News about Archaeology

Birds have been adapting to human activity for millennia

Roughly 14,500 to 10,500 years ago, in the transition from the last glacial period, Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic peoples harvesting vegetation from the wetlands of eastern Jordan created a habitat for birds that would…

100 forhistoriske skeletter viser, hvordan Danmark blev et landbrugsland

Genetiske undersøgelser af 100 skeletter fra Danmarks fortid dokumenterer, at landbruget blev indført for 5.900 år siden, da agerdyrkere vandrede ind i landet sydfra og udkonkurrerede den lokale jæger-samler-befolkning.…

New chart-topping Italian podcast “L'invasione” on the Indo-Europeans – featuring Birgit Rasmussen

Birgit Rasmussen has been interviewed for the chart-toping Italian podcast L'invasione on Proto-Indo-European and the Indoeuropeans.

Arkæologer finder 12.000 år gammelt perleværksted i Jordan

Specialiseret håndværksarbejde bliver normalt forbundet med fremkomsten af bysamfund. Men i et nyt studie viser forskere fra Københavns Universitet, at et stenalderfolk i Jordan var i stand til at masseproducere perler…

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Gives Keynote Speech

Felicia Fricke gave the keynote speech at this year's Reuvensdagen, the national archaeology conference of the Netherlands. Click to watch the recording.

Emerging Researchers’ Network

The UCPH School of Archaeology’s (SoA) Emerging Researchers’ Network (ERN) connects early career researchers (currently around 40 members) working within archaeology in the broadest definition at the University of…

eLetter to Science: Archaeolinguistic anachronisms in the Indo-European phylogeny of Heggarty et al. 2023

Reserachers from Roots of Europe have responded to the conclusions of Heggarty et al. 2023 in an eLetter to Science.

Copenhagen Conversations – On Time

Talk on 'time' with Joel Robbins, Cambridge, and Francois Hartog, EHESS, Paris.

أزياء السودان، البداية والتكوين

العام الاولى مشروع أزياء السودان – علم آثار الملبس على طول نهر النيل الأوسط يصل الآن نهاية عامه الأول.

The making of Fashioning Sudan

The project Fashioning Sudan – archaeology of dress along the Middle Nile is now reaching the very end of its first year.

Eva Andersson Strand appointed Professor of Archaeology

Eva Andersson Strand, director of the Centre for Textile Research, can now, as of 1 October, officially hold the title of Professor of archaeology.

ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow to Give Keynote Speech at Reuvensdagen 2023

Felicia Fricke will be giving this year's keynote speech at the national archaeology conference in the Netherlands on Thursday 16th November.

New funding for Save the Loom project

The Danish Loom from the 17th to 20th century – how can it be described, documented and preserved?

New honorary doctors change our view of the past

At the university's traditional annual celebration, Årsfesten, in November, the new honorary doctors at UCPH are appointed. This year, the Faculty of Humanities is appointing two of the 11 new honorary doctors.

2.900 år gammel mursten gemte på DNA fra oldtiden

I et nyt studie i Scientific Reports viser forskere, at det er muligt at udtrække forhistorisk DNA af en 2.900 år gammel mursten. Den nye analysemetode vil kunne give klimaforskere, biologer og arkæologer et unikt…

Modern humans arrived in Southeast Asia 40,000 years earlier than we thought

An international research team jointly lead by Globe Institute show one of the earliest modern humans migrations out of Africa.

Launch of the UCPH School of Archaeology

The UCPH School of Archaeology is a collaboration across three faculties to build bridges between the archaeological disciplines at the University of Copenhagen. On 9 May, the school was officially launched with speeche…

Launch of the UCPH School of Archaeology

The UCPH School of Archaeology is a collaboration across three faculties to build bridges between the archaeological disciplines at the University of Copenhagen. On 9 May, the school was officially launched with speeche…

New book: The Indo-European Puzzle Revisited

New book edited by Kristian Kristiansen, Guus Kroonen and Eske Willerslev.

Årringe og grundstof viser forskere vej til 400 år gammelt tømmers oprindelsessted

Grundstoffet strontium kan sammen med årringsanalyser vise, hvor træ, som blev brugt til at bygge huse i Danmark for 400 år siden, stammer fra. Det demonstrerer to forskere fra Københavns Universitet i et nyt studie, de…

ITSS Postdoc Assists Grenada National Museum

At the beginning of March 2023, ITSS Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke helped the GNM with the curation and analysis of human remains.

New Publication: Archaeology and Social Justice in Island Worlds

ITSS Postdoc Felicia Fricke has just published an opinion piece with colleague Rachel Hoerman (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa).

Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber

Isotopes of the chemical element strontium, along with tree-ring analysis, point researchers to the origins of timber used to build houses in Denmark 400 years ago, shows a University of Copenhagen study published in th…

UCPH School of Archaeology kick-off retreat

On 28 November 2023 a total of 50 archaeologists from the Humanities, Theology, Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH headed to Comwell Borupgaard in Snekkersten for a two-day retreat.