Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Our seminar this week has been cancelled due to strike action but will be rescheduled so watch this space later in the year. Sorry for any inconvenience and we look forward to seeing you all at our next event! 000
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyDr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This project is such a fantastic collaboration between @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social & the University library collections teams! We are all learning so much from each other! 📖 📜 ✏️ 🧪🧬🔬🐑🐐🐄🐂 #heritagescience 0156
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🏛️ ArchSoc Archaeology Seminar Series Sem 1 2026/27 📅 Thursdays @ 16:15 📍 Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5 (Old Medical School) 🍷 Stay for the post-seminar reception in the McMillan Room! #Archaeology #Edinburgh #ArchSoc #EdinArch 🔽 for individual details 🎓 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 143
Reposted by Edinburgh Archaeologysocmedarch.bsky.social @socmedarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Welcome back from lunch! Session 3 is underway, taking a deep dive into bioarchaeology, medieval foodways, and childhood isotope analysis across Europe. In this session we have talks from Samantha Jones and colleagues, Sam Leggett, Michelle Alexander and colleagues, and Lucy Koster. 142
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyGuillaume Robin @guillaume-robin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Flythrough video of UNESCO rock-cut tomb site of Mesu ‘e Montes (Ossi, Sardinia) and its decorated tomb 2 dated to the Late Neolithic vimeo.com/1226944957?f... Video made by Lucas Knepper (student at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social ) based on our 2017 3D survey with Florian Soula @inrap.frvimeo.com3d visualisation of a neolithic rock-cut tombThis animation, assembled from 3d data collected by Guillaume Robin (University of Edinburgh) and Florian Soula (INRAP) as well as publicly available terrain data, shows tomb 2 of the neolithic-middle... 154
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyEdinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🚨 We’re HIRING! ☠️ Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology* (full-time, 2-year post starting January 2027). 📅 Application deadline: 14 September 2026🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxrwbh #AcademicJobs #Archaeology #Osteology #Teaching #Edinburgh #EdinArch #HEjobs @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 01110
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026🚨 We’re HIRING! ☠️ Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology* (full-time, 2-year post starting January 2027). 📅 Application deadline: 14 September 2026🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxrwbh #AcademicJobs #Archaeology #Osteology #Teaching #Edinburgh #EdinArch #HEjobs @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 01110
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Congratulations to our own @nubt4.bsky.social! 🥳 #EdinArch #Egyptology #archaeology 🇪🇬 050
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Last week @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's @samleggs22.bsky.social & recently finished PhD Jess Nutt alongside @uoe-llc.bsky.social's Alan Macniven were 3 of Scotland's 🏴 invited delegates to the prestigious 20th Viking Congress in Norway 🇳🇴 www.vikingcongress.net ⚔️🚣🧪🧬🗺️ 082
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyChristian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Very much enjoyed @samleggs22.bsky.social's paper as well, on biomolecular approaches to human-environment mobility during the Viking Age! #vikingcongress 073
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyDr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026So proud of my recently #PhDone student now DR Jess Nutt who presented at #VikingCongress this week about her work on Viking activity in Wales 🏴 ⚔️ 🪙 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social 072
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026 🦴 🔨🪨 Experimental Archaeology in Progress! ⚠️ 🔬 MSc student Kemian Liu has been busy in the labs doing experiments to recreate prehistoric retouchers to scan into GIS for analysis 🌍 💻 #archaeology #EdinArch #edinburgh #prehistoric #exarch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 062
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyChiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 10/07/2026⚡ OUR NEW DIGITAL HOME IS FINALLY LIVE! Discover the Heritage Minds Research Lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, at our brand-new website. 🌐 Enter Heritage Minds 👇 www.heritageminds.org 🙏 Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting us through the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology 2022! 274
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Congratulations to all our brilliant students who graduated today! 🎉 🎓👏 #EdinArch #EdinburghUni #Edinburgh #graduation @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 071
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyGuillaume Robin @guillaume-robin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Just completed another excavation season at Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia), with students from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social and colleagues from @inrap.fr . We worked on a Middle Bronze Age cluster of domestic buildings, incl. a “megaron” (monumental structure with porched entrance) 1102
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026That's a wrap! Another year's training mock excavation for our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students is complete! ☠️ (NB all skeletons are plastic casts). Thanks to Easter Bush Estates for hosting us! #EdinArch #osteo #archaeology #Edinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 093
