The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab

Happy to welcome Dr Marjory Da Costa-Abreu, Associate Professor in Ethical Artificial Intelligence to the Wolfson DAH Lab today for a training workshop for staff, students, and heritage practitioners on Ethical Uses of AI in Museums and the BRAID toolkit.

I'm headed to Southampton for a lecture, "Avebury and Worldbuilding" about the Avebury Papers. I'll discuss the incredible creative work that students & community members have produced & how this has shaped my thinking about archaeological data. southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/avebu...

Today we fired up our new immersive room for the first time and took a trip to Roman Bath! We are excited to integrate this new resource into our research and teaching. We made sure to get a setup that has immersive audio and projects on the floor as that's where most archaeology happens to be. 🏺

We have uploaded 38 (!) Digital Lunch lectures to our @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social YouTube account for your enjoyment. Check them out here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... In the meantime, Digital Lunches will resume in Spring 2027, after we've settled into the new lab.

Join us for our last Digital Lunch of the Spring semester, 24 April, 1pm BST: Dr Loes Opgenhaffen "The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice" To get the zoom link, sign up below: forms.gle/4BsKkUiVLHKJ...

Join us! Digital Lunch 20 March - Dr Zack Batist: "Investigating archaeological information commons as coordinated, collective and community-driven action" Friday, 1pm GMT in the DAH Lab or online, sign up for the link: forms.gle/B82bcAqaGjCc...

Huge THANK YOU to the inimitable @lucymoore.bsky.social for leading a workshop on editing Wikipedia for my Digital Archaeology module. Their handful of edits have already been viewed 4.8k times! We learned how AI draws heavily from Wikipedia and how it’s still the gold standard for outreach.

Fascinating talk from Dr. Kat Fennelly @katfennelly.bsky.social (@sheffielduni.bsky.social) at today’s digital archaeology Lunch, hosted by @dah-lab.bsky.social that, for me, really drove home the value of the History pillar to digital civics research. #archeologysky #DigitalSociety

Immensely proud of @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social Digital Archaeology MSc Kevin Deng who has been featured on ITV for his work on Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory. This is part of his job as a digital archaeology specialist with the National Museum of the Royal Navy. www.itv.com/watch/news/d...

Our Digital Lunch this week is Dr Katherine Fennelly, "Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom" We're in the DAH lab at the King's Manor @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social at 1pm, or online. Sign up: forms.gle/SNNGkXpmGtB8...

We are excited for two talks this week! First up is Dr Monika Stobiecka, "Contemporary art and the recasting of digital archaeology" Unfortunately @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social only. Dr Stobiecka is visiting us here for a week, giving two lectures and a host of staff and student meetings.

Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form: forms.gle/GkbwzVZwBH3G...

Digital Lunch alert! You can register below. I will be delivering a seminar with Archie Robson and Katina Lillios titled "Exploring #Communities of Practice through the Application of #RTI: The Case of #Iberian #Neolithic and #Copper Age Plaques" (King's Manor G/60 or online at 1pm on 5th Dec.)

14 November: Digital Lunch with @florencesn.bsky.social Title: (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 🏺 1pm GMT, sign up to get the zoom link: forms.gle/xQGo4rJwk5iG...

We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research. Sign up: forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...

Excited to kick off the MAIA Training School at Kings Manor, York! Hosted by @ads-update.bsky.social and @dah-lab.bsky.social, bringing together archaeologists & computer scientists to explore AI applications in archaeology! maiacost.eu #DigitalArchaeology #AI #MAIA #CostAction

Congratulations to incoming Digital Heritage MSc Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil for her success in receiving a prestigious Charles Wallace India Trust scholarship to fund her degree. We look forward to welcoming Athira to York!

🏆 CONGRATULATIONS to @louisearchaeology.bsky.social @dah-lab.bsky.social for creating No Stone Left Unturned, a game which re-purposes digitised archival materials from the Avebury Papers Project to create public engagement for archaeological research ⛏️

We've posted this excellent talk that explored practice-based research, art, landscape, and digital media: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

Please join us for a lecture from Dr Richard Carter (UoY, School of ACT) 2 May, 1pm BST in the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab (King's Manor G/60) or online: Title: "Sensing / Knowing / Storytelling" To get the zoom link, please sign up here: forms.gle/qat71rvyPLRK...

FRIDAY 25 April 1pm BST, join us for a Digital Lunch talk from Rubicon postdoctoral scholar Dr Loes Opgenhaffen: "Under Construction. Impactful technologies and persisting traditions in the past and present" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz...

