Video: Passage Grave Art in Orkney’s North Isles
Passage Grave Art in Orkney’s North Isles, by Dr Antonia Thomas, expands on last week’s talk and looks specifically at the artwork found in Orkney’s Maeshowe-type chambered cairns.
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Video: Art and architecture in Neolithic Orkney
Dr Antonia Thomas sets the scene for her next two talks by exploring Neolithic architecture and art in the islands, with examples from sites such as the Ness of Brodgar, Maeshowe and Skara Brae.
Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part Two)
The second part of Professor Colin Richards’ Tombs of the Isles talk is now online.
Video: Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney (Part One)
The first part of the second talk in the Tombs of the Isles series – Death and burial in Neolithic Orkney, by Professor Colin Richards – is now available online.
Tombs of the Isles – first in a series of recorded talks now online
The first in a series of five videos outlining Neolithic chambered cairns in Orkney’s North Isles is now available in the Tombs of the Isles project section of the website.
Video : ‘Scotland, Jamaica and slavery – a concise history’
The recording of the joint Orkney Heritage Society and UHI Archaeology Institute seminar featuring Kate Phillips, who discusses the unacknowledged black Scottish diaspora in Jamaica, our role in building racism and the unsung Scottish people who gave their lives to ending slavery.
Video – Viking Age fortresses on the North Frisian islands
The recording of April’s research seminar, featuring Dr Martin Segschneider on the Viking Age fortifications in Germany’s North Frisian Islands.
Video: ‘Beyond Hillshade’ – LiDAR visualisation techniques in Orkney
The recording of March’s free research seminar, featuring Crane Begg, from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology, who discussed his project to evaluate different visualisation techniques using LiDAR in Orkney.
Video: history, archaeology and nationalism in Scandinavia
Our free online research seminar this month will look at the use archaeology and history in right-wing political parties in Scandinavia.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Video: ‘Roots and routes’: Journey along the Ara Metua
The recording on March’s online research seminar, in which Professor Colin Richards and Professor Jane Downes took us to the Cook Islands.