The cult of Orkney’s patron saint – St Magnus – in Caithness is the subject of a new paper by Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr James Moore in a special issue of the Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies.
‘Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney’ by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards is out now.
Two chapters from UHI Archaeology Institute contributors feature in a new book looking at social and economic interaction in the medieval and early modern European countryside.
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The archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.
Dr Jen Harland and PhD student Holly Young are among the contributors in a special issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.
The annual Orkney Archaeology Review, published by Orkney Archaeology Society, has been arriving through members’ letterboxes this week.
UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon is one of the contributors to a new book to be launched next month.
Professor Colin Richards latest book, Stone Circles: A Field Guide, has been nominated for Book of the Year in the 2025 Current Archaeology Awards.
An article on the Orkney witchcraft trials by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland features in a new book due out next March.
Dr Antonia Thomas is one of the authors included in a new publication, The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Plastics.
The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Colin Richards talks to BBC Radio Orkney about his new book, ‘Stone Circles: A Field Guide’.
The stone circles of Britain and Ireland are the subject of a new book from Professors Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings.
A peer-reviewed paper by Andrew Fitches, a graduate of our MLitt in Archaeological Studies programme, and Dr Ben Elliot has been published in the EXARC Journal.
The final comments in an invited debate over colonial legacies within European Prehistory have now been published, open access, by the Norwegian Archaeological Review.
A revised and updated booklet outlining the archaeology and history of Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre is now available to download.
Landscapes Revealed: geophysical survey in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Area, 2002-2011 has been named Current Archaeology’s book of the year 2023.
Professor Ingrid Mainland is one of the authors in a major new publication on Viking and Norse Age Scotland.
