Event Archive

School of Geosciences Postgraduate Applicant Information Session

Join us online for a Q&A and find out more about our postgraduate programmes starting in January 2024 and September 2024.

Scottish Archaeological Forum (SAF) Conference 2023

The Scottish Archaeological Forum (SAF) is delighted to deliver a hybrid conference at the University of Aberdeen in October 2023, with the theme of 'Insiders and Outsiders in Scottish Archaeology'.

Explorathon

Celebrate research with a range of fun activities,workshops and more!

Prehistory on the Edge

Studying and celebrating the Stone Age in North-West Europe in honour of Caroline Wickham-Jones

UK Archaeological Science (UKAS) Conference 2021 in 2022!

Call for papers is now open

NARSS: Gesa Mackenthun

This event was cancelled

An academic polymath Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock) will speak on a topic that will touch upon the past and the present, North America, heritage and the world. 

NARSS: Linus Girdland Flink.

This event was cancelled

Aberdeen's own Linus Girdland Flink, new lecturer in Ancient Biomolocules will speak. 

NARSS: Jennifer Jones, 'Surviving the Ice Age: Adaptability, Resilience and Environmental buffering in a LGM Spanish refugium'

Jennifer Jones (Santander) says "It's about reconstructing Last Glacial maximum environmental conditions in the Cantabrian Refugium, to explore how it helped people and animals to survive there, and why it was so heavily occupied. It's isotope heavy, so definitely a crowd pleaser."

NARSS: Chris Fowler, 'Interpreting change and diversity in the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices of northeast England'

This event was cancelled

Chris Fowler (Newcastle) will speak on osteoarchaeology and perhaps Neolithic tombs. 

NARSS: Kate Franklin, 'Living the Silk Road everyday: archaeological research in medieval Armenia'

How do we live global cultures in the everyday? This talk will look briefly at my research in Armenia and explore how the everyday and the global were co-constructed in the middle ages (12th to 15th centuries  AD). I will lay out the question of a ‘Silk Road archaeology’ as...