Archaeologist, University of York
Joined January 2013
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Ian Armit retweeted
16 Sep 2025
As one door closes another one opens... Huge congratulations to @LindseyBuster from all the COMMIOS team. 🥳🥳🥳
16 Sep 2025
After weeks of having to keep this under my hat, I'm delighted to share some exciting news about my full-time move to York starting 1st October! Huge thanks to everyone who has helped along the way... 🤗🤗🤗
ukri.org/news/ukri-announces…
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Ian Armit retweeted
8 Oct 2024
For the Beaker-lovers out there, @IanArmit's keynote at the Transformation of Europe in the 3rd Millennium BC conference in Riva del Garda, is now available to watch on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=i3eDExYc… 🥳🥳🥳
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Ian Armit retweeted
11 Jun 2024
Wow. 🤯What an amazng day @Commiosproject @PrehistSociety #IronAgeLivesconference with colleagus from @celtudalps43715 & @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Thanks so much to all our speakers and attendees, & our chairs Prof. Mel Giles & @pre_historian. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 😊
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Glad you enjoyed it Rachel - thanks for chairing so wonderfully!
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Ian Armit retweeted
22 May 2024
@IanArmit and his team examine the meaning and significance of a remarkable collection of carved stone heads in the context of vernacular art, cosmology and religion in the early centuries CE: flipsnack.com/leverhulmetrus…
ALT Screenshot of double page spread. Red sandstone head carving on black background from four angles.
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Ian Armit retweeted
20 May 2024
Tickets are still available for our Iron Age Lives conference, hosted on 7th June at the University of York in collaboration with the Prehistoric Society.
Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/event…… to book your place!
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Ian Armit retweeted
25 Apr 2024
Today members of the team enjoyed discussing their work with students taking the 'Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland' module as part of the MA in Iron Age and Celtic Archaeology @UoYArchaeology 🦴🧬📊📉
@Michaellegge91 @seba_metz @Maddy_Bleasdale @L_Castells
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This is going to be a great conference!
22 Apr 2024
🎉The @Commiosproject team are delighted to announce that bookings are now open for our #IronAgeLives conference, hosted on 7th June @UniOfYork in collaboration with the @PrehistSociety. Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/event… to book your place!
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Ian Armit retweeted
11 Mar 2024
I was so pleased to be invited to do this. Thanks @socantscot @DigItScotland 🤗🤗🤗
For nearly 100 years, women have worked to uncover the remains of Scotland's ancient burial practices in a group of enigmatic sea caves in Moray.
On #InternationalWomensDay, dig into the history of the Covesea Caves with @LindseyBuster and Momoko Eliot: youtube.com/watch?v=5AL0wgZo…
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Ian Armit retweeted
29 Feb 2024
@IanArmit had a wonderful time in Brussels 🍟🍻🍫🧇presenting @Commiosproject research at the 32nd CAM/LUNULA conference. Thanks to the organisers for the invitation, and great to catch up with so many colleagues! 🙂
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Delighted to see this paper come out, including some really interesting Iron Age individuals from Wetwang Slack. Congratulations to first author Kakia!
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Ian Armit retweeted
5 Dec 2023
Calling those curious about postgraduate study in:
🏺 Archaeology
📈 Business, Management and Finance
📚 English
⚖️ Law
🧠 Psychology
We’re running online sessions where staff from the department or School will share what's on offer.
Find out more
bit.ly/41cbLYy
ALT Text reads: ?The discover sessions, hear directly from the department you want to study with
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Ian Armit retweeted
31 Oct 2023
COMMIOS PI @IanArmit had a fantastic week in Riva del Garda at the 'Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC' conference (transformeurope1riva2023.com…). Thanks to Franco Nicolis and Volker Heyd for organising such a great meeting!
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Ian Armit retweeted
25 Sep 2023
So what is the Cult of the Head project about? In a quiet village in Gloucestershire, on the west of the Severn, there is a little-known archaeological site called Dean Hall Roman Temple. littledeanhall.wordpress.com…
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Ian Armit retweeted
18 Jul 2023
Meet the newest member of the COMMIOS team! Sebastian @seba_metz is our postdoc in Bioinformatics. He will be analysing ancient human DNA to investigate population structure, diversity and kinships in Iron Age Britain (1/4)
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Ian Armit retweeted
29 Jun 2023
Congratulations to @IanArmit & @LindseyBuster on their part in this award-winning research! #bencullenprize
14 Jun 2023
Congratulations to Julia Best et al., winners of the 2023 Ben Cullen Prize!
Their research uncovered that the chicken was introduced to Europe and North Africa much later than previously believed.
Check out the officially award-winning work (🆓) buff.ly/3xlcBVj
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Ian Armit retweeted
28 Jun 2023
We had a wonderful time in Bolzano with @EuracMummy & the CELTUDALPS team discussing our research & making plans for future collaboration. We can't wait to see them all again for session#141 @archaeologyEAA 2023 in Belfast this September!
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Ian Armit retweeted
28 Apr 2023
Great to see this out. 😊
26 Apr 2023
New Open Access Article Alert! Free to read and download.
Mediating worlds: the role of nurses as ritual specialists in caring for the dead and dying.
Please retweet & share with anyone it might interest.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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