Seminar – Archaeology Orkney

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.

Mesolithic Neolithic Seminar

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.

Research Seminar

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.