New chapters of the South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework (SESARF) are now live on the ScARF website and ready for your input!

Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO

📣 New Open Access Paper! Led by Dr Robin Bendrey  & published in EMPH it explores how #OneHealth approaches can aid our understanding of infectious disease dynamics associated with emergent animal farming in both the past and the present 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf029 #EdinArch #zooarch

ONLINE FELLOWS’ MEETING: Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments

In 2024, we awarded funding to @archscot.bsky.social to investigate Scotland’s Early Neolithic megalithic chambered and passage tombs. Hear an update at this Fellows-only event on 13 November: www.socantscot.org/upcoming-eve...

There's still time to submit an abstract for the 2026 International Network on Quarrying and Rock-cut Sites conference 🏺 #archaeology

Call for Papers deadline 31 Dec 2025, conference 14-15 May 2026 in Edinburgh.

Includes a theme on the intersection of quarrying, rock-cut sites and rock art!

Today at 4pm (UK time) I’ll give a talk at the University of Glasgow archaeology seminar about our excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Copper Age settlement, Sardinia). This will also be on Zoom www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!

Are you an archaeologist working on quarries or rock-cut structures? Please submit a paper proposal at this upcoming conference (Edinburgh, UK, 14-15 May 2026) hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

Delighted to see our new book on Toraja rock-cut tombs fresh from the press! Many thanks to Julie Gardiner and @oxbowbooks.bsky.social

Just-announced programme for the Highland Archaeology Festival in Inverness next month. I'll be there talking about evidence for the early church in Urquhart, the Aird and Strathglass, drawing on some of my most recent research. Looking forward to meeting and hearing from others!

Some ethnoarchaeological excitement is coming your way! This upcoming volume is the first book dedicated to Toraja rock-cut tombs, providing a detailed overview of and fresh insights into this unique burial tradition. Learn more ➡ bit.ly/3HvRbg9

Three ancient rock-cut chamber tombs of a type known as "Domus de Janas" have been uncovered in Sardinia’s Sant’Andrea Priu archaeological complex.

archaeology.org/news/2025/08/01/ancient-sardinian-tombs-uncovered/

Call for papers!

Conference on the archaeology of quarrying and rock-cut sites, May 2026 in Edinburgh.

You have plenty of time to send your abstract, but don’t leave it too late either!

#archaeology 🏺

hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

Today, the unique Neolithic rock-cut tombs of Sardinia (domus de janas) have been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. A much deserved recognition! whc.unesco.org/en/list/1730

Many thanks to Bonorva municipality, Soprintendenza di Sassari, Forestas, and our partners @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @inrap.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social for another successful season. See you again next year!

End of the 2025 excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia). This year we explored a Middle Bronze Age cluster of round and rectangular stone houses, representing a later phase of occupation at the site.

Florian Soula and Antonio d’Agostino from @inrap.fr Corsica have just joined the excavation team at the Chalcolithic settlement site of Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia). They will dig with us until the 26th June. Ben tornati (welcome back) Florian and Antonio!

Excavations have resumed this week at the Chalcolithic settlement site of Punta Ferulosu (Sardinia) with archaeology students from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

Very excited to read these two new books that have just arrived by the post: Pierre Pétrequin’s final two volumes of the JADE project’s monograph series, and Serge Cassen’s “monumental” monograph on the Gavrinis decorated chambered tomb in Brittany #neolithic