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Alan Outram

@OutramAK

Professor of Archaeological Science

 Exeter, England
Joined May 2023
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Some delicate excavation work on the mosaic at our villa fieldschool.
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Halberton Villa fieldschool progressing well, in a bit of heatwave. One student combining head shade and hi-vis very effectively!
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Our fieldschool at a Roman villa in Halberton, Devon, has gotten underway. As well as excavation, we are training the students in various survey methods and finds processing. An early exciting find has been an intaglio with what looks like the figure of a winged victory on it.
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We have been rising fast in the QS global subject league tables. Archaeology at Exeter is now 34th in the World.
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Our 'Medieval Warhorse' book has also been nominated for Current Archaeology Book of the Year. Additionally, Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' research project has been nominated in the project category. You can vote on winners here: archaeology.co.uk/vote
Archaeology Awards Voting - Current Archaeology

Archaeology Awards Voting - Current Archaeology

Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?

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Medieval Warhorse is featured as one of the Books of the Year in the December issue of @HistoryToday
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A great turnout on to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. Part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, which welcome all! #mammoths
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Our ancient dog research is getting some good coverage in the news... bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d7j…
Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age

Our dogs' diversity can be traced back to the Stone Age

A new study suggests their physical transformation began much earlier than we previously thought.

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Very pleased to have made a contribution to both papers about ancient dogs just released in Science.
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@ScienceMagazine14 Nov 2025
As human groups migrated and settled across Holocene Eurasia, dogs often traveled with them and were sometimes traded among populations, researchers report in Science. The results reveal the integral role these animals played in culture and exchange. 📄: scim.ag/4ox6GVo
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Just out in the journal Science, Carly Ameen and colleagues show that there was extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices. #dogs #Archaeology news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of…
Extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices

Extensive dog diversity millennia before modern breeding practices

A groundbreaking archaeological study has revealed when domestic dogs first began to show the remarkable diversity that characterises them today. By applying cutting-edge shape analysis to hundreds...

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Very pleased with our new zooarchaeology reference collection and workroom!
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Check out the website of our @ahrcpress and @dfg_public "Pastoralists Lost" project, involving Alan Outram, Alex Pryor and Elena Sandoval in Exeter and Cheryl Makarewicz in Kiel. #prehistory #kazakhstan #pastoralism #Horses pastlost.webnode.page/
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Got a foreword by yours truly...
Medieval Warhorse (@AHRC_Warhorse) profile pictureMedieval Warhorse@AHRC_Warhorse22 Aug 2025
Here's a new edited volume called 'Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History', edited by our research fellow Katherine Kanne and our PhD alumnae Helene Benkert and Camille Vo Van Qui. It contains some warhorse-related chapters and much more besides. sidestone.com/books/harnessi…
Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press

Harnessing Horses from Prehistory to History @ Sidestone Press

The human past is unimaginable without the horse. From our ancestors hunting and painting horses in the Upper Palaeolithic, to the earliest riders, the rise of equestrian empires, and the critical...

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History repeats itself...me with an aurochs horn core outside a yurt in the field in Kazakhstan this year, and 26 years ago!
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Part way through our excavations at Borly Neolithic site in NE Kazakhstan, as part of our AHRC/DFG PASTLOST project, with some of our students and some Kazakh high school pupils.
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Our Medieval Warhorse project also features on the cover of the August edition of BBC History Magazine...
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Great to see the results of our previous Devon fieldschool at Ipplepen in print! 548 pages of detailed research. Well done to Prof. Stephen Rippon and team.
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First day on site for students at our Columbjohn, Killerton fieldschool. Cleaning up the machine dug trenches. These are my two teams 🙂
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We're back at Columbjohn! Returning to find more of the Elizabethan manor house. Trenches being opened up today, students on site from tomorrow. What will we discover this year? Watch this space. @NTKillerton @NatTrustArch
An archaeological trench being opened up by a yellow digger, with two people in hard hats and high-vis watching. The soil looks like it is full of rubble - demolished manor house!

ALT An archaeological trench being opened up by a yellow digger, with two people in hard hats and high-vis watching. The soil looks like it is full of rubble - demolished manor house!

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We have a Medieval Warhorse feature article in the latest edition of Current Archaeology magazine, and have the front cover! @CurrentArchaeo archaeology.co.uk/issues/cur…
Current Archaeology 422 - Current Archaeology

Current Archaeology 422 - Current Archaeology

This month’s cover shows Aberlemno II, a 2.28m-tall Pictish cross slab in Angus. Thought to date to the 8th century, its front depicts a large, elaborately decorated ring-headed cross, while the...

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