Video: 5,000 years of waiting for the tooth fairy – Ness of Brodgar’s seaweed-eating sheep and the European context
The recording of June 2021’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, June 25.
Category: Seminar
A busy season for research seminars
Since January, almost 900 people have joined us for the live, monthly UHI Archaeology Institute seminars, organised by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland and which covered a range of archaeological topics.
Video: Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands
The recording of May 2021’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, June 4.
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.
Video: The Cochno Stone and Faifley Rocks! – community archaeology and rock-art
A recording of April 2021’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on April 30.
Video: Rethinking Scotland’s Neolithic carved stone balls
Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, a senior curator of prehistory at the National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, and a visiting reader at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, presents the most recent research on prehistoric carved stone balls.
Video: A new set of threads: the production and design of ‘Into the Wildwoods’ and ‘The First Foresters’
Matt Ritchie, an archaeologist with Forestry and Land Scotland, outlines the development and production of the Into the Wildwoods (2020) and The First Foresters (2019) booklets followed by an question-and-answer session.
Video: Whisky distilling in the Highlands and Islands: missing pieces of our post-medieval archaeology
Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, Darroch demonstrates how his research has attempted to integrate the distilling of whisky into the archaeology of the region and how the historical archaeology of distilling fits into an expanding understanding of rural commercial practice.
‘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.
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.
Online UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar
In this period of Lockdown, The University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute invite you to attend a digital research seminar on Friday 24th April 2020 at 4pm BST. Everyone is welcome to dial in…not just UHI students.
April ‘Ruination and Decay’ seminar
The next seminar in the University of the Highlands and Islands HARC ‘Ruination and Decay’ series is to be held on Thursday 25th April.
What makes ruination and decay attractive?
In this article, Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, Orkney College UHI , talks about the attraction of the theme – Ruination & Decay.