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Register now for EAMENA's British Academy & Arcadia 'Mapping World Archaeology' Conference on 7th - 9th December 2026 at Worcester College, Oxford

24 June 2026
Dr Rick Schulting

Professor Rick Schulting awarded major European Research Council Advanced Grant for 'Stocking the Past'

23 June 2026
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Oldest strains of plague caused deadly outbreaks 5,500 years ago

17 June 2026
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Congratulations to Professor Rick Schulting and his co-authors, awarded the Ben Cullen prize for their paper titled: 'The darker angels of our nature'

03 June 2026

Research Spotlight Films

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Videos in our labs

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Dr Rachel Wood & her team welcome you into our Radiocarbon labs & discuss some of their research projects & commercial work. 

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Watch the journey of a sample through our Radiocarbon lab

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Watch as Dr Daneille McLean extracts microscopic ash particles (tephra) from sedimentary cores in our Tephrachronology labs. 

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A short filming of one of our stable isotope lab practicals