Wild things – investigating prehistoric red deer in Scotland’s islands
Two zooarchaeologists from the UHI Archaeology Institute are among the researchers looking at the role of red deer in the prehistory of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
Category: Bronze Age
Video: In the Heart of Beyond – Hebridean Neolithic and Bronze Age population movements
The recording of September 2022’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar featuring Mairi MacLean.
Intensely moved by the human stories at launch of ‘World of Stonehenge’
Dr Antonia Thomas was in London last week and attended the official launch of the World of Stonehenge at the British Museum.
Student work placements at Bronze Age excavations in Perth
The UHI Archaeology Institute has 12 student work placements available on four Bronze Age sites in Perth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations Hannah! Institute’s first MRes passes with flying colours
University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research postgraduate student Hannah Genders Boyd has been awarded her Masters by Research (MRes) – the institute’s first.
‘Uist Unearthed’ augmented reality app launched
A smartphone app to allow visitors to experience some of the Western Isles’ most significant archaeological sites as never before was launched on Monday.
Immerse yourself in Uist’s archaeology with new phone app
A smartphone app launching this month will allow visitors to experience some of the Western Isles’ most significant archaeological sites as never before.
The middle Bronze Age revolution? A research seminar
Oxford Archaeology is hosting an online research seminar next month detailing their recent excavations of middle Bronze Age settlement sites from across southern Britain.
Decorated rock discovered at Orkney’s Bay of Skaill
The Bay of Skaill is renowned for the coastal erosion that plagues it and which, in early January, led to the discovery of a large incised rock on the shoreline.
Co-authored by Archaeology Institute professor, first volume of new Stonehenge tetralogy launched
In 2003, a team of archaeologists from five universities began the first long-term programme of fieldwork focused on Stonehenge in decades.
Nine possible Bronze Age figurines unearthed at substation excavation in Orkney?
A team from ORCA has discovered an amazing series of half-metre tall stone-carved objects during exploratory excavations connected with the development of an electrical substation on behalf of SSEN Transmission in Orkney.
A summer of archaeology in Orkney – Part Two
This is the second in a series of blog posts looking at the main findings from the excavations undertaken by the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute during the summer of 2018. This time we examine the fascinating excavations on Sanday – one of the northern most islands in Orkney.
Summer of digging – Sanday update by UHI student Ross
Summer of digging – Sanday update by UHI student Ross
Cata Sand excavation – first update
The excavation of the recently discovered late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age settlement dating to c.2500-2000BC is now under way. It is early days, but already the team are beginning to unearth finds.