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This is the official Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology part of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. hca.ed.ac.uk/archaeology

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our 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!
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This 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
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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
The Programme (Chronological Order)Thursday 24 September 2026Topic: From Ancient Iran to Central Asia: highlights from recent archaeological fieldwork in Khorasan and the Bukhara OasisSpeaker: Rocco Rante (University Sorbonne-Panthéon, CNRS, ArScAn, UMR 7041)Joint seminar with ClassicsThursday 1 October 2026Topic: Heritage and the Politics of FearSpeaker: Elisabeth Niklasson (University of Aberdeen)ArchSoc SeminarThursday 8 October 2026Topic: Maritime Archaeology of Conflict in Mexico: The Maritime Aspects of the US-Mexican War (1846-1848)Speaker: Jorge Herrera Tovar (Universidad Autonoma de Mexico)Thursday 15 October 2026Topic: Secrecy, Uncertainty, and Erasure: The Fate of British Chemical Weapons Sites after the Second World WarSpeaker: Peter Thorsheim (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)Thursday 22 October 2026Topic: tbcArchSoc SeminarThursday 29 October 2026Topic: Fieldwork updatesSpeaker: Various (University of Edinburgh)Thursday 5 November 2026Topic: Decorated Tombs of Kyushu: Agency and Perception of Burial Space in Late Kofun JapanSpeaker: Claudia Zancan (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, University of East Anglia)Thursday 12 November 2026Topic: Not Just Dots: Mobility and Social Identities during the Late Iron Age on Both Sides of the AlpsSpeaker: Marco Milella (University of Pisa)Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research GroupThursday 19 November 2026Topic: The bioarchaeology of the Norman ConquestSpeaker: Sam Leggett (University of Edinburgh)Joint seminar with One Health Archaeology Research GroupThursday 26 November 2026Topic: Reimagining waste landscapes: the archaeology of new groundSpeaker: Jonathan Gardner (University of Edinburgh)Location: The Sydney Smith lecture room (Doorway 1)Tuesday 1 December 2026Topic: Wogan Cavern: latest results and new excavationsSpeaker: Rob Dinnis (University of Aberdeen) Location: The Meadows Lecture Theatre (Doorway 4)
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socmedarch.bsky.social @socmedarch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Welcome 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.
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Guillaume Robin @guillaume-robin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Flythrough 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.fr
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3d visualisation of a neolithic rock-cut tomb
This 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...
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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
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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
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Congratulations to our own @nubt4.bsky.social! 🥳 #EdinArch #Egyptology #archaeology 🇪🇬
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Last 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 ⚔️🚣🧪🧬🗺️
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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Very much enjoyed @samleggs22.bsky.social's paper as well, on biomolecular approaches to human-environment mobility during the Viking Age! #vikingcongress
Sam Leggett presenting research at the Viking Congress in OsloSam Leggett presenting research at the Viking Congress in Oslo
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So 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
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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
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Chiara 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!
#digitalheritage #heritage #policy #digitalhumanities #publicarchaeology
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Congratulations to all our brilliant students who graduated today! 🎉 🎓👏 #EdinArch #EdinburghUni #Edinburgh #graduation @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Photo of the inside of the Playfair Library at the University of Edinburgh - high Georgian ceilings and columns. A projector screen in blue hues has the school of History, Classics & Archaeology logo with “2026 CONGRATULATIONS” on it.
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Guillaume Robin @guillaume-robin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Just 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)
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That'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
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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Recent 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 #Edinburgh
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Horticultural intensification and plant-based diets of 18th century CE Waikato Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand - Nature Communications
Here, 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…
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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
Photograph from the air of a floodplain. Image courtesy of Barry Molloy.
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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
View of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland UK from the beach. Wallers and two dogs in the midground. Image credit: Alice Wolff. Close up of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland UK from the road. Image credit: Alice Wolff.
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our seminar this week is the Munro Lecture by Professor Agarwal info & 🎫 ⬇️ the lecture is free but booking is essential ☠️
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Fun 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 🏺
Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.Black and white photo of Margaret Stewart at the Carse Farm excavation in 1964. Photo from: https://breadalbane-heritage.org.uk/about/history/margaret-e-c-stewart-in-breadalbane-heritage-society/
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Dr 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
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 03/03/2026
Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.
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A 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violence
Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Interested 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.social
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A 2,850-year-old mass grave in Serbia reveals a shift in prehistoric violence
Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 05/03/2026
Using 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... #InternationalWomensDay
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Molecular memories – tracing early medieval migrations and diet
Using 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
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Dr 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 🛢️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Screenshot of Dr Gardner's magazine article. Full alt-text not provided by author.
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
TOMORROW'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
Top Left: Photograph of V.G. Childe c. 1930s, Australia, Public Domain. Top Right: Photograph of Stuart Piggott, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2741252. Bottom: “Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery” By Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114215413.
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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... 🧵👇
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A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour
In 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...
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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This 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.social
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Mass killing uncovered at ancient burial site | News | The University of Edinburgh
An 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.
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Ian Butler @drbutty.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
As 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.
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Dr Sam Leggett @samleggs22.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Congratulations 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
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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
micro-CT scan cross-sections of metacarpals from the study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70209. Credit: Luisa Less.
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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
Photograph of a Soay Sheep lamb with tags in its ears facing the camera, standing on grass. Source - A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection. Gross L, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/7/2006, e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1479004
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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
Spatial distribution of sites included in the dataset. The size of the circle reflects the number of entries originating from a specific location, while colour intensity reflects their density. The map was created in QGIS 3.34 software using ESRI Terrain basemap.Nested pie charts of the NEENA data. Distribution of the human and animal stable isotopic measurements in NEENA by isotope type and analysed component. Human data 76% collagen (d13C and d15N data predominantly, 1% d34S), 18% enamel, 6% other. Animal data 57% collagen (27% d13C, 27% d15N, 3% d34S), 41% enamel (19% d13C, 19% d18O), 2% other.
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Florian Cousseau @flocousseau.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
I can't wait to present our work on Central Brittany in Edinburgh. Thank you @guillaume-robin.bsky.social for the invitation.
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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
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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Proud 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 beyond
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Silver Beyond Empire @ Sidestone Press
Power 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...
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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/…
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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
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This 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
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This 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!
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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…
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Please 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...
International Fellowships 2026
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Reminder this event is TODAY the 15th of January at 4:15pm GMT - details on our events pages 🔗 hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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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
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Calling 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 👇
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Carnyx be like
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺
The pink feather driver meme, with the flamboyant Carnyx sitting next to the very ordinary Rest Of The Iron Age.
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Findings: (2/2) ✔️ museums have limited capacity to attract adults with authoritarian views and to alter their beliefs Article: doi.org/10.1057/s415...
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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Findings: (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
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