Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation, entitled Seaweed as food, fodder, and fertiliser: Methods of identification, impacts, and implications of past seaweed use in archaeology.
Magdalena undertook her PhD studies at the UHI Archaeology Institute from 2016-2020, researching past seaweed consumption, and the implications that seaweed consumption by sheep holds for our understanding of the past.
Since November 1, 2020, Magdalena has been working as a postdoc at Human Environment and Bioarchaeology (HEBA), University of Vienna.
In June 2021, Magdalena led an Archaeology Institute UHI seminar on the research, which is available to view here.
