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PhD thesis earns prize for UHI Archaeology Institute researcher

Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation.
Dr Magdalena Blanz.

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.