The Digital Archaeology & Heritage Lab

DAH Lab is located in the King's Manor, Department of Archaeology, University of York. We are a community of scholars who use digital tools to investigate archaeology and heritage. In these pages you can see examples of our recent work. 

Recent News

Untitled Goose Game with Colleen Morgan.mp4

Twitch Stream: Untitled Goose Game

Colleen Morgan and Nick Jones (from School of Arts and Creative Technologies) streamed the Untitled Goose Game on Twitch to discuss the game's interaction with materiality and Colleen's research. 

Heritage Jam!

In collaboration with the European Society for Black and Allied Archaeologists and the University of Leiden Past at Play Lab we hosted the Heritage Jam, a 3 day workshop of lectures, research and game creation!

Low Poly Star Carr

Digital Heritage MSc Demi Thorsteinsson created an interactive low-poly visual interpretation of Star Carr and has uploaded it to Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/oqnXn

Laser Scanning for the Acoustic Atlas

Colleen Morgan joined Cobi Van Tonder and Paulina Lewinska to laser scan caves in the Yorkshire Dales in support of Van Tonder's Acoustic Atlas Project https://www.acousticatlas.de/

New Computers!

Over the summer we won a grant to completely refit the lab with new, high-spec visualising computers!

Interactive interface for Oakham Castle by Ross Baker

3D reconstruction of a medieval Italo-Netherlandish Maiolica Ware Jug by Kit Ackland. 

Playing With Monsters: An Uncanny Digital Archaeology - a talk by Colleen Morgan given to the Stanford Archaeology Center (Oct 2020)

Get in touch at [dah-lab@york.ac.uk]