Step back in time with updated booklet on Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre
A revised and updated booklet outlining the archaeology and history of Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre is now available to download.
Category: Publications
‘Landscapes Revealed’ named book of the year at Current Archaeology awards
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.
New book to bring Viking studies into 21st century
Professor Ingrid Mainland is one of the authors in a major new publication on Viking and Norse Age Scotland.
Neolithic house societies in Orkney – download book for free
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney: Investigations in the Bay of Firth, Mainland, Orkney (1994–2014), edited by Colin Richards and Richard Jones, is available as a free PDF via Oxbow books.
Vote now – ‘Landscapes Revealed’ in running for Current Archaeology Book of the Year
Our book ‘Landscapes Revealed’ has been nominated for Book of the Year in the Current Archaeology Awards.
‘They are preserved forever’ – research paper appears in new open access publication
A paper by Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr James Moore is among those found in a new open access publication, “Unlocking Sacred Landscapes: Religious and Insular Identities in Context”.
Two new books from Mark Edmonds
News just in of two new books by our friend Mark Edmonds, Visiting Professor at the UHI Archaeology Institute and Research Coordinator at the Ness of Brodgar.
Chemical evidence of seaweed consumption in sheep – new paper available online
A new paper co-authored by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Ingrid Mainland is now available online.
New book focuses on the archaeology of the medieval Maldives
UHI Archaeology Institute team is one of the co-editors of a new book on the archaeology of the Maldives.
New book explores the Early Neolithic monuments built to enchant
An exciting new perspective on prehistoric dolmens awaits readers of a new book by Professor Colin Richards of the UHI Archaeology Institute and Prof Vicki Cummings of the University of Central Lancashire.
New paper – evidence of the grey whale at Scottish archaeological sites
A new paper co-authored by the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dr Ingrid Mainland and Martin Carruthers was launched today and is free to access online.
Call for papers – Visiting the Past: A Re-enactment Handbook
In this call for papers, we welcome contributions on how to practically go about organising re-enactments, from, for example, re-enactors, guides, museum curators and educators, experimental archaeologists, historians, and teachers.
Ness of Brodgar interim monograph back in stock
After the first print-run of 1,000 copies sold out in January – just over two months after its release – The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands is available to buy again.
Researchers suggest Stonehenge’s first stone circle was transplanted from Welsh hillside
Professor Colin Richards, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, is co-author of a new paper proposing that a stone circle in Wales was the source of the first megaliths erected at the site of Stonehenge.
Ness of Brodgar book a best-seller with second print run under way
Less than two months since its launch, the third volume in the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute research series has almost sold out.
Introducing the forthcoming Ness of Brodgar book
Nick Card and Anne Mitchell of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute introduce the forthcoming interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands.
‘The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands’ – November launch for third volume of UHI Archaeology Institute’s research series
A November release date has been set for the third volume of the UHI Archaeology Institute’s research series.
Landscapes Revealed – second volume of UHI Archaeology Institute research series out now
A substantial Neolithic settlement at the north-western end of the Ness of Brodgar is one of hundreds of new archaeological sites outlined in a new book from the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute.
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.
UHI academics contribute to international Viking DNA research project
Two academics from the University of the Highlands and Islands were part of an international team of researchers involved in a project hailed as “the world’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons”.