Department of Archaeology
About this community
Promote archaeology as a discipline concerned with the entirety of human history - ranging in time from the Palaeolithic to the modern day, and in space from the Americas to the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia
The Department of Archaeology at Cambridge is the United Kingdom's first university Department of Archaeology.
At Cambridge we promote archaeology as a discipline concerned with the entirety of human history. Our scholars and students conduct research on topics ranging in time from the Palaeolithic to the modern day, and in space from the Americas to the UK and Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia.
We combine innovative theory and practice with active field programmes throughout the world to develop new research directions. We have laboratories for bioarchaeology, archaeogenetics, zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology and isotope analysis and provide for our students and researchers world-famous museum and library collections.
Sub-communities within this community
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CRIC Identity and Conflict
Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identities after Conflict -
Horse Palaeopathology
Palaeopathology and the origins and evolution of horse husbandry
Collections in this community
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Kilise Tepe 1994-98
Kilise Tepe Project -
Kilise Tepe 1994-98 - Dark Archive
Non-public materials relating to Kilise Tepe -
Nostratic Dictionary
Nostratic Dictionary by Aharon Dolgopolsky
Recent Submissions
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The material politics of houses at Çatalhöyük, 7000–6300 BCE
Archaeologists often treat past houses and households as social units—as places of stability within larger political dynamics. Houses are rendered as conservative objects, not places of profound change. This thesis adopts ... -
Reconstructing the use and conception of pharaonic domestic space in Nubia: geoarchaeological investigations at Amara West (~1300–1070BC)
The conquest of Upper Nubia (ancient Kush) by the New Kingdom Egyptian state around 1500BC instigated over four centuries of pharaonic control of the region. Over the course of this occupation, the state founded a number ... -
‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are’: A Multi-Tissue and Multi-Scalar Isotopic Study of Diet and Mobility in Early Medieval England and its European Neighbours
(2021-02-27)This thesis is concerned with the impact of socio-economic, political and environmental shifts on Early Medieval communities, specifically England and its links with continental Europe. I have utilised multi-tissue (bone, ...
