A researcher analysing organic residue on Ness of Brodgar pottery sherds, has been awarded the Royal Archaeological Institute (RAI) prize for science on the archaeology of Britain and Ireland.
Julia Becher received her prize after delivering her presentation, Feasting at the Ness of Brodgar? Tracing subsistence patterns during the Late Neolithic, Britain using organic residue analysis, at the 2024 UK Archaeological Sciences (UKAS) conference in York last week.
Her presentation focused on the Ness of Brodgar lipid dataset, which is made up of over 300 samples obtained by Julia as part of her PhD at the University of York and Université Côte d’Azur.
The UHI Archaeology Institute is a collaborator in the project, which is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme ChemArch.
The Ness of Brodgar excavation is run by the UHI Archaeology Institute in conjunction with the Ness of Brodgar Trust.
