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Christopher Martin, Anthro-Arch Phd Student, awarded place at museums studies summer institute
Christopher Martin, a second year PhD student in Anthropology and Archaeology, has won a place on the Otsego Institute Summer Seminar in May 2017 entitled "Beyond Hyridity: Modelling Intercultural Histories and Material Worlds in Native North America".
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Archaeology to Pokemon Go: Upcoming festival explores the social sciences
Archaeology in the Garioch, 'Pokemon GO' and life after a heart transplant are some of the topics that will be explored during the Festival of Social Science at the University of Aberdeen next week (Saturday 5 - Saturday 12).
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Aberdeen hosts Community Archaeology Event
The Department of Archaeology recently hosted an international seminar on Community Archaeology in the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen. ‘Community Archaeologies in Practice: Global Perspectives’ saw university researchers and community members from Japan, Alaska and Scotland came together to share their experiences of doing community-based archaeology across four...
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University in top 40 international universities in Times Higher Education rankings
The University of Aberdeen has been included in the top 40 of an influential list that ranks the world's best 200 universities in terms of international outlook.
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Prof Kevin Edwards featured in Archaeology Scotland
Archaeology Scotland, a charity involved with promoting archaeology and the historic environment in Scotland, recently featured Kevin Edwards in the ‘60-second Interview’ feature of its magazine. Read it here.
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Aberdeen Isotope Archaeologists Shed Light on Edinburgh Dark Ages Mystery
Research on the human remains found at Cramond by Aberdeen isotope specialist Dr. Kate Britton, and her student Orsolya Czére, has hit the news this week as a new free exhibition 'Dark Goings On In Cramond' opens at the Museum of Edinburgh. The remains originate from a mass burial in the remains...
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Archaeologists aim to unravel the mystery of the Rhynie Man
When a farmer ploughing an Aberdeenshire field in 1978 uncovered a six-foot high Pictish stone carved with a distinctive figure carrying an axe, it quickly earned the name the 'Rhynie Man', coined from the village in which it was found.
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Amazing Archaeology in Alaska!
As another field season gets well underway, the finds from Nunalleq just get better and better!
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Archaeology's Dr. Gordon Noble and Team Find Oldest Pictish Fort in Scotland!
A Pictish fort uncovered during an archaeological dig on the Aberdeenshire coast is believed to be Scotland's oldest.
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Evidence stacks up that rocky outcrop was home to earliest Pictish fort
An inhospitable sea stack on the Aberdeenshire coast has been confirmed as the site of the earliest Pictish Fort and predates the iconic Dunnottar Castle, carbon dating has revealed.