Postgraduate Research Conference: 24th and 25th January 2018
We warmly invite all PhD students, MA students, and students in their final year of undergraduate study to the annual Archaeology Postgraduate Research Conference, to be held on 24th-25th January in...
View ArticleCongratulations to our January Graduates!
A number of our students graduated at the Higher Degrees Ceremony on the 12th January 2018. As a department we are phenomenally proud of all of our students and of all the hard work they have put in to...
View ArticleWelcome to Dr. Colin Duval
The Department of Archaeology welcomes Dr. Colin Duval, who has been awarded the Fyssen Foundation fellowship. Colin is a French zooarchaeologist whose research focuses on economic transition between...
View ArticleNew publication by our research fellow Dr. Louise Iles
A new open-access publication "Forging networks and mixing ores: rethinking the social landscapes of iron metallurgy" has just been published by Louise Iles, our Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, in...
View ArticleUndergraduate Opportunities in Archaeology through Workplace Learning Programme
The workplace learning module is a great chance for third year undergraduate students to gain professional experience working with local and national heritage organisations. While undertaking their...
View ArticleSociety of American Archaeology Annual Meeting: Washington, DC 11-15 April 2018!
Staff and students from the Archaeology Department at the University of Sheffield will be attending North America’s premier Archaeology conference, the annual meeting of the Society for American...
View ArticleUndergraduate Fieldwork and Placement Bursaries 2018
At the Department of Archaeology we offer our undergraduate students fieldwork bursaries to help fund their participation in archaeological fieldwork or work experience within the heritage sector....
View ArticleFunded PhD opportunity with Sheffield Archaeology: ‘Water takes land:...
Congratulations to Dr Bob Johnston, who has been awarded a doctoral studentship to investigate the landscape histories and human stories connected with selected flooded valleys in Northern England. The...
View ArticleInfancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World
Maureen Carroll, Professor of Roman Archaeology at Sheffield, has published her latest book Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World: 'A Fragment of Time'. This Oxford University Press volume...
View ArticleThe Image Speaks 2018: Archaeology PhD students participate in a...
Two PhD students in the Department of Archaeology have participated in this year's The Image Speaks, a collaborative exhibition with photographer Andy Brown. Emily La Trobe-Bateman and Ian McAfee each...
View ArticleSheffield Archaeology shines at the SAAs
Staff and students from the Archaeology Department at the University of Sheffield attended North America’s premier Archaeology conference, the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in...
View ArticleSheffield Archaeology awarded its second Athena SWAN Bronze Award
The Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to recognise Higher Education institutions' commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM)....
View ArticleMaternitas in Classical Antiquity
A conference in celebration of the Sheffield Centre for the Archaeology of Childhood. On Thursday 17 May the British School at Rome will host an international conference‘Maternitas in Classical...
View ArticleSheffield Archaeology goes Royal!
During a recent royal visit to Greece, Professor John Bennet, currently Director of the British School at Athens, and Sheffield Archaeology alumna Marianna Vardinoyianni, met with The Prince of Wales...
View Article2018 Undergraduate Fieldwork Bursaries
Every year the department provides a number of fieldwork and placement bursaries for our undergraduate students. The bursaries enable students to gain experience in the heritage sector through...
View ArticleDream digs, specialist courses and conferences worldwide with Petrie Watson...
Congratulations to this year’s Petrie Watson Exhibition recipients!Every year the Faculty of Arts and Humanities awards Petrie Watson Exhibition funding to current students. These awards, of up to...
View ArticleSheffield Archaeology staff and students present their research in Mexico
This spring Sheffield Archaeology researchers attended the 42nd International Symposium in Archaeometry (ISA) in Mérida, the capital of the Mexican state of Yucatán, Mexico. This conference attracts...
View ArticleInvestigating Human-Bird interactions in the past An international...
Birds have played a prominent role in human history; people have relied on birds for their subsistence but have also been interested and fascinated by them.The 9th Bird Working Group Meeting, The...
View ArticleCongratulations to the Class of 2017-18!
Once again graduation season is upon us. That special time of the year when the jubilation of success is mixed with the sadness of parting company.
View ArticleThe Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) - Palermo, Sicily
The 7th edition of the Postgraduate ZooArchaeology Forum (PZAF) took place last week (27th-29th June) in Palermo, Sicily. A conference run by and for postgraduate students and early-career...
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