Category: Research
New Research – trading identities and Viking horse burials in Scotland
New research by University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute PhD student Siobhan Cooke, explores the use of animals, particularly horses, in Viking funerary rituals across Scotland and how these rituals were used to help develop a cultural identity in the rapidly expanding Viking realm.
Big Fish, Little Fish..Medieval and Post-Medieval Fishing in the Northern Isles
Archaeomagnetic dating for the Scottish Neolithic
The investigation of archaeological material for dating using magnetic methods is usually referred to as archaeomagnetism. Archaeomagnetism has been utilised as a method for dating fired and heated archaeological material successfully for a number of decades.
Map Orkney Month: New Paper Published
A splash of colour from the Iron Age
Two tiny beads from The Cairns Iron Age site, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
Did Orcadian tombs align with solar events ?
Research conducted by Andrea Boyar BA, postgraduate student at the UHI Archaeology Institute.
‘Toiling with Teeth’ – research paper published
A key goal for archaeozoology is to define and characterise pastoral farming strategies – how did people in the Middle Iron Age / Viking Late Norse period organise their farming?
Using archaeomagnetic dating at the Ness of Brodgar
A new website has been set up by Sam Harris, who is undertaking PhD research into archaeomagnetic dating based on samples he has taken at the Ness of Brodgar.
What did Bronze Age people hear ?
Archaeoacoustics is a relatively new and emerging multidiscipline that studies the behaviour of sound within ancient sites and structures.
How did the Neolithic Orcadians keep dry ?
This project looked at the roofing flagstones from the Ness of Brodgar.
Castle seasonality a Pool Neolithic settlement – new research paper published
Dr Ingrid Mainland (second author) has had a paper published, Calving Seasonality at Pool, Orkney during the first millennium AD : An investigation using intra tooth isotope ratio analysis of cattle molar enamel.