News about Archaeology

Plague emerges from Stone Age graves

Ancient DNA from bones and teeth hints at a role of the plague in Stone Age population collapse

Dietary diversity of Denisovans on the Tibetan Plateau

New research sheds light on Denisovan behaviour and indicates how adaptable they were to the harsh and variable environment of the Tibetan Plateau.

Archaeologists to contribute to major new research project on ancient DNA

Professor Eske Willerslev has been awarded a grant of up to DKK 585 million by Novo Nordisk Foundation and the Wellcome Trust to study ancient environmental DNA. Researchers from the Near Eastern Archaeology section wil…

Nubian Women in Aswan

In November 2023, I stayed in Aswan to document archaeological textiles from Gebel Adda kept at the Nubia Museum. I was working there with two colleagues from the University of Warsaw. Every day, on our way to the…

International Workshop Develops New Network in Caribbean Archaeology

Find out what attendees achieved at 'The Future of Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology' workshop between 11th and 14th March 2024.

The sensory archaeology of garments. New approaches to the body in ancient Sudan and Nubia

Associate professor in archaeology Elsa Yvanez will be giving a talk in Cairo at the Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan / Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale (SFDAS / IFAO).

Copenhagen Hosts Workshop on Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology

ITSS Postdoc and colleagues from Aarhus and Leiden are this week hosting an international hybrid workshop with 30 attendees.

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…

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…