Dr Emily Gal
@egalarch.bsky.social
South Uist. Archaeologist at UHI North, West and Hebrides/UHI Archaeology Institute.
Archaeology of islands and coasts in prehistory. Sand, weather, and also digital heritage
#UistUnearthed
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute
Archaeology of islands and coasts in prehistory. Sand, weather, and also digital heritage
#UistUnearthed
https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/archaeology-institute
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Avebury - LoGaCulture
Case Studies Case Studies 1 and 2The Avebury World Heritage Site, UK Partners: UOS, BU and NTProject Themes: Ethical Design for Access and Engagement; Creation and Authoring; Transmedia, Tourism, and ...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fancy playing a locative app-based Avebury game? logaculture.eu/news-events/...
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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
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
#AntiquityThread 1/15 🧵
@northernpicts.bsky.social🏺 #Archaeology
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
#archaeology #digitalheritage #digitalarchaeology
#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!
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!
Staff - Vacancies - Project Assistant
www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
#archaeology #digitalheritage #digitalarchaeology
#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!
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!
Staff - Vacancies - Project Assistant
www.nwh.uhi.ac.uk
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
#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!
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!
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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!!
Under Pressure?
This open access book gathers case studies of resilience and coping strategies in hunter-gatherer societies who were confronted with natural hazards
link.springer.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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!!
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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
#archaeology #studyarchaeology #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney
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.
archaeologyorkney.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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
#archaeology #studyarchaeology #undergraduate #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney
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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...
Only c.2,000£ are missing: We can do this!
gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...
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...
gogetfunding.com
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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...
Only c.2,000£ are missing: We can do this!
gogetfunding.com/help-gazan-s...
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Looking for some free archaeology inspired fun this summer? Check out these locative games inspired by Avebury @nattrustarch.bsky.social
logaculture.eu/news-events/...
logaculture.eu/news-events/...
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...
logaculture.eu
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Looking for some free archaeology inspired fun this summer? Check out these locative games inspired by Avebury @nattrustarch.bsky.social
logaculture.eu/news-events/...
logaculture.eu/news-events/...
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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...
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
www.cambridge.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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!
Come and work with us! We are looking for an Operations Manager for our sparkly new AEONS environmental arch facilities and labs. Operations Manager – Facilities (Institute of Archaeology) - ORK09488 | Orkney Islands Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...
Operations Manager – Facilities (Institute of Archaeology) - ORK09488 | Orkney Islands Council | myjobscotland
View details and apply for this management (education) role in Kirkwall with Orkney Islands Council on myjobscotland
myjobscotland.gov.uk
June 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Nice job for someone!
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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
#archaeology #research #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
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).
archaeologyorkney.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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
#archaeology #research #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
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A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers today has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme.
#archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
#archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
‘Prehistoric Policies’ research project secures British Academy funding
A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme.
archaeologyorkney.com
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 AM
A research project looking at how ideas of prehistory are used by policy makers today has been awarded funding from the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers programme.
#archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
#archaeology #research #mesolithic #paleolithic #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch
Great time at #IronAgeDialogues, at the Julian Hodge no less, scene of a few late night essay writing sessions! Had to miss Fri's hillfortfest but glad to catch excellent talks by my @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social colleagues Martin Carruthers and @archaeoholz.bsky.social. Thankyou to all organisers!!
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Great time at #IronAgeDialogues, at the Julian Hodge no less, scene of a few late night essay writing sessions! Had to miss Fri's hillfortfest but glad to catch excellent talks by my @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social colleagues Martin Carruthers and @archaeoholz.bsky.social. Thankyou to all organisers!!
Nice blog!
A Norse fish processing site, a rocket pole, limekilns, intertidal poetry and more – all within an hour’s walk of John O’ Groats. Read about this wonderful coastal landscape on the Walk of Discovery blog scapetrust.org/a-walk-of-di...
#hessupported #scotarchstrat #coastarch
#hessupported #scotarchstrat #coastarch
A Walk of Discovery: Ness of Duncansby, Caithness - The SCAPE Trust
Just east of John O’ Groats at a place called Robert’s Haven, you can see fragments of drystone walls and dark coloured soils full of pottery, shell, and fish bone eroding out of the dunes. Thanks to ...
scapetrust.org
May 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Nice blog!
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BRONZE AGE FORUM 2025
Hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on 14-16th Nov 2025
Tickets on sale now via bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
Waged Ticket - €60.00
Unwaged/Student Ticket - €20.00
Conference ticketholders will also have the option to attend a reception @nmireland.bsky.social
Hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on 14-16th Nov 2025
Tickets on sale now via bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
Waged Ticket - €60.00
Unwaged/Student Ticket - €20.00
Conference ticketholders will also have the option to attend a reception @nmireland.bsky.social
bronze age forum 2025
bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
BRONZE AGE FORUM 2025
Hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on 14-16th Nov 2025
Tickets on sale now via bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
Waged Ticket - €60.00
Unwaged/Student Ticket - €20.00
Conference ticketholders will also have the option to attend a reception @nmireland.bsky.social
Hosted by @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social on 14-16th Nov 2025
Tickets on sale now via bronzeageforum2025.wordpress.com
Waged Ticket - €60.00
Unwaged/Student Ticket - €20.00
Conference ticketholders will also have the option to attend a reception @nmireland.bsky.social
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New in IA69: Evidencing and ensuring impactful research from developer-funded #archaeology by Sadie Watson (MOLA).
