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Edinburgh Archaeology
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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
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
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
📣 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
📣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
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
🥳 @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
📣 New publication 📣 Dr Andrew Lamb "The later Iron Age inhumation burials of south-west Britain and Armorica and their potential relationship" https://tinyurl.com/3yfesrjv 📷 Kernow Skies CC-BY-SA #Cornwall #Kernow #EdinArch #Brittany #Archaeology #Prehistory #IronAge  @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
August 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our @samleggs22.bsky.social is part of a new #exhibition @stgilescathedral.bsky.social@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social  about the 1st Burghers as part of #edinburgh 's 900th birthday! 🎂 Check it out at #StGiles until 30th Nov ⛪ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch #archaeology #scotland #archsci
June 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
...what lies beneath? Recently our MSc Human #Osteoarchaeology students acquired excavation & recording skills during a mock excavation exercise with plastic replica skeletons ☠️ with the Scottish weather at its best! ☀️ #EdinArch #osteo #archaeology #Scotland #EdinburghUni @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
June 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🥳 Luisa Leiss MSc Human Osteoarchaeology (2023-24) was recently awarded🥇 “Early Career Award” at the annual conference of the German Anthropological Society, where she recently presented her MSc research! Congrats Luisa! #EdinArch #osteology #archaeology #EdinburghUni @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
June 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jonny Geber (Archaeology) & Esther Mijers (History) were recently in Grenada developing @belmontheritage.bsky.social a former Scottish owned slave plantation. This trip included visits to the Hermitage Estate 📸  #fieldwork #slavery #heritage #BelmontEstate #Grenada 🇬🇩 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
April 4, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🚨Book Alert!🚨 Iron Age Mortuary Practices in Southern England 550 BC to AD 70 by our own Dr Andrew Lamb! Buy it @barpublishing.bsky.social 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yb9evebf @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 📖 #newbook #edinarch #archaeology #IronAge #England #mortuary
April 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We are thrilled by the #EUSA #TeachingAward nominations our staff received this year! Thanks to our amazing students for the nominations & support - it means the world! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social #EdinArch #Edinburgh #Archaeology #Teaching #EdinburghUni #employability
April 1, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Thurs 3 April 16:15 in the Meadows LT for our ArchSoc/OneHealth Archaeology seminar is @thehem.bsky.social@archanchistleic.bsky.social ‘Body-politics: Untold stories of broken bodies from Iron & Viking-age Scandinavia’ #medievalsky #Vikings #EdinArch #archaeology 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social ⚔️☠️
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Tuesday 1st April (not a joke) is our FMSG seminar at 18:00 in the Meadows LT "The hoards from Norrie’s Law & Gaulcross & the roles of silver in 5th century AD Scotland" @earlymedieval.bsky.social M. Goldberg & F. Hunter @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social #earlymedieval #IronAge #medievalsky #EdinArch
March 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Last week we had a brilliant seminar & workshop by Prof Jacqui Mulville (Cardiff) ‘Craftwork: Heritage, craft & communities'  and 'Guerilla Archaeology - Impact through events' @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch #Edinburgh #heritage #crafting #archaeology #outreach #zooarch #antler #medievalsky
March 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 3yr 1FTE PDRF in cultural evolution of archaeological information using advanced text-mining techniques and statistics START 1 Sep 25 🔗 https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLZ921/post-doctoral-research-fellow ⏰24th March #heritage #job #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
TOMORROW 13 March 16:15 in our seminar series is Prof Jill Burke ‘Renaissance goo: Historic recipes as multidisciplinary trading zones’ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social in the Meadows Lecture Theatre #EdinArch #exarch #archsci #renaissance #history #arthistory #Edinburgh
March 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
TOMORROW Thurs 6 March 16:15 Meadows LT 🍷 ‘Cultural heritage, wine & climate change: thinking through South Africa & Sardinia’ Prof Paul Nugent @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social  🍇 #archaeology #heritage #edinarch #edinburgh #seminar #SouthAfrica #Sardinia #wine #climatechange
March 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
#FindsFriday This amazing stone ball was found thanks to students learning flotation last week! It's from @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social & T. Romankiewicz's #IronAge site in the Scottish Borders. They are thought to be gaming pieces w c. 200 found across ashtag/Scotland%C2%A0@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social%C2%A0%23EdinArch" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#Scotland @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch
February 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM