Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen
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We are so proud of you @elisabethniklasson.bsky.social !!! Leverhulme Prize Winner for Archaeology 2025!!!
October 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
We are so proud of you @elisabethniklasson.bsky.social !!! Leverhulme Prize Winner for Archaeology 2025!!!
Welcoming our MSc cohort! Great to meet so many new faces, and many of our returning undergraduates too, now joining us for our Archaeology, Arch of the North, Osteoarch, Bioarch, Biomols and Cultural Heritage programmes 🧑🎓
October 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Welcoming our MSc cohort! Great to meet so many new faces, and many of our returning undergraduates too, now joining us for our Archaeology, Arch of the North, Osteoarch, Bioarch, Biomols and Cultural Heritage programmes 🧑🎓
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This weekend we’ve been out with our third year UoA UG students investigating shell
Middens at the Sands of Forvie on the Ythan estuary. Around 15 years ago we dug a series of middens at Forvie that turned out to be Pictish in date. Will this prove to be another example!? Early results look 👌
Middens at the Sands of Forvie on the Ythan estuary. Around 15 years ago we dug a series of middens at Forvie that turned out to be Pictish in date. Will this prove to be another example!? Early results look 👌
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 AM
This weekend we’ve been out with our third year UoA UG students investigating shell
Middens at the Sands of Forvie on the Ythan estuary. Around 15 years ago we dug a series of middens at Forvie that turned out to be Pictish in date. Will this prove to be another example!? Early results look 👌
Middens at the Sands of Forvie on the Ythan estuary. Around 15 years ago we dug a series of middens at Forvie that turned out to be Pictish in date. Will this prove to be another example!? Early results look 👌
We are over the moon! Our archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen ranked no. 1 in the UK for Archaeology and Forensic Sciences in The Times Good University Guide 2026.
Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!
Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!
September 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We are over the moon! Our archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen ranked no. 1 in the UK for Archaeology and Forensic Sciences in The Times Good University Guide 2026.
Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!
Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!
Our field season at the historic Old Kinord settlement is a wrap! The #archaeology of standing buildings is like an iceberg! The simple, surface story gives way to complex biographies that hint at changes in use, and how dwellings were maintained, altered and abandoned
September 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Our field season at the historic Old Kinord settlement is a wrap! The #archaeology of standing buildings is like an iceberg! The simple, surface story gives way to complex biographies that hint at changes in use, and how dwellings were maintained, altered and abandoned
Come and meet the PALaEoScot team this Sunday 14th 11am-4pm at our old aberdeen campus
Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!
September 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Come and meet the PALaEoScot team this Sunday 14th 11am-4pm at our old aberdeen campus
Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️
September 4, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️
Drs Jeff Oliver and Michael Stratigos are running our historical archaeology field school out at Loch Kinord - revealing secrets of past Scottish farming practices and rural life just under the surface!
September 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Drs Jeff Oliver and Michael Stratigos are running our historical archaeology field school out at Loch Kinord - revealing secrets of past Scottish farming practices and rural life just under the surface!
A Nature feature highlights recently published research by a member of our team on an ancient Egyptian genome, placing it in the context of ongoing and future genomics research in Egypt: www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Mummy DNA sheds light on Egypt’s diverse past
Genome analysis of a 4,500-year-old mummy reveals North African and Iraqi ancestry, as Egypt embarks on an ambitious project to decode the DNA of 200 mummies and 100,000 citizens.
www.nature.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
A Nature feature highlights recently published research by a member of our team on an ancient Egyptian genome, placing it in the context of ongoing and future genomics research in Egypt: www.nature.com/articles/d44...
Day Three is excursion day at the SEAA 2025 conference here in Aberdeen and our delegates have been touring north-east Scotland’s beautiful and bountiful archaeology. From stone circles to Pictish forts!
August 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Day Three is excursion day at the SEAA 2025 conference here in Aberdeen and our delegates have been touring north-east Scotland’s beautiful and bountiful archaeology. From stone circles to Pictish forts!
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There was a shout for find of the day at 9:21am this morning and it did indeed turn out to be the find of the day - found by our University of Aberdeen Certificate student Andy! What a beauty of a bone pin from the Pictish fort at Burghead! #historicenvironmentscotland @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
There was a shout for find of the day at 9:21am this morning and it did indeed turn out to be the find of the day - found by our University of Aberdeen Certificate student Andy! What a beauty of a bone pin from the Pictish fort at Burghead! #historicenvironmentscotland @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social
Day two of the SEAA 2025 conference in Aberdeen is off to a flying (and rather metallurgic) start! Now for refuelling in beautiful Elphinstone Hall 😋
August 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Day two of the SEAA 2025 conference in Aberdeen is off to a flying (and rather metallurgic) start! Now for refuelling in beautiful Elphinstone Hall 😋
Yesterday saw a wonderful first day at the SEAA conference which we have the privellge of hosting this year. Fantastic talks, wonderful food, restorative chats, and a warm welcome at the Town House by the Lord Provost!
