LIMINAL
LIMINAL
Launching September 2026

Archaeology.Anthropology.AI.

A research group working across archaeology, anthropology and AI.

A research group at CIIRC / CTU Prague

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Home institution

CIIRC — CTU in Prague

In partnership with

School of Archaeology, University of OxfordSt Hugh's College, University of Oxford

Services

Five services. One group.

01

Heritage

Heritage work for museums, castles, archives and estates.

  • ·AI tools for museums and collections
  • ·Digital twins of historic estates
  • ·AI in archaeology and fieldwork
Heritage HubDavinci
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02

Games

Coming 2026 — a marketplace and network of games, quests and story-driven experiences for heritage sites, hotels and tourism organisations.

  • ·Site listings and bookings
  • ·Creator network: designers, historians, educators
  • ·Custom quest commissions
Culture Quest
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03

People

Community, governance and trust inside organisations.

  • ·Organisational culture reviews
  • ·Safe AI adoption and governance
  • ·Ambassador and change programmes
BottlecapAI Diplomat
04

Technology

Human-centred technology and AI adoption.

  • ·Practical AI rollouts
  • ·Organisational memory systems
  • ·Resilience Academy for companies
BottlecapDavinci
05

Research

Citizen science, academic publishing, foresight.

  • ·Citizen science expeditions
  • ·Editorial support for academics
  • ·Foresight studies
Los Abuelos 2027
LIMINAL team with local collaborators at a jungle field camp in the Petén, Guatemala
Field camp · Petén, Guatemala

Next fieldwork · 2027

Los Abuelos — a lost Maya city.

In 2027 LIMINAL joins the excavation of Los Abuelos, led by Prof. Milan Kováč (Univerzita Komenského). We contribute LIDAR drone acquisition and the gamification and simulation of the civilisation for the public.

Work with us

Three ways in.

01 · Researchers

Join as a Fellow or Associate

Archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, computational scientists, policy researchers.

Register as a researcher
02 · Institutions

Become a founding partner

Universities, museums, archives, companies, NGOs, municipalities.

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We'll be in touch as projects are announced and again when we open in September 2026.

How we got here

A path from Oxford to LIMINAL.

  1. 2010Oxford

    Beginnings

    Roots in archaeology and anthropology at Oxford.

  2. 2010–2022UK & USA

    Building across worlds

    AI, heritage digitalisation, digital community building — across big tech and startups. The realisation: humans stay human. Palaeolithic minds, medieval institutions, godlike technology. And a culture sector left poor, grant-reliant and overstretched.

  3. 2022FIT CTU, Prague

    First research group

    Two international conferences with speakers including Robin Dunbar, Iain Standen and William Lobkowicz. First projects: AR app for Oppidum Závist, hackathons, digital twin of Střekov Castle, VR tests of managers' emotional intelligence.

  4. 2023Guatemala & industry

    A lost Maya city — and AI in the enterprise

    Part of an expedition that discovered a lost Maya city using AI. In parallel, consulting on AI transformation for banks and manufacturing.

  5. 2025Prague

    Revival

    Research efforts restart. The idea takes shape: a new centre that brings disciplines together to ask how humans behave and why — mapping past and present to design more resilient, happier futures.

  6. 2026+Launch

    LIMINAL

    Launching as a research group at CIIRC / CTU Prague, in partnership with Oxford School of Archaeology and St Hugh's College.

Full team to be announced soon.