The Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab

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The Wolfson Digital Archaeology & Heritage Lab in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. https://linktr.ee/dahlab Director: Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Co-Director: James Taylor @archaeo-james.bsky.social

Kevin Deng, speaking to the camera on the deck of the ship.
20 February Katherine Fennelly Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom 27 February Jeff Sanders Carved in Stone 6 March Tom Schofield AI Heritage Imaginaries: Critical Fabulation against Machinic Hallucination 13 March Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 20 March Zack Batist Investigating archaeological information commons as coordinated, collective and community-driven action 27 March Émilie Pagé-Perron Access and "Digital Repatriation" of Cuneiform Heritage 17 April Peter Cobb Data for Data's Sake in Archaeology 24 April Loes Opgenhaffen The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice
A screenshot of two video game characters, one appears to be a ghost, holding their arms in a circle. There is a dialogue box that says "joy ahead"
26 September James, Colleen, Peter, Guy Current digital research at York 3 October Ahmed El Antably Nubian Chronicles: You've been talking to the wrong people 10 October Stephanie Döpper Co-creating smartphone tours at archaeological sites with the ArchaeoTrail App 17 October Mariana Lopez Sound Heritage: methods and considerations 24 October Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 31 October off off 7 November Despoina Sampatakou Cultural objects in reality and virtuality: a comparative study in XR 14 November Florence Smith Nicholls (Not) Dying of Anticipation: Video Game Archaeologies of Contemporary Play 21 November ADS What's new at ADS/HSDS 28 November Mark Altaweel AI for palaeoclimate research 5 December Marta Diaz-Guardamino TBA
Athira Theruvath Pilathottathil, smiling, standing in front of beautiful flowers.
A blue flight chart with words along the flight such as "bottom" and "help"
Data hierarchy demonstrating how to organise different smells in history and archaeology. There are example smells like "orange flower water" which connects to smells and smell transformations such as gloves.
Six examples of faces carved into stone. They are of varied styles. There is a scale bar at the bottom which demonstrates they're all >10cm.
Several images from the Avebury Papers archive including photographs of the Avebury stones, drawings of a flint artefact, letters, team photographs, lists, and diaries.
3D environment with objects and textures replicating a stone wall in Troy, with some photographs inset above the reconstruction.
A red sign with the following in French and English: Danger no entry Undetonated explosives. There are trees and grass in the background
A garage completely crammed full of stuff stacked on top of each other. You can see chairs, paintings, bins, and vases.
This image has been generated in Canva using AI Prompt “challenging assumptions on the reuse of digital archaeological data”. It shows a few artefacts, a calculator, a camera, and a few unknown objects surrounding a tray with an unknown object inside.
Undefined image of a megalith in a field, with trees in the background. It is difficult to discern details.
Dr Piraye Hacigüzeller, smiling at the camera, with books in the background.
Dr Loes Opgenhaffen smiling, wearing a hat and taking a selfie at an archaeological excavation.
Stephanie Black, standing amongst trees, smiling at the camera.
27/9 James, Guy, Peter & Colleen - Digital Research in the Department of Archaeology at York 4/10 Stephanie Black - YOU'RE NOT FUNNNN! New Forms of Digital Public Archaeology 11/10 Piraye Hacigüzeller - Language Matters: Language Acts, Materialisation of Typological Placehoods, and a Datafied Future Risking “More of the Same” 18/10 Akinbowale Akintayo - Mobilithics: Understanding human occupation of Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Pleistocene 25/10 Gareth Beale & Elizabeth Robertson - The Storied Land: Experiments in site-specific landscape-scale archaeological storytelling in the Scottish Highlands and Cornwall 1/11 OFF 8/11 - Leah Brainerd - Ecological niche models of early rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan 15/11 Kristy-Lee Seaton - Scaling down: Questioning assumptions on the reuse of digital data. 22/11 Mark Gillings - Mechanisms of Fascination: exploring archaeologies of frustration, obfuscation and impatience through the agency of affordance and affect 29/11 - Matthew
Dr Daniel Kumah working with Catherine Robins at the Heritage Jam. They are both looking at a computer screen and Daniel is discussing what is on the screen.
