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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm headed to Southampton for a lecture, "Avebury and Worldbuilding" about the Avebury Papers. I'll discuss the incredible creative work that students & community members have produced & how this has shaped my thinking about archaeological data. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/avebu...

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Avebury Papers Talk: Avebury and World-building - Ticketing

A talk by Dr Colleen Morgan (University of York) exploring how archaeologists are utilising digital tools and approaches in the present in order to access and communicate the worlds of... Read more »

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Today we fired up our new immersive room for the first time and took a trip to Roman Bath! We are excited to integrate this new resource into our research and teaching. We made sure to get a setup that has immersive audio and projects on the floor as that's where most archaeology happens to be. 🏺

Three men looking at a full-room projection of the Roman baths at Bath. They look happy.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We have uploaded 38 (!) Digital Lunch lectures to our @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social YouTube account for your enjoyment. Check them out here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... In the meantime, Digital Lunches will resume in Spring 2027, after we've settled into the new lab.

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Digital Lunch - YouTube

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Check out "The Raven's Eye" at the Yorkshire Museum, an interactive display that recalls the birds eye view of Assassin's Creed to explore this Viking Great Army camp, based on archaeological data. 🏺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbV...

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The Raven's Eye: An interactive view of the camp of the Viking Great Army

YouTube video by Guy Schofield

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Join us for our last Digital Lunch of the Spring semester, 24 April, 1pm BST: Dr Loes Opgenhaffen "The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice" To get the zoom link, sign up below: forms.gle/4BsKkUiVLHKJ...

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Digital Lunches at the University of York

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Join us! Digital Lunch 20 March - Dr Zack Batist: "Investigating archaeological information commons as coordinated, collective and community-driven action" Friday, 1pm GMT in the DAH Lab or online, sign up for the link: forms.gle/B82bcAqaGjCc...

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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Huge THANK YOU to the inimitable @lucymoore.bsky.social for leading a workshop on editing Wikipedia for my Digital Archaeology module. Their handful of edits have already been viewed 4.8k times! We learned how AI draws heavily from Wikipedia and how it’s still the gold standard for outreach.

Lucy lecturing in front of a screen with Wikipedia on it.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

We are happy to welcome Maki Wardle, @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social PhD student to talk about their placement at the European Space Agency (re-scheduled from last autumn): Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 🏺 To sign up for the zoom link: forms.gle/G8htZwmrhY6V...

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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Fascinating talk from Dr. Kat Fennelly @katfennelly.bsky.social (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) at today’s digital archaeology Lunch, hosted by @dah-lab.bsky.social that, for me, really drove home the value of the History pillar to digital civics research. #archeologysky #DigitalSociety

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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. www.itv.com/watch/news/d...

Kevin Deng, speaking to the camera on the deck of the ship.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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: forms.gle/SNNGkXpmGtB8...

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

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.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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: forms.gle/GkbwzVZwBH3G...

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 Émilie Pagé-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

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Marta Diaz-Guardamino @martaguardamino.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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.)

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺 1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link: forms.gle/xQGo4rJwk5iG...

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"

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

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: forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...

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

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Leila A @leilaar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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...

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The Disappeared Students from Huamanga (1983-1985)

by Diana Mogrovejo

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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!

Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil, smiling, standing in front of beautiful flowers.

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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

🏆 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 ⛏️

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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.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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DAH Lab - Lectures

Dr Richard Carter

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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: forms.gle/qat71rvyPLRK...

A blue flight chart with words along the flight such as "bottom" and "help"

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

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" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz...

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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" Sign up for the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz... #archaeogaming

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

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. 🏺 To get the zoom link, sign up here: forms.gle/UipnxiX1vdjn...

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.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Thanks Reb! This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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Dr Tijm Lanjouw

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

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.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

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. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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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…

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

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. 🏺 www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

Several images from the Avebury Papers archive including photographs of the Avebury stones, drawings of a flint artefact, letters, team photographs, lists, and diaries.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

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: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...

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My First Few Months at the ADS – Archaeology Data Service

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025: archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa... His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.

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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...

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/77gL4FqfvK2V...

3D environment with objects and textures replicating a stone wall in Troy, with some photographs inset above the reconstruction.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/GYGe97ZTGbRU... +

A red sign with the following in French and English: Danger no entry Undetonated explosives. There are trees and grass in the background

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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Professor Mark Gillings

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Adam S. Green @adamsgreen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The future of archaeological survey!

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/KNBsB1SRnj8h...

A garage completely crammed full of stuff stacked on top of each other. You can see chairs, paintings, bins, and vases.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

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" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/PCg7QDpYmW68...

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.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

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" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/VkwAomw96kAX...

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

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" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...

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

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 07/10/2024

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” Sign up: forms.gle/wLH7Eu11mwYV...

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

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

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!

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

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

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' forms.gle/Nf6L9ABvZZW2...

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

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

We are very excited about our York Digital Lunch lineup for Autumn 2024. All talks are hybrid, on Fridays, at 1pm BST/GMT. The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺 To sign up, use the following link: forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...

27/9 James, Guy, Peter & Colleen - Digital Research in the Department of Archaeology at York
4/10 Stephanie Black - YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology
11/10 Piraye Hacigüzeller - Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same”
18/10 Akinbowale Akintayo - Mobilithics: Understanding human occupation of Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene
25/10 Gareth Beale & Elizabeth Robertson - The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall
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8/11 - Leah Brainerd - Ecological niche models of early rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan
15/11 Kristy-Lee Seaton - Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data.
22/11 Mark Gillings - Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect
29/11 - Matthew

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Greeting the new cohort of Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs today!

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Amazing work from York Archaeology undergraduate Georgia Smith, who presented at the CIfA & The Council for British Archaeology's Early Careers Special Interest Group. Her title: "A Child’s View of the Past: exploring public archaeology through the lens of the Avebury Papers" youtu.be/_m_v5BwDEpk

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A Child's View of the Past: exploring public archaeology through the lens of the Avebury Papers

In 2024 The Council for British Archaeology and CIfA's Early Careers Special Interest Group ran an online conference for early career archaeologists and heri...

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Congratulations to University of York Digital Heritage MSc Beth Jones on her new role as the Community Engagement and Exhibitions Officer at the Museum of Oxford!

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

We were honoured to welcome Dr Daniel Kumah, a Lecturer from the University of Ghana as our Visiting Researcher to the DAH Lab. Dr Kumah participated in last week's Heritage Jam, met with our students, and we discussed future collaboration in support of digital archaeology and heritage in Ghana.

Dr Daniel Kumah working with Catherine Robins at the Heritage Jam. They are both looking at a computer screen and Daniel is discussing what is on the screen.

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

So happy to welcome Alex Brandsen to York last week. He led a student annotation workshop to train a LLM for archaeology. He also gave a lecture, "Digging in Documents: using Deep Learning to create a search engine for Dutch archaeology" Watch: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

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DAH Lab - Lectures

Dr Sam Leggett

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab @dah-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Headed to #heritagejam2024, a collaborative effort between Harald Fredheim's BOCCAHD network and The Avebury Papers. This year's prompt is: "Archiving as Direct Action"

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