We are advertising for 3 new posts working on the ERC-funded MENTICA project: Post-doc in Archaeology Duration: 16 months Closing date: 2nd May 2023 The primary roles of the PDRA…Read More >

Dr Donna de Groene (UCC), who completed her PhD with the project in 2022, has published two new articles on her analysis of the zooarchaeological remains. In Journal of Archaeological…Read More >

  Dr Sam Walsh (UCLAN) has published a new article on the dental wear from the human burials at Bestansur. This paper presents the first evidence of extra-masticatory dental wear….Read More >

A trio of papers was published last week in the journal Science which report genome-wide data from 727 distinct ancient individuals—more than doubling the amount of ancient DNA data from…Read More >

Roger Matthews and Hassan Fazeli Nashli of Tehran University (with Amy Richardson as Illustrations Editor), have just published The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire, which is…Read More >

The Iraq-UK Project team conducted a ten-week season of excavations at Bestansur in Autumn 2021. Two days were also devoted to survey and a sounding in the vicinity of Zarzi…Read More >

The second volume in the CZAP series is now available to order here and for open access download: Matthews, R., Matthews, W., Rasheed Raheem, K. & Richardson, A. (eds). 2020. The Early…Read More >

The MENTICA team conducted an 11-week season of excavations at the Early Neolithic site of Bestansur between March and June 2019. The season focused on Trench 10 to extend excavations…Read More >

Members of the Department of Archaeology/Mentica Project are proud to support the renovation of the prehistory gallery at the Slemani Museum in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Supported by a…Read More >

Two postdoctoral research positions and two funded PhD studentships are available to start on 14 January 2019 to contribute to the ERC-funded MENTICA project. The successful applicants will work with…Read More >