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Category: Seminar

Plan of The Cairns Excavation
Iron Age Seminar The Cairns

Seminar: new thoughts on Iron Age stalled buildings of northern Scotland

The first UHI Archaeology Institute online research seminar of 2023 takes place next week and will see Martin Carruthers and Scott Timpany casting a fresh eye on Iron Age stalled buildings.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, January 25, 2023 (12:27pm)Wednesday, January 25, 2023 (12:35pm)
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Whale manuscript
Cata Sand Seminar The Cairns Zooarchaeology

Video – the history and archaeology of North Atlantic whales

The recording of November’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, From the Cairns to Cata Sand: The history and archaeology of North Atlantic cetaceans, featuring Dr Vicki Szabo, from Western Carolina University, and our very own Dr Jen Harland.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, November 19, 2022 (4:18pm)Saturday, November 19, 2022 (4:18pm)
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Post-excavation Seminar Zooarchaeology

Video : domestic mammal biometry in the North Atlantic region

The recording of October 2022’s monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, featuring Dr Julia Cussans, who outlines her PhD research into size and shape changes in domestic mammal bones in the North Atlantic region.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, October 31, 2022 (8:02am)Monday, October 31, 2022 (8:03am)
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Hebridean beach. Wikimedia Commons.
Bronze Age Neolithic Seminar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, October 3, 2022 (11:47am)Monday, October 3, 2022 (11:47am)
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Raggie and the Raven Banner
Seminar

Video: Viking Hiking – Travels in Time and Space

The recording of Dr Ragnhild Ljosland’s seminar, delivered on Thursday, September 15, as part of the UHI interdisciplinary research theme Enchantment and Won

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, September 17, 2022 (6:10pm)Saturday, September 17, 2022 (6:16pm)
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Linkshouse, Stronsay
Mesolithic Outreach Seminar

Video: Finding the Mesolithic in Orkney – talk and walk in Stronsay

The recording of Dr Ben Elliot and Dan Lee’s talk, delivered in Stronsay on September 13, 2022

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (11:01pm)Friday, September 23, 2022 (2:27pm)
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The moai statues of Easter Island. Under threat from climate change. Photograph: Jane Downes.
Climate Change Orkney Rapa Nui Seminar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, September 16, 2022 (9:00am)Thursday, September 15, 2022 (2:31pm)
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Capitulare de villis
Seminar Zooarchaeology

Video: ‘Entangled sources’ – zooarchaeology and the economy of Werden Abbey

The recording of May 2022’s UHI Archaeology Institute’s research seminar featuring Nadine Nolde from the University of Cologne.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 30, 2022 (9:38am)Monday, May 30, 2022 (9:40am)
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Maeshowe interior. (Jim Richardson)
Seminar Viking/Norse

Video: ‘A great show-off’ – carving as an expression of self in the runic inscriptions of Maeshowe

Maeshowe’s runes featured in April’s UHI Archaeology Institute online seminar, which saw Dr Karen Langsholt Holmqvist present her research on medieval runic graffiti.

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, April 30, 2022 (11:20am)Thursday, May 5, 2022 (1:04pm)
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Art & Archaeology Seminar

Talking bruck – free online seminar on the art and archaeology of waste in Orkney

The art and archaeology of rubbish is the subject of a free online seminar by Dr Antonia Thomas next week.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, April 18, 2022 (12:34pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:04am)
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Ness of Brodgar
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Seminar

Video: Connections across Britain and Ireland during the age of Stonehenge

Nick Card, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute and director of the Ness of Brodgar excavation, was a speaker in a British Museum talk last week on links between Neolithic Orkney and the rest of Britain and Ireland.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, April 12, 2022 (7:17am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:08am)
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Research Seminar

Video: ‘Roots and routes’: Journey along the Ara Metua

Register now for March’s free UHI Archaeology Seminar – “Roots and Routes in Polynesia: investigating the fabulous Ara Metua and the colonisation of Rarotonga”

by Sigurd TowrieSaturday, March 26, 2022 (9:25am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:05am)
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Picture: Sigurd Towrie
Seminar

Video: The memorialisation of religious and community identities in Orkney

The recording of February’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, February 25, 2022.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, February 28, 2022 (11:46am)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:10am)
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Pentre Ifan, South Wales. (Professor Colin Richards)
Neolithic Seminar

Video: Discussing dolmens – in conversation with Professors Colin Richards and Vicki Cummings

On Tuesday, February 1, 2022, Professor Colin Richards of the UHI Archaeology Institute was joined by Professor Vicki Cummings, of the University of Central Lancashire, to discuss prehistoric dolmens – the subject of their recently published book.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, February 3, 2022 (7:40am)Wednesday, February 2, 2022 (6:56pm)
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(Kelvin Wilson)
Bronze Age Neolithic Seminar

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.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, February 2, 2022 (8:00am)Monday, January 31, 2022 (10:08am)
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Stromness Museum
Seminar

An evening with Professor Dan Hicks – online talk postponed until 2022

The talk by Professor Dan Hicks, curator of the world-renowned Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Oxford, that was due to take place on Wednesday, December 15, has been cancelled.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, December 7, 2021 (2:19pm)Thursday, December 16, 2021 (10:22am)
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