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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Scanning, printing, cleaning, curing, and voila - bone clone! @ukri.org
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Our first 3D print of a bone! This medieval cattle metacarpal might not look like much but it means we are in business in our RICHeS Ark of the North lab - next stop, scanning and printing A WHOLE BEAR SKELETON 🐻 🦴 @ukri.org
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our first 3D object printed using our new Form 4 machine - tiny, and incredibly detailed! (Ok, it’s not a bone but at least it has a wee beastie on it) 🐉 @ukri.org
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Training today with our whizzy new 3D printer in our RICHeS Ark of the North facility @ukri.org
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming our new cohort of MSc students to Aberdeen this Autumn! Not got your application in yet? Don’t panic, there’s still time! Check out our courses here: www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/...
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Archaeology | School of Geosciences | The University of Aberdeen
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Our MSc students are up in beautiful Shetland this week, exploring the Viking archaeology and other wonderful sites. A sunny evening here at Belmont longhouse on Unst ☀️
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Come work with us in Aberdeen! Check out this 10 month full time teaching replacement post in Cultural Heritage, cover for Dr Elisabeth Niklasson on her research leave www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/teac...
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Teaching Fellow (GEO485A) | University of Aberdeen
We are seeking a 1.0 FTE Teaching Fellow in Cultural Heritage for a 10-month post to provide undergraduate and postgraduate teaching cover for a faculty member on research leave.
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
👀 check this out! Fully-funded phd opportunity on the isotope palaeoecology of MIS5e fauna in Britain - open to U.K. and international students. Deadline January 14th 2026!
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are so proud of you @elisabethniklasson.bsky.social !!! Leverhulme Prize Winner for Archaeology 2025!!!
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Welcoming our MSc cohort! Great to meet so many new faces, and many of our returning undergraduates too, now joining us for our Archaeology, Arch of the North, Osteoarch, Bioarch, Biomols and Cultural Heritage programmes 🧑‍🎓
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This weekend we’ve been out with our third year UoA UG students investigating shell Middens at the Sands of Forvie on the Ythan estuary. Around 15 years ago we dug a series of middens at Forvie that turned out to be Pictish in date. Will this prove to be another example!? Early results look 👌
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
We are over the moon! Our archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen ranked no. 1 in the UK for Archaeology and Forensic Sciences in The Times Good University Guide 2026. Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Our field season at the historic Old Kinord settlement is a wrap! The #archaeology of standing buildings is like an iceberg! The simple, surface story gives way to complex biographies that hint at changes in use, and how dwellings were maintained, altered and abandoned🪏
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Come and meet the PALaEoScot team this Sunday 14th 11am-4pm at our old aberdeen campus
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Drs Jeff Oliver and Michael Stratigos are running our historical archaeology field school out at Loch Kinord - revealing secrets of past Scottish farming practices and rural life just under the surface!
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
A Nature feature highlights recently published research by a member of our team on an ancient Egyptian genome, placing it in the context of ongoing and future genomics research in Egypt: www.nature.com/articles/d44...
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Mummy DNA sheds light on Egypt’s diverse past
Genome analysis of a 4,500-year-old mummy reveals North African and Iraqi ancestry, as Egypt embarks on an ambitious project to decode the DNA of 200 mummies and 100,000 citizens.
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Day Three is excursion day at the SEAA 2025 conference here in Aberdeen and our delegates have been touring north-east Scotland’s beautiful and bountiful archaeology. From stone circles to Pictish forts!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
There was a shout for find of the day at 9:21am this morning and it did indeed turn out to be the find of the day - found by our University of Aberdeen Certificate student Andy! What a beauty of a bone pin from the Pictish fort at Burghead! #historicenvironmentscotland @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Day two of the SEAA 2025 conference in Aberdeen is off to a flying (and rather metallurgic) start! Now for refuelling in beautiful Elphinstone Hall 😋
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Yesterday saw a wonderful first day at the SEAA conference which we have the privellge of hosting this year. Fantastic talks, wonderful food, restorative chats, and a warm welcome at the Town House by the Lord Provost!
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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
One of our @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social lecturer's recently had an article in Nature, and published a research briefing to go along with. www.nature.com/articles/d41... These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience
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A genome from ancient Egypt
Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/07/2025
Antiquity authors feature on the @archpodnet.bsky.social Heritage Voices podcast to discuss the Nunalleq Digital Museum🏺 It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community. buff.ly/LMoInPr
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 15/07/2025
Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast! Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY
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Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past - Volume 99 Issue 405
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This week #PALaEoScot has been part of a team testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Late Glacial/early Holocene archaeology (or palaeontology!). So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 @ukri.org @willmills.bsky.social
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Aberdeen's Jeff Oliver along with a team from Sheffield, Eryri National Park with local volunteers recently surveyed and excavated the remains of post-medieval cottages & their landscape. This research helps us to understand more about the lives of the rural poor & landless, less visible in history.
