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Seminar: Prof Niall Sharples on Bornais and the Norse settlement of the Hebrides Professor Niall Sharples is our guest on Friday, Feb 27, for our monthly online research seminar.

Professor Niall Sharples is our guest on Friday, Feb 27, for our monthly online research seminar.

Dissertation prizes top off successful student conference in Aberdeen It’s been a successful weekend for the UHI Archaeology Institute at the Scottish Student archaeology Society conference (SSACC) conference in Aberdeen.

It’s been a successful weekend for the UHI Archaeology Institute at the Scottish Student archaeology Society conference (SSACC) conference in Aberdeen.

A66 Creative Commissions – NOW OPEN for applications!

Oxford Cotswold Archaeology are thrilled to announce an open call for two Creative Commissions, each worth up to £9,650, inspired by the archaeological discoveries along the A66!

📅 March 1 2026
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It’s always satisfying to work with good stratigraphy as this section of deposits, representing a sequence where the landscape is dipping into a hollow, from Needingworth Quarry highlights. Understanding this profile provides vital information that helps to unpick the story of a site and landscape.

Post-doctoral researcher sought for analysis of Newark cemetery remains ORCA is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to record and analyse the human remains from a Pictish/Norse cemetery in Orkney.

The UHI Archaeology Institute is looking for a post-doctoral researcher to record and analyse the human remains from a Pictish/Norse cemetery in Orkney.

Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

Exquisite data-driven digital storytelling.

H/t: @benproctor.co.uk

searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) at Queen's University Belfast An opportunity for an academic position as a Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Ecologies of Governance) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Come join the Ecologies of Governance team, working with Andy Seaman, Duncan Wright, Rich Madgwick and me on our AHRC project. 30 month Palaeoecology postdoc to work on our five case study landscapes based at QUB - Archaeology at Queen's www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQJ146/p...

aww. he looks like my boy Noodle

The strong winds of Storm Bram coincided with high tides, potentially causing coastal erosion. When it’s safe you can help monitor changes by reporting any damage you see. Use Dynamic Coast's new Coastal Erosion Reporter tool at www.DynamicCoast.com
Thank you!
#stormbram #coastarch #hessupported

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New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.

Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

Cool MRes alert!

Fancy playing a locative app-based Avebury game? logaculture.eu/news-events/...

Double-sided comb made from bone.

NEW Were the Picts of northern Scotland wiped out by Viking conquest? New radiocarbon dates from the 1st millennium AD settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney paint a more complex picture of cultural interaction in the Northern Isles.

#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵

@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology

thankyou for sharing!

Bumping this again! Come and work with us in lovely Uist. You will be joining the @uhinwh.bsky.social Archaeology team at cnocsoilleir.org with plenty of travel to Barra and Harris too!

#archaeology #digitalheritage #digitalarchaeology

Cnoc Soilleir - Home of Ceòlas and UHI North, West & Hebrides Àite airson ionnsachaidh, ealain agus tachartasan | A space for learning, arts and events

Yep! In our lovely and v new home cnocsoilleir.org

@uhiarchaeology.bsky.social

#Archaeology job alert!🏺

Excited to share this vacancy for a Project Assistant to support delivery of our new digital heritage interpretation project - Barra and Harris Unearthed.

www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Based at Cnoc Soilleir, South Uist

Please share!

Thanks Claire! Selected pages of the book can be used to trigger AR media inc models, videos, etc - via the soon to be updated Uist Unearthed app. Important to us that the book 'stands alone' however, so also fully readable without the AR elements.

see reply above - soft cover to also be available at a significantly reduced price, and believe the ebook should be too.

Thanks for sharing Adam, pleased to say there will also be a soft cover version at a much less eyewatering price! 🥳Unsure on release dates for that.

wow! beautiful!

Under Pressure? This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

New ‘year in industry’ archaeology degrees are a first for Scotland We’re delighted to announce the addition of two new “sandwich” undergraduate degrees to our portfolio - the first and only two of their kind in Scotland.

The UHI Archaeology Institute has added two new “year in industry” undergraduate degrees to our portfolio - the first and only two of their kind in Scotland. Click the link for full details.
#archaeology #studyarchaeology #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney

Help Gazan students to complete their university degrees The war in Gaza has devastated the region’s higher education infrastructure. Several universities have been damaged or destroyed, forcing students to continue their studies online under extremely diff...

Morning sunshines: Here is a great way for historians, archaeologists, classicists and Egyptologists to do something tangible to help Gazan students in our fields.
Only c.2,000£ are missing: We can do this!
gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...

Wahey! Congrats Alan, looking forward to seeing you around virtually

Avebury Adventures: Exploring Avebury through Locative Games - LoGaCulture 25th-26th July 2025, 10am-4pm, Visitor Reception Barn at Avebury Come to Avebury for the launch of a panoply of locative games! Experience history in and around the ancient landscape with games and st...

Looking for some free archaeology inspired fun this summer? Check out these locative games inspired by Avebury @nattrustarch.bsky.social
logaculture.eu/news-events/...

The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber | Antiquity | Cambridge Core The ‘king’ of Newgrange? A critical analysis of a Neolithic petrous fragment from the passage tomb chamber - Volume 99 Issue 405

Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Nice job for someone!

SGSAH funding sets another two UHI postgraduates on the path to a PhD We are delighted to confirm that another two of our postgraduate students are on the road to a PhD following successful funding applications from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).

We are delighted to confirm that another two of our postgraduate students are on the road to a PhD following successful funding applications from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH).
#archaeology #research #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch