Professor Ingrid Mainland, Dr Jen Harland and Dr Julia Cussans presented papers at the recent Association for Environmental Archaeology Conference, held in Stavanger, Norway.
The UHI Archaeology Institute’s plans to establish a new environmental archaeology laboratory in Kirkwall have been approved by Orkney Islands Council.
The summaries for another two Westray sites, surveyed as part of the From Peat Spade to Tangle Trade project are now available online.
The discovery and excavation of an 18th century wreck in Sanday is in the running for Current Archaeology’s 2026 Rescue Project of the Year, with voting now open to the public.
The recording of our latest online seminar, this one featuring Dr Colleen Batey looking at viking grave goods – in particular damaged weaponry.
A film by Art and Archaeology graduate Jamie McNeill has been shown as part of the Neosfest experimental film festival in Mexico.
Human remains are the subject of a postgraduate short-course in Orkney this week, with students travelling from across the UK and USA to take part.
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon was talking Orkney placenames recently at the Scottish Place Name Society Autumn Conference.
The UHI Archaeology Institute marked a major milestone recently with a tenth anniversary celebration at the UHI Orkney campus in Kirkwall.
Dr Antonia Thomas is en route for Finland, where she is an invited speaker on a PhD course at the University of Oulu.
Join the TRANSECTS team in Stromness on Saturday, November 29, to talk marine renewables in Orkney.
A small team of diggers will return to the Ness of Brodgar in 2026, following a major programme of geophysical survey across the site.
UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Kath Page outlines her ongoing research into red deer in prehistory and at the Ness of the Brodgar.
Today was a big day for UHI Orkney with the annual graduation ceremony taking place in St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney.
Earlier this month, Dr Antonia Thomas was joined by several current and former MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology students in Bilbao, in the Basque Country, to attend the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference.
The deadline for applying for a part-funded MRes investigating intertidal peat at the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, is December 3, 2026.
A group of MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology graduates will officially open their exhibition in Stromness with a series of short talks at the Northlight gallery on Thursday, November 20.
‘Animating the Dead: An Archaeology of Bronze Age Burial Practices in Orkney’ by Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards is out now.
