Event Archive

A book launch of a sort

Please join us on Thursday, 23rd of February for a research seminar presented by Prof Kevin Edwards of the University of Aberdeen on “Pollen, pacifists, women, war and other things: what do the archives tell us about the development of palynology?” All are welcome to attend.

There will be water

There will be isotopes

Research into structured deposits that have been found under or within early Medieval Norse houses across the North Atlantic region. The deposits in question are connected to ritual actions through which Norse people manipulated the agency of their homes. The mnemonics and agency of the house further negotiated the sense...

The foraging societies of the Japanese Jomon period (ca. 16,500~2500BP) were mostly egalitarian; archaeological data provide tantalising insights into various levels and types of social identities. For example, intergroup identities may have been expressed in regional ceramic styles; portable ornaments (made of stone, animal bone, antler, teeth, and shell) and...

Using bioarchaeological and isotopic data from St Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen Dr Britton will trace changing relationships between mothers and infants and its impact of on the history and society of Britain, Scotland and the City of Aberdeen. 

 In this talk I will discuss the results of my doctoral project, which contributed new archaeological evidence to the debate on transhumance in the Viking and Medieval Periods in Iceland and the Outer Hebrides. I will examine shielings in these two regions at new levels of detail, and with new...

The most impressive Scottish Viking Age hoard of recent years...

Ana Belen Marin-Arroyo (Universidad de Cantabria/McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research)  will present a brown bag talk at noon on her work the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition.  Bring your lunch.