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyHCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Recent publication! Dr Jonny Geber, Senior Lecturer in @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social at HCA, is co-author. Read, Nature Communications volume 17, Article number: 3040 (2026), edin.ac/4tZvVlD #Archaeology #Anthropology #Palaeoecology #Edinburghedin.acHorticultural intensification and plant-based diets of 18th century CE Waikato Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand - Nature CommunicationsHere, the authors leverage stable isotope and peptide analyses to show that some 18th century Māori individuals ate largely plant-based diets. This work aligns with Māori oral history and… 071
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026🌦️ This week's ArchSoc/Archaeology Research Seminar will be given by Dr Barry Molloy (UCD) “Did climate change cause Bronze Age societies to collapse ca. 1200 BC? A critical perspective from Central Europe” Thurs 26th March 16:15 📍 Meadows LT #EdinArch #Archaeology @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 075
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026🌾 This week's Archaeology seminar is by Dr Alice Wolff @iashedinburgh.bsky.social+@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social fellow "Agriculture & Environment at Bamburgh Castle" 🕰️ 16:15 Thurs 19th March 📍Meadows LT - all welcome! #EdinArch #MedievalSky #archaeology #botany 🪴🏰 @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social 091
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Our seminar this week is the Munro Lecture by Professor Agarwal info & 🎫 ⬇️ the lecture is free but booking is essential ☠️ 010
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Fun fact about us for #InternationalWomensDay - our 1st graduating students were women - Margaret Crichton Mitchell (later Stewart), 1st ever class🥇in #Archaeology MA 1930, PhD 1934 (Childe's only PhD student) & Barbara Laidler our 1st ever BSc Archaeology (c. 1930s)! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🏺 02310
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social featured here as one of the many inspirational women in research funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk #InternationalWomensDay @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyThe Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 03/03/2026Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.tcnv.linkA 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violenceOur study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls. 073
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Interested to hear more about the recent paper by Linda Fibiger et al. on the prehistoric mass grave in Serbia? Then check out Linda and Barry Molloy's write up about it in @uk.theconversation.com doi.org/10.64628/AB.... #Gomolava #EdinArch #Archaeology #FindsFriday @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.socialtheconversation.comA 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violenceOur study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls. 041
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyLeverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/03/2026Using multi-isotope analysis @samleggs22.bsky.social’s Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social focused on the role of food and diet and its link to mobility in early medieval Britain and Ireland. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/sleg... #InternationalWomensDaymedia.leverhulme.ac.ukMolecular memories – tracing early medieval migrations and dietUsing multi-isotope analysis, Sam Leggett’s fellowship focused on the role of food and diet and its link to mobility in early medieval Britain and Ireland 0105
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Dr Gardner’s research is featured in Archaeology Scotland Magazine (Winter 25/26)! It discusses how archaeology can be used to understand our historic & continued reliance on fossil fuels using the example of the oil industry in West Lothian 1851-1962. Check it out! tinyurl.com/mrvp3dcd 🛢️🏴 042
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026TOMORROW's ArchSoc/Archaeology Research Seminar 🕰️ 16:15📍Meadows LT "Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University until about 1990" by Prof Ian Ralston @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social ahead of our 💯 🎂 year as a department! #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh #prehistory 053
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 27/02/2026‼️Published Open Access‼️ by joint 1st authors Dr Linda Fibiger @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & M. Iraeta-Orbegozo in @natureportfolio.nature.com "A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇nature.comA large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human BehaviourIn this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an... 1166
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyHCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026This ERC-funded research is published in Nature Human Behaviour, and was carried out by an international team co-led by the School. Find out more, edin.ac/3OZJHFs #History #Classics #Arcaheology #Edinburgh #Research #Violence @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.socialed.ac.ukMass killing uncovered at ancient burial site | News | The University of EdinburghAn Iron Age burial site has revealed evidence of an unusual mass killing event of women and children, and a detailed plan to bury the victims together. 021
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyIan Butler @drbutty.bsky.social · 12/02/2026As a geologist who likes to read about history and archaeology, it's always a pleasure to be able to contribute to research papers on those topics. 022
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyDr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Congratulations to our former MSc student Luisa and my amazing colleagues Sophie and @drbutty.bsky.social on a very cool CT method paper with some interesting implications about osteoporosis in medieval Scotland #MedievalSky #edinarch 173
