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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Visible Tools, Invisible Crafts: An analysis of textiles tools, textile production, and textile organisation along the south coast of Iron Age Britain
Textile production was an essential element of society in prehistory, supplying people with clothing, furnishings, and utilitarian items like sails, straps, and sacking. The fragility of textiles means few examples of ... -
Human behavioural dynamics in island rainforests: evidence from the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua
During the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (over the past c. 100,000 years), Homo sapiens dispersed into a wide array of novel, challenging environments. Remarkable adaptive flexibility encouraged humans to improvise social ... -
Emblematic representation on ancient Egyptian apotropaic wands
(Archaeological Review from Cambridge, 2021-11-23)
