Researcher bound for Orkney on three-month scholarship exchange
The UHI Archaeology Institute will host a researcher from India in April as part of an international programme run by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH).
Category: Zooarchaeology
PhD thesis earns prize for UHI Archaeology Institute researcher
Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation.
New book to bring Viking studies into 21st century
Professor Ingrid Mainland is one of the authors in a major new publication on Viking and Norse Age Scotland.
Wild things – investigating prehistoric red deer in Scotland’s islands
Two zooarchaeologists from the UHI Archaeology Institute are among the researchers looking at the role of red deer in the prehistory of Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.
New paper: Life and death of sheep and deer at the Ness of Brodgar
Professor Ingrid Mainland and Nick Card are among the authors of a new paper on the faunal remains from the Ness of Brodgar.
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.
Norse feasting on the menu at 2022 Orkney International Science Festival
Professor Ingrid Mainland, of the UHI Archaeology Institute, will be joined by Dr Colleen Batey next week for a talk on feasting in Norse Orkney.
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.
Runner-up spot for UHI seaweed-consumption research poster
At the UK Archaeological Science conference in Aberdeen, Dr Magdalena Blanz and colleagues won the runner-up poster prize for early career researchers.
Tomb researchers investigate Neolithic life around the Knap of Howar
Questions regarding Knap of Howar in Papa Westray, Orkney, have resurfaced following the discovery of eroding midden material to the south of the iconic Neolithic structures.
Investigating the genetics of historic right whales in eastern North Atlantic
The UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Ingrid Mainland and Martin Carruthers are co-authors of a new paper on the genetics of North Atlantic right whales – the rarest of all large cetaceans.
Chemical evidence of seaweed consumption in sheep – new paper available online
A new paper co-authored by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Professor Ingrid Mainland is now available online.
Video: ‘Of trough and trencher’ – Prof Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture now online
The recording of Professor Ingrid Mainland’s inaugural professorial lecture on Thursday, October 7, 2021.
Inaugural professorial lecture explores the archaeology of food, fodder and feasting
Professor Ingrid Mainland of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture online at 4pm today, Thursday.
Analysis of Cata Sand shells and whalebone under way
Analysis of the whalebone and shells recovered during the excavations at Cata Sand, Sanday, Orkney, is under way at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute.
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.
New paper – evidence of the grey whale at Scottish archaeological sites
A new paper co-authored by the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute’s Dr Ingrid Mainland and Martin Carruthers was launched today and is free to access online.
Zooarchaeology session at Slovenian Science Festival
What animal remains can tell us about life in Viking Age Orkney is the subject of a University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute talk at the Slovenian Science Festival this afternoon.
Funded PhD Opportunity – human/animal interaction in Wales (AD700-1000)
Cardiff University and the National Museum Wales have a fully funded collaborative doctoral studentship available focusing on human/animal interactions in Wales between AD700-1000.