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Category: Seminar

Linkshouse, Stronsay
Mesolithic Outreach Seminar Video

Video: Finding the Mesolithic in Orkney – talk and walk in Stronsay

The recording of Dr Ben Elliot and Dan Lee’s talk, delivered in Stronsay on September 13, 2022

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (11:01pm)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:54am)
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The moai statues of Easter Island. Under threat from climate change. Photograph: Jane Downes.
Climate Change Orkney Rapa Nui Seminar Video

Video: Island Stories – archaeology and climate change

The recording of Professor Jane Downes’s welcome seminar for students, which looks the effect of climate change on archaeological heritage.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (9:00am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:55am)
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Capitulare de villis
Seminar Video Zooarchaeology

Video: ‘Entangled sources’ – zooarchaeology and the economy of Werden Abbey

The recording of May 2022’s UHI Archaeology Institute’s research seminar featuring Nadine Nolde from the University of Cologne.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 30, 2022 (9:38am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:55am)
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Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Seminar Video Viking/Norse

Video: ‘A great show-off’ – carving as an expression of self in the runic inscriptions of Maeshowe

Maeshowe’s runes featured in April’s UHI Archaeology Institute online seminar, which saw Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist present her research on medieval runic graffiti.

By Sigurd TowrieSaturday, April 30, 2022 (11:20am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:57am)
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Art & Archaeology Seminar

Talking bruck – free online seminar on the art and archaeology of waste in Orkney

The art and archaeology of rubbish is the subject of a free online seminar by Dr Antonia Thomas next week.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, April 18, 2022 (12:34pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:04am)
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Research Seminar Video

Video: ‘Roots and routes’: Journey along the Ara Metua

The recording on March’s online research seminar, in which Professor Colin Richards and Professor Jane Downes took us to the Cook Islands.

By Sigurd TowrieSaturday, March 26, 2022 (9:25am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (11:59am)
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Seminar Video

Video: The memorialisation of religious and community identities in Orkney

The recording of February’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, February 25, 2022.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, February 28, 2022 (11:46am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:00pm)
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Pentre Ifan, South Wales. (Professor Colin Richards)
Neolithic Seminar Video

Video: Discussing dolmens – in conversation with Professors Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, Professor Colin Richards of the UHI Archaeology Institute was joined by Professor Vicki Cummings, of the University of Central Lancashire, to discuss prehistoric dolmens – the subject of their recently published book.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, February 3, 2022 (7:40am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:01pm)
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(Kelvin Wilson)
Bronze Age Neolithic Seminar Video

Video: ‘Grave matters: harnessing the enduring power of prehistoric grave goods’

The recording of January’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, January 28, 2022.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, February 2, 2022 (8:00am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:02pm)
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Stromness Museum
Seminar

An evening with Professor Dan Hicks – online talk postponed until 2022

The talk by Professor Dan Hicks, curator of the world-renowned Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, that was due to take place on Wednesday, December 15, has been cancelled.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, December 7, 2021 (2:19pm)Thursday, December 16, 2021 (10:22am)
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Tresness Neolithic Cairn, Sanday
Bronze Age Neolithic Sanday Seminar Video

Video: Tresness – fresh findings from Sanday stalled cairn

The recording of November’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, November 26, 2021.

By Sigurd TowrieSaturday, November 27, 2021 (8:45pm)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:03pm)
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At the site of Cladh Hallan.
Bronze Age Iron Age Neolithic Outreach Seminar Video

Video: Exploring applications of location-based augmented reality in an island landscape

The recording of October’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, October 29, 2021.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, November 1, 2021 (11:42am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:04pm)
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Bone deposit from the Ness of Brodgar
Seminar Zooarchaeology

Video: ‘Of trough and trencher’ – Prof Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture now online

The recording of Professor Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture on Thursday, October 7, 2021.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, October 26, 2021 (7:30am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:05pm)
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Seminar Zooarchaeology

Inaugural professorial lecture explores the archaeology of food, fodder and feasting

Professor Ingrid Mainland of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture online at 4pm today, Thursday.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, October 7, 2021 (7:30am)Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (8:33am)
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Bronze Age Iron Age Seminar Video

Video: ‘Out of the Round: Continuity and connection to landscape in hut circle communities’

Hannah Genders Boyd outlines her research on Bronze and Iron Age roundhouse communities in western Scotland and their relationship with the local environment.

By Sigurd TowrieSaturday, September 25, 2021 (9:56am)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:05pm)
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Mesolithic Seminar Video

Video: Masks Unmasked – tracing traditions of mask wearing in the hunter-gatherer communities of Early Prehistoric Europe

The recording of the first monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar of the 2021/22 season, which took place on Friday, September 3.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, September 6, 2021 (2:13pm)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:06pm)
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Multi-cupmarked stone from Structure Ten.
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Seminar

‘The Ness in Rock and Stone’ – Orkney International Science Festival talk premieres on Sunday

The 31st Orkney Science Festival kicks off today and among the events on offer are talks on the ongoing excavations at the Ness of Brodgar, Orkney.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, September 2, 2021 (7:30am)Wednesday, September 1, 2021 (9:36am)
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Historiska Museet, Sweden
Seminar Viking/Norse

‘Women and men of the Viking Age’ – inaugural professorial lecture from Professor Alexandra Sanmark

Women and men of the Viking Age is the subject of Professor Alexandra Sanmark’s inaugural professorial lecture next month.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, August 23, 2021 (7:30am)Monday, August 23, 2021 (7:38am)
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Orphir shore, Orkney. (Sigurd Towrie)
Seminar Viking/Norse

‘Orphir: A Norse Economic Hub’ – free online seminar begins Scottish Society for Northern Studies’ new series

A talk on Norse period Orphir kicks off the Scottish Society for Northern Studies new season of online seminars next week.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, August 19, 2021 (11:28am)Thursday, August 26, 2021 (8:24pm)
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North Ronaldsay Sheep
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Seminar Video Zooarchaeology

Video: 5,000 years of waiting for the tooth fairy – Ness of Brodgar’s seaweed-eating sheep and the European context

The recording of June 2021’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, June 25.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, June 29, 2021 (5:21pm)Tuesday, April 15, 2025 (12:08pm)
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