We’re staying in the Western Isles for the next UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which will see Professor Mike Parker Pearson explore Life and Death in the Bronze Age: mummies, metalworking and much more at Cladh Hallan on Friday.
Excavations at Cladh Hallan, South Uist, revealed a deep stratified sequence from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, including burials and roundhouses unusually well preserved in the machair sand.
A wide range of analyses – from artefacts and faunal remains to isotopes and ancient DNA – revealed a remarkably detailed picture of life and death, status and kinship, local lifeways and long-distance exchange in this island community over more than a thousand years.
The seminar, on Friday, March 20, at 4pm, can be joined online (via Microsoft Teams) or in person at the UHI Orkney lecture room.