🏺 #archaeology #UK #developer-funded #impact #research #socialvalue #publicbenefit #participation
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
🏺 #archaeology #UK #developer-funded #impact #research #socialvalue #publicbenefit #participation
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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March 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New in IA69: Evidencing and ensuring impactful research from developer-funded #archaeology by Sadie Watson (MOLA).
🏺 #archaeology #UK #developer-funded #impact #research #socialvalue #publicbenefit #participation
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
🏺 #archaeology #UK #developer-funded #impact #research #socialvalue #publicbenefit #participation
doi.org/10.11141/ia....
This looks SO good! I think a cheeky visit home is in order
So excited to announce that registration for the Iron Age Dialogues conference hosted at Cardiff University 30 April-2 May is now OPEN! 🎉
🎟️ More info and link to the registration portal: ironagedialogues.co.uk/registration
👩🏫 See the full programme here:
www.ironagedialogues.co.uk/conference-s...
🎟️ More info and link to the registration portal: ironagedialogues.co.uk/registration
👩🏫 See the full programme here:
www.ironagedialogues.co.uk/conference-s...
ironagedialogues.co.uk
March 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This looks SO good! I think a cheeky visit home is in order
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Project Manager, Public Archaeology
AOC Holdings LTD
Salary: £37,123 – £42,252 (depending on experience)
Closing Date: 10/03/25
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
AOC Holdings LTD
Salary: £37,123 – £42,252 (depending on experience)
Closing Date: 10/03/25
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
Project Manager, Public Archaeology - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
Salary: £37,123 - £42,252 (depending on experience)Closing Date: 10/03/25Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Project Manager, Public Archaeology
AOC Holdings LTD
Salary: £37,123 – £42,252 (depending on experience)
Closing Date: 10/03/25
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
AOC Holdings LTD
Salary: £37,123 – £42,252 (depending on experience)
Closing Date: 10/03/25
Location: Edinburgh
www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...
V happy to share this news! Funding secured for a project to create digital heritage interpretation experiences at archaeological sites in Barra and Harris. Excited to build on learning from Uist Unearthed, to landscapes with a new set of opportunities and challenges for heritage interpretation.
The team behind the award-winning Uist Virtual Archaeology Project have been awarded funding for a new three-year digital heritage interpretation project in the Outer Hebrides.
#archaeology #ThinkUHI
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/12/u...
#archaeology #ThinkUHI
archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/12/u...
Funding secured to expand digital archaeology across Outer Hebrides - Archaeology Orkney
The Uist Virtual Archaeology Project has secured funding that will allow it to expand into Barra and Harris.
archaeologyorkney.com
February 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
V happy to share this news! Funding secured for a project to create digital heritage interpretation experiences at archaeological sites in Barra and Harris. Excited to build on learning from Uist Unearthed, to landscapes with a new set of opportunities and challenges for heritage interpretation.
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I wrote an article for The Conversation about generative AI visualisation in #archaeology, will discuss it further in a thread tomorrow. 🏺
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology
Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.
theconversation.com
February 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I wrote an article for The Conversation about generative AI visualisation in #archaeology, will discuss it further in a thread tomorrow. 🏺
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
theconversation.com/how-ai-image...
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Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University
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Sign the Petition
Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree
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January 30, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Please sign and share this student-led petition to save Ancient History here at Cardiff University
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Outer Hebrides heritage jobs alert!
>Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum
>Manager, Admin Support and Development Officer roles
>Closing date 13th Feb
👇
www.ohheritageforum.com
>Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum
>Manager, Admin Support and Development Officer roles
>Closing date 13th Feb
👇
www.ohheritageforum.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Outer Hebrides heritage jobs alert!
>Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum
>Manager, Admin Support and Development Officer roles
>Closing date 13th Feb
👇
www.ohheritageforum.com
>Outer Hebrides Heritage Forum
>Manager, Admin Support and Development Officer roles
>Closing date 13th Feb
👇
www.ohheritageforum.com
This sounds like a lovely project!
PhD Studentship: Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments- Manchester Metropolitan University - #Archaeology www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLO927/p...
PhD Studentship: Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments at Manchester Metropolitan University
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This sounds like a lovely project!
If you see this post quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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New issue out on climate change and heritage! ed. by @ellster17.bsky.social & Sara Ayres-Rigsby.
"How we can help make our collective memory, as embodied by our shared cultural heritage, available for future generations on a global scale?"
#ClimateHeritage
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjfa20/5...
"How we can help make our collective memory, as embodied by our shared cultural heritage, available for future generations on a global scale?"
#ClimateHeritage
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjfa20/5...
Journal of Field Archaeology
Climate Change and Heritage. Volume 50, Issue 1 of Journal of Field Archaeology
www.tandfonline.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New issue out on climate change and heritage! ed. by @ellster17.bsky.social & Sara Ayres-Rigsby.
"How we can help make our collective memory, as embodied by our shared cultural heritage, available for future generations on a global scale?"
#ClimateHeritage
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjfa20/5...
"How we can help make our collective memory, as embodied by our shared cultural heritage, available for future generations on a global scale?"
#ClimateHeritage
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yjfa20/5...