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Category: Zooarchaeology

Basking seals
Research Zooarchaeology

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).

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, February 1, 2023 (7:30am)Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (7:33am)
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Seaweed featured image
Postgraduate Student Stories 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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, January 31, 2023 (9:00am)Wednesday, February 1, 2023 (7:32am)
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Publications Viking/Norse Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, December 15, 2022 (12:19pm)Thursday, December 15, 2022 (12:20pm)
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deer fighting with their antlers
Bronze Age Neolithic Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, December 9, 2022 (8:40am)Thursday, December 8, 2022 (12:01am)
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Visitors at Ness of Brodgar
Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Post-excavation Research Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieMonday, November 21, 2022 (8:00am)Monday, November 21, 2022 (3:46pm)
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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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Viking/Norse Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, August 26, 2022 (8:30am)Wednesday, August 24, 2022 (7:16pm)
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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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Seaweed featured image
Post-excavation Research Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, April 29, 2022 (3:00pm)Monday, January 30, 2023 (12:02pm)
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Picture: Jane Downes
Neolithic Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, March 23, 2022 (7:09pm)Monday, May 2, 2022 (11:05am)
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Female right whale with calf (Wikimedia Commons)
Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, February 15, 2022 (3:44pm)Tuesday, February 15, 2022 (3:44pm)
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North Ronaldsay Sheep
Publications Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieWednesday, February 2, 2022 (10:42am)Wednesday, February 2, 2022 (10:49am)
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Bone deposit from the Ness of Brodgar
Seminar Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieTuesday, October 26, 2021 (7:30am)Monday, October 25, 2021 (3:55pm)
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Seminar Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieThursday, October 7, 2021 (7:30am)Wednesday, October 27, 2021 (8:33am)
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Cata Sand Neolithic Sanday Zooarchaeology

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.

by Sigurd TowrieFriday, July 2, 2021 (3:00pm)Friday, July 2, 2021 (8:07pm)
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