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 12/02/2026📣 Published #OpenAccess in AJBA @bioanth.org 📣 “The Use of Micro-CT Analysis of the Second Metacarpal to Assess Cortical Bone Loss in Archeological Human Skeletal Remains” by Luisa Less, @drbutty.bsky.social & Dr SL Newman onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🩻 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 1/3 175
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026‼️Published @royalsociety.org Open Science‼️ "From rugged isles to managed pastures: morphological changes in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) metacarpal bones following anthropogenic translocation" @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🐑🐏 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @soaysheep.bsky.social 1147
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 10/02/2026📣 New #OpenAccess Dataset 📣 led by @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Vera Haponava (PhD candidate), Prof Catriona Pickard & Ricardo Fernandes "The North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia isotopic dataset of bioarchaeological samples (NEENA)" 🔗 rdcu.be/e2kNw 🧪 18700+ measurements! #IsoMemo #Pandora #NEENA 042
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyFlorian Cousseau @flocousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I can't wait to present our work on Central Brittany in Edinburgh. Thank you @guillaume-robin.bsky.social for the invitation. 011
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026🇫🇷 Thursday’s Research Seminar 12/2/26 @16:15 in the Meadows LT will be given by Dr Florian Cousseau (Durham) “Central #Brittany in the Middle #Neolithic: A Landscape Far from Empty” 🔗https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminars @hcaatedinburgh #edinarch #archaeology 033
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyAdrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Proud of my colleagues @earlymedieval.bsky.social et al. I saw the years of work that went into this firsthand. Available NOW, free to read online, completely beautiful and packed with discoveries rewriting the end of Empire in Britain and beyondsidestone.comSilver Beyond Empire @ Sidestone PressPower and prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. These precious metals underpinned the emergence of early Medieval k... 1186
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026☠️ The next Munro Lecture 12/03/26 is by Professor Sabrina C. Agarwal @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social 'Necropolitics in the collection: From colonial legacy to antiracist futures' FREE but booking is essential 🔗 hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/… 042
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026🦴 This week's ArchSoc/One Health Archaeology Research Group seminar will be by Simon Mays (Historic England) 'Osteoporosis past and present: Age-related deterioration in the nano-platelets of bone hydroxyapatite'. 🕰️📍 Thurs 5th February, Meadows LT, 16:15pm - all welcome! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 054
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026This Thurs 29 Jan the ArchSoc Archaeology research seminar is by Anna van der Weij PhD candidate @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social "Constructing the Limes: Burial Culture in Roman Period Netherlands" 🇳🇱 🕰️ 4:15pm in the Meadows LT @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social All welcome! #EdinArch #Roman #archaeology 031
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This seminar is on TODAY (Thurs 22nd of March) at 4:15pm in the Meadows Lecture Theatre! It’s FREE and open to all to attend! 161
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 19/01/2026☠️ This week’s OHA/ArchSoc research seminar is by Dr Jess Thompson (National Museums Scotland) “Curating Scotland’s Archaeological Human Remains: Past, Present & Future” 22/01 @ 16:15 in the Meadows LT 📷 Credit: Neil Hanna hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/res… 061
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche... 1173250
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Reminder this event is TODAY the 15th of January at 4:15pm GMT - details on our events pages 🔗 hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... 010
Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 13/01/2026☠️ Our seminar 15/01 @ 4:15pm is by Prof @ancientchildren.bsky.social "Forgotten Children: The fetal and infant skeletal remains from the W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum, New Zealand" @universityofotago.bsky.social NB: this seminar is online only. #edinarch #archaeology #osteology 📷 EDITH LEIGH 071
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyTaylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Calling all medieval scholars - uncover the gendered, continuous migration that shaped early England! ⚔️🧬 This #OpenAccess study presents the results of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c. AD 400–1100 👇 074
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyDurotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Carnyx be like 011821
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 08/01/2026January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺 1649488
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyChiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Findings: (2/2) ✔️ museums have limited capacity to attract adults with authoritarian views and to alter their beliefs Article: doi.org/10.1057/s415... 052
Reposted by Edinburgh ArchaeologyChiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Findings: (1/2) ✔️ visitors’ views do not align with the positions implied by the historical analogies used in exclusive nationalist discourse ✔️ most participants hold critical and non-binary understandings of the Iron Age and Roman past, as well as liberal values 132