The Department of Archaeology at Sheffield University has a long history of bioarchaeology and environmental archaeology teaching and research, and is home today to some of the largest and most active zooarchaeology and archaeobotany research teams in the world. Our members work throughout Britain, Europe and Western Asia, as well as contributing to projects in Africa and elsewhere, and have research interests that span the period from the Palaeolithic to the recent past. The Sheffield department houses substantial laboratories for zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical and geoarchaeological research and teaching, including its extensive modern reference collections. The staff and members of the Centre of Archaeobotany and Ancient Land-use, and the Zooarchaeology Laboratory, are also much involved in teaching activities, and contribute significantly to a variety of undergraduate and post-graduate courses and degree programmes.