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This is the official Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology part of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. https://hca.ed.ac.uk/archaeology
📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: https://tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #isotopes #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📣 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
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
❗Seminar Thurs 13 Nov "Residues of Life: Microanalysis of Activity & Climate Change at #Roman #Vindolanda" Vanessa Reid @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk📍 Sydney Smith lecture room (Doorway 1) 🕰️ 4.15pm All Welcome! #EdinArch #Archaeology #geoarch #IronAge @vindolandatrust.bsky.socialofile/did:plc:cqpfilrgj7r3vpiopcapsc4t" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@vindolandatrust.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🎃 ☠️ Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students have been #felting up a storm making vertebrae recently! A fun #mindful way of learning skeletal #anatomy led by Dr Linda Fibiger 🧶 #halloween #osteology #osteo #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh #bones #EdinburghUni #craft @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
‼️reminder‼️this seminar is on today in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre (Doorway 1) in the Old Medical School. We hope to see you all there! 🏺 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Our seminar this Thurs 30th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is "Of rocks and hard places: from geopractices to extractivism in late prehistoric Europe" by Dr Beatrijs de Groot @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #Neolithic #pottery #Anthropocene #geology #lithics #prehistory #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh 🏺🪨⛰️
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Our seminar this Thurs 30th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is "Of rocks and hard places: from geopractices to extractivism in late prehistoric Europe" by Dr Beatrijs de Groot @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #Neolithic #pottery #Anthropocene #geology #lithics #prehistory #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh 🏺🪨⛰️
October 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
📣 TODAY's Seminar Thursday 23 October 2025 at 16:15pm SSLT (Doorway 1) 🇬🇷 "Hyettos: The Origins, Florescence and Afterlife of a Small City in Central Greece" by John Bintliff @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social #greece #archaeology #edinarch #classics #ottoman #byzantine #neolithic @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialrofile/did:plc:qca6kbpwqx4idzv576w2ezqq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Really enjoyed celebrating 100 years of the @leverhulme.ac.uk yesterday evening and listening to an inspiring lecture by Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on 100 years of research on adolescence. Very relevant to new collaborative work we are developing at Edinburgh.
October 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Just back from beautiful Zagreb! Had the pleasure to give a keynote on 'Bias, injustice and repairs in the digital heritage landscape' at the Digital Art History: Methods Practice and Epistemology conference, organised by Sanja Horvatincic and Sanja Sekelj from the University of Zagreb
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
‼️Reminder‼️our fieldwork round up is on TODAY 16th October at 16:15 in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre doorway 1 in the old medical school. See you all there!
📣 Our FREE seminar Thursday 16th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is all about #Fieldwork feat. 3x staff projects: @guillaume-robin.bsky.social (Copper Age shtag/Sardinia)%C2%A0@nubt4.bsky.social%C2%A0(Nubt" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Sardinia) @nubt4.bsky.social (Nubt #Egypt) & Prof. C. Pickard (Prehistoric Mull, Ulva & Gometra #Scotland) #EdinArch #Edinburgh #Archaeology #AncientEgypt
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Had such a great time taking the students to the Cathedral and talking them through biomolecular techniques 🧬🧪💀
Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students started semester with a trip to @stgilescathedral.bsky.social for the #Edinburgh900 First Burghers exhibition feat. our @samleggs22.bsky.social & lots of great #osteology #aDNA #isotopes work to discuss! #EdinArch #archaeology #medieval #OneHealth #Edinburgh
October 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students started semester with a trip to @stgilescathedral.bsky.social for the #Edinburgh900 First Burghers exhibition feat. our @samleggs22.bsky.social & lots of great #osteology #aDNA #isotopes work to discuss! #EdinArch #archaeology #medieval #OneHealth #Edinburgh
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Today we've had @deathrevol.bsky.social with us at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social as a gest lecturer, talking to students of #Archaeology and #Osteoarchaeology about the origins of human funerary behaviour. Such a pleasure, thank you so much for coming! @cenieh.bsky.social @fatapuerca.bsky.social 💀🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
October 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣 Our FREE seminar Thursday 16th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is all about #Fieldwork feat. 3x staff projects: @guillaume-robin.bsky.social (Copper Age shtag/Sardinia)%C2%A0@nubt4.bsky.social%C2%A0(Nubt" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Sardinia) @nubt4.bsky.social (Nubt #Egypt) & Prof. C. Pickard (Prehistoric Mull, Ulva & Gometra #Scotland) #EdinArch #Edinburgh #Archaeology #AncientEgypt
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator...
cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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October 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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⛪ 👨‍👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.
October 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Come celebrate achievements of Women in STEM with us this Ada Lovelace Day.
Learn about women in Archaeology, Engineering, Geoscience, Comp Sci & more!
edin.ac/ada2025

@morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinunimaths.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
📣Seminar TODAY 16:15 in Sydney Smith LT ⚽ "Nostalgia and Sportswashing: The Role of the Past in the Saudi Takeover of Newcastle United" by David Farrell-Banks @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social  📷 D. Farrell-Banks; Newcastle Fans TV CC BY-SA 4.0 #EdinArch #heritage #Newcastle #NewcastleFC #football #sport
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Reminder ‼️ This is in TODAY (2nd October) at 4:15pm. To find the room see 📍 🗺️ 🔗 www.accessable.co.uk/the-universi... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
This week's seminar Thurs 2nd Oct 4:15pm in Sydney Smith LT " #Atapuerca archaeological sites (Burgos, #Spain), from #Palaeolithic to 2025" from our own @michaelbones95.bsky.social All Welcome! #EdinArch #prehistory #bioanth #archaeology #Edinburgh #UNESCO #OneHealthArchaeo @iphes-cerca.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Recently @nubt4.bsky.social was in Nice 🇫🇷 to tackle big issues about #Neolithic @ Critical Margins Conference https://tinyurl.com/y4rpebzu 📖 more of Jo's #OpenAccess work on this from the earlier 'Revolutions' workshop 🔗 https://www.topoi.org/publication/49603/ #EdinArch #Archaeology #Egypt
Revolutions. The Neolithisation of the Mediterranean Basin | Topoi
Joanne Rowland, Giulio Lucarini and Geoffrey John Tassie (Eds.), Revolutions. The Neolithisation of the Mediterranean Basin, Berlin: Edition Topoi, 2020
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September 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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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
3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The 3rd International ReseArch group on quArries and Rock-cut sites (IRAAR) conference will take place 14-15 May, 2026.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM