☠️ Our seminar 15/01 @ 4:15pm is by Prof @ancientchildren.bsky.social "Forgotten Children: The fetal and infant skeletal remains from the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum, New Zealand" @universityofotago.bsky.social NB: this seminar is online only. #edinarch #archaeology #osteology  📷 EDITH LEIGH

📣 Published Open Access! 📣 "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c AD 400-100" 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2025.2583016 by @samleggs22.bsky.social @shakenbeck.bsky.social & O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social 🧬⚛️🧪🦷 #EdinArch #archaeology #medieval

Happy winter break everyone! We will be off socials for a few days, and the university is closed until the 5th of January. But we’ll be back with more exciting Edinburgh Uni archaeology news soon!

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#edinburgh #edinarch #archaeology #winterbreak❄️ #scotland #edinburghuni

📣 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

📣 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

❗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

🎃 ☠️ 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

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 🏺🪨⛰️

📣 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

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

📣 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

📣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

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

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

🥳 @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

📣 NEW #OpenAccess #OpenScience 📄 🦷 article from PhD student Vera Haponava, Dr Linda Fibiger, Prof Catriona Pickard (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social) & Ian (UoE Geosciences) detailing best practice in destructive analysis incl how to 🎦 @edopenresearch.bsky.social #archsci #isotopes #EdinArch #osteology

📣 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

The puppy is bored but I’m having a great time writing about the 11th century in the ☀️ @liabetti.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #normans #earlymedieval #EdinArch #archsci

📣 New FREE access article out from our Dr Sam Leggett & Dr Emma Smith, with @robin-f.bsky.social @bostoncollege.bsky.social using biomolecular archaeology on a cemetery in Alton Hampshire to help reframe the transition to the Early Middle Ages @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch

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

...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

🥳 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

On the way home after our first day working on Finds in Quft! A quick stop for a refreshing watermelon 🍉 on the way back and to welcome our ceramicist who is about to land in Luxor!! @edinarch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Fantastic talk tonight by @thehem.bsky.social on her @erc.europa.eu funded #BodyPolitics Project & @leverhulme.ac.uk Making Oddkin Project for our final @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social seminar of the academic year! #vikings #ironage #archaeology #medievalsky #EdinArch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

🚨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