News about Archaeology

A new joint UCPH School of Archaeology and Viking Ship Museum summer school course: Introduction to Maritime Archaeology

Introduction to Maritime Archaeology through summer school

New study traces African origins of St Helena’s Liberated Africans

Chemical signatures reveal the diverse African origins of people displaced by the transatlantic slave trade.

Call for abstracts: Modeller i arkæologien – fra data til fortolkning

CAA Danmark inviterer til indsendelse af abstracts til det årlige CAA-seminar 17. marts 2027 med fokus på modeller og modellering i arkæologien.

Knowledge, Technology and Craftsmanship

In early May, 34 archaeology students from the course ‘Knowledge, Technology and Craft’ at the University of Copenhagen worked on reconstructing a "hole belt" at Sagnlandet Lejre.

Let’s Dig Deeper Podcast

School of Archaeology joins forces with student and podcast host Zeenat Haroon.

Stone age population collapse revealed by DNA study in France

DNA analyses of ancient skeletons show that a Stone Age population in present-day France collapsed around 5,000 years ago and was replaced by people migrating from southern Europe, according to a new international study…

Stone age population collapse revealed by DNA study in France

DNA analyses of ancient skeletons show that a Stone Age population in present-day France collapsed around 5,000 years ago and was replaced by people migrating from southern Europe, according to a new international study…

4,000-year-old clay tablets inscribed with magical spells… and beer tabs

Around 5,200 years ago, people from ancient cultures in Iraq and Syria began carving characters onto clay tablets. This new system of communication gradually made it possible to develop advanced urban societies with…

International postdoctoral grant to study Arctic human–animal relationships

PhD student Emma Vitale has been awarded an International Postdoctoral Grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark to investigate how traditional technologies have shaped relationships between humans and animals across…

New study maps where wheat, barley and rye grew before the first farmers found them

Using advanced machine-learning and climate models, researchers have shown that the ancestors of crops like wheat, barley, and rye probably were much less widespread in the Middle East 12,000 years ago than previously…

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

Archaeologists use AI to create prehistoric video game

Archaeologists from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Bergen have used AI and free digital tools to create a dynamic and educational video game about the Stone Age. According to the researchers, the new…

New edited volume: Ethics in Caribbean Archaeology

IN THE SAME SEA Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke and her co-editors Eduardo Herrera Malatesta and Maaike de Waal (Leiden University) will publish an edited volume in January 2026 with the University Press of Florida.

New Publication: Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology

In this article members of the Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (www.cocah.net), including IN THE SAME SEA Postdoctoral Fellow Felicia Fricke, put forward practical recommendations for helping to solve th…

Archaeologists uncover 5,000-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan

A research team led by the University of Copenhagen has uncovered a remarkable Early Bronze Age ritual landscape at Murayghat in Jordan. The discovery can shed new light on how ancient communities responded to social an…

Archaeologists uncover 5,500-year-old ceremonial site in Jordan

A research team led by the University of Copenhagen has uncovered a remarkable Early Bronze Age ritual landscape at Murayghat in Jordan. The discovery can shed new light on how ancient communities responded to social an…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery

Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teotihuacan has been…

Spot on PRIVACY scholars: Asta Mønsted and Natalie Körner

From the left: Natalie Körner and Asta Mønsted, discussing their interdisciplinary and collaborative project on privacy among the Greenlandic Inuit during the 19th century. Archaeologist Asta Mønsted and architectural…

Arkæologer bruger AI til at skabe forhistorisk computerspil

Arkæologer fra Københavns Universitet og Bergens Universitet har ved hjælp af AI og gratis værktøjer selv udviklet et levende og lærerigt computerspil om stenalderen. Den nye teknologi, der ikke kræver særlig teknisk…

School of Archaeology seed funding 2025-26

The intention of the seed funding is to support and strengthen collaboration within the framework of the UCPH School of Archaeology, and therefore it should be explained in the application how this will occur. Priority…

New publication explores the role of funerary textiles in burial rituals

Our researchers Elsa Yvanez and Magdalena Wozniak has just published an anthology called "Funerary Textiles in Situ: Towards a Better Method for the Study of Textile-Related Burial Practices”.

Archaeologists visit Lund

Before the summer break, a group of archaeologists from the Saxo Institute and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies visited Lund. The trip was planned and organised by Eva Andersson Strand, UCPH and…