A slide with the Heritage Jam logo, which involves a game controller and retro-looking neon font. There are logos for the University of York, the White Rose university consortium, and UKRI UK research and innovation.
Digital reconstruction of the Mesolithic site of Star Carr. There is a stag in the foreground, some people in the background, and two thatch huts. It is snowing.
Chris Wakefield is holding a pot excavated at Must Farm, showing it to Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya. They are seated in an archaeology lab and appear to be discussing the pot.
Kirsty Ryder, standing in front of the impressive York Minster, holding a bouquet of flowers and her thesis. She looks overjoyed.
The text: SAVE THE DATE! The Heritage Jam Returns Weds 12- Fri 14 June. It is superimposed over materials from the Avebury Papers project, including photos, handwritten journals, and drawings of stones. There is a University of York logo in the bottom right corner.
Despoina, wearing a COVID mask, fitting a man with a VIVE Pro headset. They are both wearing winter clothes, and are in the DAH Lab, which is a stone barrel vault structure.
McKenna Crowe, standing and presenting her research at a conference. The conference room is very elaborate, with wood panelling. The screen for her presentation is too brightly lit to see the slide.
Solange Bohling, smiling, standing next to her poster that describes her research on the representation of human remains online.
A still from Naresh's film, showing the stones of Avebury flying through the air, above a dark, tree-filled skyline.
The Potential of Collaborative Video Games for Archaeology and Heritage - McKenna Crowe Practice based research: The efficacy of an interactive, multimedia approach to communicating archaeology through the use of virtual reality, 360° film, and participant agency - Dushyant Naresh Stratigraphic Analysis and The Matrix: connecting and reusing digital records and archives of - archaeological investigations - Keith May & James Taylor One Big Jigsaw: Challenges in Disseminating 3D Data from the Former Curzon Street Station Yard - Valeria Carrillo How FAIR is bioarchaeological data: with a particular emphasis on making archaeological science data reusable - Alphaeus Lien-Talks
I would hope to see ‘Anglo-Saxon’ eventually removed from much of its current use across English heritage sites and museums, with more specific terms used as alternatives, or frameworks used to explain its precise technical use: discussions are continuing to unfold in early medieval studies, although conversations between academics and heritage- and policy-makers outside of the academy should be further facilitated (Williams, 2015; Clarke et al., 2019; Karkov, 2020; Sayer, 2020; Rambaran-Olm and Wade, 2023). However, for now it continues to occupy a firm place within the English heritage industry and education curriculum. For so long as this remains the case, alongside laying the theoretical grounds and setting best practice standards for the more precise use of language, heritage-makers must take active steps to disentangle the early medieval past from patriarchal, racist, and oppressive discourses in the present. This is not about rehabilitating the term itself, but rather taking a f
A slide with people sitting at a computer visible, a logo for the Past at Play Lab, RoMeinCraft and the title of the lecture.
The King's Manor, a large brick building with chimneys and a door with a royal seal above it. The sky is clear and the moon is visible. There is a tree with autumnal leaves in front.
A digital reconstruction of a Roman-era writing implement, apples, a bowl, a candle, and a table.
Participants engaged in the body mapping process, visually translating their experience of analog and digital recording onto their body maps. This participant is drawing on a large piece of paper. There is a figure, a sun, a cloud, an hourglass, and question marks.
Poster that says: Digital Lunch DIY Digital Storytelling in Archaeology a comparative study of narrative, immersive filmmaking, and gaming for pedagogy and public outreach. Despoina V. Sampatakou Hosted by DAH Lab, University of York
An engraved face on a stone, held in the palm of a hand. The stone face is smiling.
A screenshot of VR reconstruction of a wall with paintings on it. The wall is an interior of a palace and the paintings are primarily of people. There is a door in the middle of the wall.