Kate Britton
@whatkatiedigs.bsky.social
Archaeology, ancient biomolecules and Ice Age beasts
PALaEoScot is at the British Cave Research Association Science Symposium in Bristol today, spreading the word about the amazing MIS3/MIS2 faunas of Reindeer Cave, Assynt - great line up too! #archaeology #caving #pleistocene
October 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
PALaEoScot is at the British Cave Research Association Science Symposium in Bristol today, spreading the word about the amazing MIS3/MIS2 faunas of Reindeer Cave, Assynt - great line up too! #archaeology #caving #pleistocene
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 7:33 PM
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!
PalaeoScot is down in Pembroke for the week - it’s a PalaeoScot-PalaeoWales collab! We’ve done some isotope work at Wogan Cavern over the last few years and it’s great to finally see the site & to check out a potential new cave with some of the Wogan team too 👀 🦣 🦌 @ukri.org
August 4, 2025 at 9:04 AM
PalaeoScot is down in Pembroke for the week - it’s a PalaeoScot-PalaeoWales collab! We’ve done some isotope work at Wogan Cavern over the last few years and it’s great to finally see the site & to check out a potential new cave with some of the Wogan team too 👀 🦣 🦌 @ukri.org
(Very) Late to the party but enjoying it immensely - wonderful words @lemoustier.bsky.social would recommend KINDRED to anyone interested in learning more about Neanderthals, visiting the other-worlds of the past, or learning more about the process of field and research archaeology
July 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
(Very) Late to the party but enjoying it immensely - wonderful words @lemoustier.bsky.social would recommend KINDRED to anyone interested in learning more about Neanderthals, visiting the other-worlds of the past, or learning more about the process of field and research archaeology
A memorable, creative and restorative week at Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat. Met some wonderful people, was fed like a Queen and broke out of the academic writing bubble just a little bit - like a spa for the brain!
July 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A memorable, creative and restorative week at Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat. Met some wonderful people, was fed like a Queen and broke out of the academic writing bubble just a little bit - like a spa for the brain!
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
Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!
July 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein.bsky.social for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @sarahbarakat.bsky.social and helping us further develop our ZooMS capacity in Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us!
This week we also had a full-day PALaEoScot team meeting and welcomed our new PhD student, Tayla! It was wonderful to hear updates on the incredible lithics, palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental work the team is doing, and to discuss what’s next & to have bit of social time together too! 🦣
June 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
This week we also had a full-day PALaEoScot team meeting and welcomed our new PhD student, Tayla! It was wonderful to hear updates on the incredible lithics, palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental work the team is doing, and to discuss what’s next & to have bit of social time together too! 🦣
And now to the main event - the Europa lecture from Martin Bell - route-ways and paths as ‘entanglement made manifest’ for human and non-human entities. Movement is the ‘connective tissue between sites’ - inspirational! @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 4:20 PM
And now to the main event - the Europa lecture from Martin Bell - route-ways and paths as ‘entanglement made manifest’ for human and non-human entities. Movement is the ‘connective tissue between sites’ - inspirational! @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
For the penultimate talk at the Europa meeting we have Richard Bunning on trackways and water transport in the Somerset Levels - pondering how humans navigated and understood the very different worlds of marsh land, wetland, high ground and sea @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For the penultimate talk at the Europa meeting we have Richard Bunning on trackways and water transport in the Somerset Levels - pondering how humans navigated and understood the very different worlds of marsh land, wetland, high ground and sea @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Staying on the theme of connections to other worlds at Europa and to Bronze Age landscapes in Wales and the deliberate deposition of weapons and other metalwork with (a virtual) Chris Griffiths @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Staying on the theme of connections to other worlds at Europa and to Bronze Age landscapes in Wales and the deliberate deposition of weapons and other metalwork with (a virtual) Chris Griffiths @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Now a ‘slice of Danish’ (his words), Niels Nøtkjær Johannsen on the fascinating landscapes and graves of Neolithic Jutland. More animals too - cattle burials, along with perhaps near-invisible carts that could have traversed local trackways in death as in life @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Now a ‘slice of Danish’ (his words), Niels Nøtkjær Johannsen on the fascinating landscapes and graves of Neolithic Jutland. More animals too - cattle burials, along with perhaps near-invisible carts that could have traversed local trackways in death as in life @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Now landscape connectivity and lithics at @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social’s Europa meeting with Nick Barton - wonderful insights into the Mesolithic, complete with refits, at Welsh lake sites
June 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Now landscape connectivity and lithics at @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social’s Europa meeting with Nick Barton - wonderful insights into the Mesolithic, complete with refits, at Welsh lake sites
Closer to home again at the Thatcham Reedbeds with Catherine Barnett. Lovely to see multiple lines of env arch evidence integrated to paint such a vivid picture of these rich marsh environments that were centres of human and animal interaction in the mesolithic @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Closer to home again at the Thatcham Reedbeds with Catherine Barnett. Lovely to see multiple lines of env arch evidence integrated to paint such a vivid picture of these rich marsh environments that were centres of human and animal interaction in the mesolithic @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
The conference has moved to exotic Verona and the Middle Bronze Age Landscapes of Italy with Elisa Dalla Longa - the theme of rivers as connectors across landscapes is emerging as a common theme across many of the talks today - food for thought! 🐟 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The conference has moved to exotic Verona and the Middle Bronze Age Landscapes of Italy with Elisa Dalla Longa - the theme of rivers as connectors across landscapes is emerging as a common theme across many of the talks today - food for thought! 🐟 @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Now for some landscape-level network analysis with Newcastle’s Tom Lawrence - making complex statistics for archaeologists is a skill! Some sneaky isotopes included too via the Coneybury as part of a connected landscape bringing together animals & people @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Now for some landscape-level network analysis with Newcastle’s Tom Lawrence - making complex statistics for archaeologists is a skill! Some sneaky isotopes included too via the Coneybury as part of a connected landscape bringing together animals & people @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
Next up at Europa - plants in landscapes with Molly Masterson, not just their economic potential but as conduits of meaning and memory. Fascinating to think of wooden structures like those at Flag Fen being sensory mirrors for the felled forest itself @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
June 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Next up at Europa - plants in landscapes with Molly Masterson, not just their economic potential but as conduits of meaning and memory. Fascinating to think of wooden structures like those at Flag Fen being sensory mirrors for the felled forest itself @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social
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 6:39 PM
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!
Who says Buchan flint is not knappable?! Lovely work from our in-house stone-whisperer Dr Will Mills #flintfriday #experimentalarchaeology #mesolithic #palaeolithic #iceage
February 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Who says Buchan flint is not knappable?! Lovely work from our in-house stone-whisperer Dr Will Mills #flintfriday #experimentalarchaeology #mesolithic #palaeolithic #iceage