FRIDAY 21 March, 1pm GMT: Edwin Evans-Thirlwell of Rock Paper Shotgun will present: "Poeticising history through the tricks, hackwork and peculiarity of video games" Sign up for the zoom link: forms.gle/5BAnEf6KNtxz... #archaeogaming

FRIDAY 28 Feb, 1pm GMT - Digital Lunch is teaming up with TETRARCHS for our next seminar: "Smelling the past through big data" with Dr. Marieke van Erp. 🏺 To get the zoom link, sign up here: forms.gle/UipnxiX1vdjn...

Thanks Reb! This was an absolute banger of a talk, and is now available on our DAH Lab lectures website: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

DIGITAL LUNCH! 21 Feb, 1pm GMT: Dr Reb Ellis-Haken - Preliminary results of the Leverhulme Funded "Cults of the Head?" Project Reb has analysed <100 depictions of human heads from Dean Hall in Gloucestershire using advanced digital imaging techniques. 🏺 Zoom link here: forms.gle/qr74FJgHuuuC...

Congratulations to Digital Heritage MSc grad Beth Jones who was recognised for her work at the Museum of Oxford for facilitating an activity for Holocaust Memorial Day. She created a project with local young people to speak out against hate. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

CONGRATULATIONS to Dr Fran Allfrey for receiving the UK Wikimedian of the Year award! The award cited her publication on medieval wikipedia with Lucy Moore and Richard Nevell and her tremendous work using wikidata as part of the Avebury Papers project. 🏺 www.aveburypapers.org/avebury-pape...

New blog post from York Digital Archaeology MSc Burcu Akşahin, who just started a new job as a Digital Archives Assistant at the @ads-update.bsky.social after her student placement she conducted as part of her degree: archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/my-firs...

🏺 ADS @ads-update.bsky.social founder & digital archaeology legend Prof Julian Richards has been nominated as Archaeologist of the year 2025: archaeology.co.uk/awards/archa... His contributions to our understanding of how archaeological data is collected, preserved & disseminated are immense.

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Dec 6, 1pm GMT: Tijm Lanjouw will be presenting: "The archaeology of archaeology 3D: The use of historical photos to reconstruct the excavation process at Troy, Turkey, in 3D" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/77gL4FqfvK2V...

If you missed Mark's talk live, it's posted here with all the other amazing Digital Lunch lectures: sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/d...

The future of archaeological survey!

Join us for Digital Lunch 🏺 on Nov 22, 1pm GMT: Professor Mark Gillings will be presenting: "Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/KNBsB1SRnj8h...

Please join us at 1pm GMT on 15 November for York Archaeology 🏺 PhD student KL Seaton's talk on reuse of digital archaeological data: "Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data" Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/PCg7QDpYmW68...

Join us on 8 November for York's Digital Lunch! This week we have Leah Brainerd: "Rice Farming & the Environment: using ecological niche modelling to investigate the advent of rice agriculture in Yayoi Japan" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/VkwAomw96kAX...

Join us on 25 October for York's Digital Lunch! This week we have Gareth Beale and Elizabeth Robertson: "The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall" 🏺 Sign up to receive the zoom link: forms.gle/NnjfBYwYh6fL...

Digital Lunch, 11 October, 1pm BST: Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller (Antwerp) in the DAH Lab, G/60 & online: Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same” Sign up: forms.gle/wLH7Eu11mwYV...

Congratulations to Dr Loes Opgenhaffen for her success in securing the prestigious Rubicon fellowship from @NWOFunding to conduct research on the 3D visualisation the organisation of building sites in Archaic Satricum (ca. 600-480 BCE). Welcome to York, Loes!

Digital Lunch, Oct 4, 1pm BST, with Stephanie Black, (Durham), on using Instagram & TikTok as an archaeology science communication "influencer" in the time of extensive pseudoarchaeology. 🏺 'YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology' forms.gle/Nf6L9ABvZZW2...

New link: forms.gle/svPHSmmBxcuJ...

We are very excited about our York Digital Lunch lineup for Autumn 2024. All talks are hybrid, on Fridays, at 1pm BST/GMT. The range of digital archaeology and heritage topics demonstrates the diversity of the field. 🏺 To sign up, use the following link: forms.gle/X5XYnGfjyhcn...

Greeting the new cohort of Digital Archaeology and Digital Heritage MScs today!