac.uk/news/new-mathe… Images: Oreto García-Puchol

Come and see us at London Anthropology Day! 📅 Friday 25 April 2025 ⏲️ 10:00-16:30 📍 Senate House, London 👉 See the website for the schedule and booking information: londonanthropologyday.co.uk

The McDonald Institute invites applications for the fourth annual Fellowship in archaeology aimed at candidates of Black Identity or Heritage. Hear from Dr Sahal Abdi, current Fellow at the McDonald Institute. 📅 Closing date: 2 May 2025 👉 jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50741/

PhD studentship in Egyptian archaeometallurgy, between Cambridge Archaeology and British Museum, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council. Please help us spread the word! Great opportunity to join two amazing teams and learn while working on unique materials. Deadline 30 April jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50964

We are offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Egyptian Archaeometallurgy in collaboration with the British Museum, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme More information: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50964/ 📸 The Trustees of the British Museum

Can archaeology shape decolonial futures? In this editorial a team of Cambridge researchers reflect on disambiguation, interaction, indigeneity, memory, practice and imagination for doing so! Read the Guest Editorial in Antiquity here: doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2…

📣 PUBLISHED OPEN ACCESS 📣 Dr Julia Montes-Landa, Prof Marcos Martinón Torres and colleagues propose a new approach to explain technological choices in bronze-making in prehistoric NE Iberia in the Journal of Archaeological Science 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.…