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
We’ll hopefully see you again at some point Prof. Britton! 😅
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
This week the Northern Picts team are in Shetland investigating the context of the fabulous Pictish stone from Mail, Shetland. This carving was found during grave digging in the 1960s and shows a figure carrying a Rhynie Man style axe. We’ll be test pitting at islet broch site and the adjacent coast
BrochGeophysMail figure Geophys
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Great coverage of the Edinburgh’s First Burghers exhibition in the Scotsman - it has been brilliant to see this HES-funded work go from the lab to exhibition! @orshicz.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
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The faces of Edinburgh's first residents brought to life 900 years on
The faces tell a story of the early days of Edinburgh.
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Great to be at the Europa conference today, a celebration of landscape connectivity in prehistory and the career and work of the wonderful Martin Bell. First up, a fascinating and rapid-fire tour of 900,000 years of island (and not island) Britain with Matt Pope
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr Ellie Graham. For her thesis, Ellie tracked erosion and damage to vulnerable coastal sites using drone technology - well done Dr Graham! #climatechange #archaeology #scotland supported by @ukri.org @quadratdtp.bsky.social
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Not Pictish but the 3D print of one of our University of Aberdeen archaeology third year student’s 3D models came out super well. A carved stone ball from Aberdeenshire
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University of Aberdeen Library @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The view from my window. Caught between overdue books and overachieving rainbows. 🌈📚 #rainbows
A double rainbow over the plaza on Old Aberdeen Campus, University of Aberdeen. As viewed from the Sir Duncan Rice Library, facing east towards the beach and the North Sea.
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Linus Girdland Flink @flinklinus.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Last day in Aberdeen! Wishing you all the best in your new postdoctoral job Lucy @lucyjkoster.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social
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Trimontium Trust & Museum @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Join us for a day of free fun-filled activities on June 14th in Abbey House Gardens, just next door to the Borders Book Festival! All activities are free and there is no need to book. Visit the link below for full details: zurl.co/SkBVi
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Jeff Oliver and collaborators from the University of Sheffield, Eryri National Park and the local community were up a mountainside in Gwynedd, Wales, surveying the abandoned farmsteads of settlers, encroachers and other landless folk who once called these parts home.
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Ness of Brodgar @nessofbrodgar.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We are running two free events in June to give beginners a basic understanding of the geophysical survey process and what it can tell us. #archaeology #geophysics #orkney #NessofBrodgar #Neolithic
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Have a go at geophysical survey with two free workshops in June
We are running two free events next month to give beginners a basic understanding of the geophysical survey process and what it can tell us.
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Surveying at the spectacular Cullykhan fort, Pennan, Aberdeenshire. Using our Sensys gradiometer cart for student projects. Cullykhan was dug by Colvin Greig and team in the 1960s and 70s, the fort has been shown to have Late Bronze Age, Iron Age, Pictish, Medieval and 18th century phases of use.
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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Call for Contributions! The Student & Early Careers Conference 2025 is back 🎓🏺 🗓️ 30 July | 🕒 3 - 8 pm | 📍 Online Share your work in a friendly space: talks, posters, or videos welcome! Submit by 2 June, 9 am 👉 conference@archaeologyuk.org Find out more 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/youth-engage...
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Today our 3d year students are presenting their dissertation research topics - with much excitement, anything from witches to hillforts to sheep :)
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This week our super Cultural Heritage MSc students led us on a cheekily-titled ‘Shitty Heritage Walk’. Together we explored 19th C public health & urban reform, & were also reminded that the treatment of waste & waste workers reveals a great deal about who we are, then & now💩🚮
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today our students in the MSc Cultural Heritage took their spring project ‘Filth and Fury in 19th c Aberdeen’ on the road. Michael Cairns from Celsius Plumbing gave a tour of Edinburgh’s smelly history - from murky reservoirs, wooden drainage pipes, public wells and Victorian innovations.
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A recording of the recent talk for Founder's Week for the University of Aberdeen at Aberdeen Art Gallery. A talk on Rhynie, Tap o' Noth and recent results of our Northern Picts research. Please watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pA-W...
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Founders’ Week Café Scientifique - A Pictish Power Centre at Rhynie and Tap o' Noth: Recent Progress
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
For #Hillfortwednesday we are off to geophys Crathie Point promontory fort- a site that has seen some dramatic erosion recently 🥲
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An absolute belter of a day surveying a promontory fort near Findlater Castle for #hillfortswednesday. Images by Ellie Graham
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Come join us for this funded PhD opportunity! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
www.socantscot.org/uncategorize... Our Interdisciplinary Fellow Michael Stratigos has been working with NOSAS and the Nautical Archaeology Society to investigate a medieval crannog in the Highlands. Excavation planned for September check back then for some early results.
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Society Funds Underwater Excavation of Medieval Crannog and More With Latest Grants - Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Funded by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, the excavation by volunteers from the North of Scotland Archaeological Society (NOSAS) and the Nautical Archaeology Society will take place at Loch Ac...
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come join us! PALaEoScot is now offering a fully-funded PhD to work on ZooMS and sedaDNA studies at Scottish Late Glacial and Early Holocene sites. Closing 13/4/25. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🦌 🐴 🦣 🦬 🦊 🐺 (please note, full funding only available for U.K. domiciled candidates only).
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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Who says Buchan flint is not knappable?! Lovely work from our in-house stone-whisperer Dr Will Mills #flintfriday #experimentalarchaeology #mesolithic #palaeolithic #iceage
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