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.
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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.
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.
Video: Tresness – fresh findings from Sanday stalled cairn
The recording of November’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, November 26, 2021.
Video: Exploring applications of location-based augmented reality in an island landscape
The recording of October’s UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar, which took place on Friday, October 29, 2021.
Video: ‘Out of the Round: Continuity and connection to landscape in hut circle communities’
Hannah Genders Boyd outlines her research on Bronze and Iron Age roundhouse communities in western Scotland and their relationship with the local environment.
Video: Masks Unmasked – tracing traditions of mask wearing in the hunter-gatherer communities of Early Prehistoric Europe
The recording of the first monthly UHI Archaeology Institute research seminar of the 2021/22 season, which took place on Friday, September 3.
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.
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.
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.