August 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Yesterday saw a wonderful first day at the SEAA conference which we have the privellge of hosting this year. Fantastic talks, wonderful food, restorative chats, and a warm welcome at the Town House by the Lord Provost!
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One of our @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social lecturer's recently had an article in Nature, and published a research briefing to go along with. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience
These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience
A genome from ancient Egypt
Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.
www.nature.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
One of our @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social lecturer's recently had an article in Nature, and published a research briefing to go along with. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience
These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience
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Antiquity authors feature on the @archpodnet.bsky.social Heritage Voices podcast to discuss the Nunalleq Digital Museum🏺
It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community.
buff.ly/LMoInPr
It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community.
buff.ly/LMoInPr
July 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Antiquity authors feature on the @archpodnet.bsky.social Heritage Voices podcast to discuss the Nunalleq Digital Museum🏺
It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community.
buff.ly/LMoInPr
It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community.
buff.ly/LMoInPr
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Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast!
Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU
And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY
Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU
And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY
Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past - Volume 99 Issue 405
doi.org
July 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast!
Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU
And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY
Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU
And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY
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This week #PALaEoScot has been part of a team testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Late Glacial/early Holocene archaeology (or palaeontology!). So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 @ukri.org @willmills.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This week #PALaEoScot has been part of a team testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Late Glacial/early Holocene archaeology (or palaeontology!). So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 @ukri.org @willmills.bsky.social
Aberdeen's Jeff Oliver along with a team from Sheffield, Eryri National Park with local volunteers recently surveyed and excavated the remains of post-medieval cottages & their landscape. This research helps us to understand more about the lives of the rural poor & landless, less visible in history.
June 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Aberdeen's Jeff Oliver along with a team from Sheffield, Eryri National Park with local volunteers recently surveyed and excavated the remains of post-medieval cottages & their landscape. This research helps us to understand more about the lives of the rural poor & landless, less visible in history.
We’ll hopefully see you again at some point Prof. Britton! 😅
This week I’ve scoured letters at NMS for glimpses of Pleistocene animals; celebrated Medieval life at an exhibition opening; & been immersed in prehistoric landscapes at the Europa in Reading. Archaeology is so rich and varied. Thank you to everyone who shared their knowledge & passion this week!🏺🦣
June 8, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We’ll hopefully see you again at some point Prof. Britton! 😅
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This week the Northern Picts team are in Shetland investigating the context of the fabulous Pictish stone from Mail, Shetland. This carving was found during grave digging in the 1960s and shows a figure carrying a Rhynie Man style axe. We’ll be test pitting at islet broch site and the adjacent coast
June 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This week the Northern Picts team are in Shetland investigating the context of the fabulous Pictish stone from Mail, Shetland. This carving was found during grave digging in the 1960s and shows a figure carrying a Rhynie Man style axe. We’ll be test pitting at islet broch site and the adjacent coast
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Great coverage of the Edinburgh’s First Burghers exhibition in the Scotsman - it has been brilliant to see this HES-funded work go from the lab to exhibition! @orshicz.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
The faces of Edinburgh's first residents brought to life 900 years on
The faces tell a story of the early days of Edinburgh.
www.scotsman.com
June 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Great coverage of the Edinburgh’s First Burghers exhibition in the Scotsman - it has been brilliant to see this HES-funded work go from the lab to exhibition! @orshicz.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
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Great to be at the Europa conference today, a celebration of landscape connectivity in prehistory and the career and work of the wonderful Martin Bell. First up, a fascinating and rapid-fire tour of 900,000 years of island (and not island) Britain with Matt Pope
June 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Great to be at the Europa conference today, a celebration of landscape connectivity in prehistory and the career and work of the wonderful Martin Bell. First up, a fascinating and rapid-fire tour of 900,000 years of island (and not island) Britain with Matt Pope
Wonderful to be here at the opening of the Edinburgh’s first burgher’s exhibition. Part of the Edinburgh 900 celebrations, the exhibition runs until November at St Giles’ Cathedral and features DNA, facial reconstructions and our isotopic insights! @orshicz.bsky.social - this time with pictures!
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr Ellie Graham. For her thesis, Ellie tracked erosion and damage to vulnerable coastal sites using drone technology - well done Dr Graham! #climatechange #archaeology #scotland supported by @ukri.org @quadratdtp.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr Ellie Graham. For her thesis, Ellie tracked erosion and damage to vulnerable coastal sites using drone technology - well done Dr Graham! #climatechange #archaeology #scotland supported by @ukri.org @quadratdtp.bsky.social
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Not Pictish but the 3D print of one of our University of Aberdeen archaeology third year student’s 3D models came out super well. A carved stone ball from Aberdeenshire
May 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Not Pictish but the 3D print of one of our University of Aberdeen archaeology third year student’s 3D models came out super well. A carved stone ball from Aberdeenshire