New project to document endangered heritage sites in Pacific islands
The UHI Archaeology Institute is one of the partners in a new research project to assess methods to document endangered cultural heritage sites in the Cook Islands and Niue.
Category: Climate Change
Video: Island Stories – archaeology and climate change
The recording of Professor Jane Downes’s welcome seminar for students, which looks the effect of climate change on archaeological heritage.
Archaeology and Climate Change – free talk by institute director in Stromness
Professor Jane Downes, the director of the UHI Archaeology Institute, will deliver a free talk in the Stromness Golf Club, Orkney, next Friday evening.
Get up close to Skara Brae with new 3D model of 5,000-year-old settlement
A new 3D model of Skara Brae is offering online visitors an immersive digital experience of the 5,000-year-old Neolithic settlement in Orkney.
Archaeology Institute director delivers 2021 Dalrymple Lectures
Professor Jane Downes will be in Glasgow next month to deliver the 2021 prestigious Dalrymple Lectures.
The lectures are taking place during COP26 and explore the role of archaeology and heritage in addressing the central concerns of this global meeting.
Talks consider how Westray can adapt to the impact of climate change
On Thursday evening, Professor Jane Downes will deliver a talk in Westray on her research into climate change causes and effects and how these impact our communities.
Online seminar to explore impact of climate change on culture and heritage
Climate change and its effect on culture and heritage is the subject of a CVI Africa online seminar next week.
‘Gateway to the Atlantic’ project outlined at international science coalition’s inaugural assembly
A presentation on the Orkney Gateway to the Atlantic project was delivered by Dr Ingrid Mainland, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, on Monday as part of the inaugural assembly of the BRIDGES UNESCO Sustainability Science Coalition.
Official launch for CVI Africa project
To mark Africa Day, a new international project focusing on the impact of climate change on African heritage sites officially launches today, May 25.
Coastal erosion at Skara Brae in the spotlight
Julie Gibson, Orkney’s county archaeologist and UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer, features on tonight’s BBC1 Scotland programme Disclosure: how you can stop climate change at 7.30pm.
‘Learning from Northern people’ seminar on Friday
What the people of the Arctic can teach us to help respond to climate change is the subject of a University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research seminar this Friday, November 27.
Orkney experience contributes to African climate-change project
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute is part of a new project focusing on the impact of climate change on African heritage sites.
Online seminar: The lost township of Broo – climate change or human agency in a coastal sand disaster?
Today, the latest University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Research seminar considers geocatastrophe, using a lost Shetland township as an example.
Climate change and heritage – online talk by Archaeology Institute director
University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute Professor Jane Downes will present her research on climate change and heritage to an international audience next week.
University of the Highlands and Islands archaeologists lead in international climate change action
The Climate Risk Assessment for Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Property Report, was published this week and launched at the UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting held on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Orkney hosts international workshop on climate change threat to World Heritage Sites
The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and Orkney College UHI are hosting a major three-day workshop this week where leading climate scientists and heritage professionals from across the globe are gathering to apply a new tool for measuring the climate change threat to World Heritage sites.
Coastal erosion in Rapa Nui (Easter Island)
In this article, researchers from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and Bournemouth University examine the impacts of coastal erosion in Easter Island.
The impact of climate change on archaeological heritage
Research, undertaken by academics at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, details the impact of climate change on archaeological heritage on different sides of the world.