🦴 🔨🪨 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

⚡ 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!

Congratulations to all our brilliant students who graduated today! 🎉 🎓👏 #EdinArch #EdinburghUni #Edinburgh #graduation @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

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)

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

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

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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🌦️ 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

🌾 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

Our seminar this week is the Munro Lecture by Professor Agarwal info & 🎫 ⬇️ the lecture is free but booking is essential ☠️

Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

☠️ 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 🔗 http://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/munro-lecture-necropolitics-in-the-collection

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 🏺

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

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · 5mo ago

Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate outstanding women whose research spans the disciplines – from mathematical imaging to medieval diets, translations on reproductive health, designing better cities, planetary science, forensic science, and female friendships. media.leverhulme.ac.uk

Our study has finally uncovered the circumstances surrounding the death of 77 people, mostly women and girls.

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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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

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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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

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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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! https://tinyurl.com/mrvp3dcd 🛢️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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

‼️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... 🧵👇

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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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

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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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.

Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 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

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

Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 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

📣 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

‼️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

📣 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

I can't wait to present our work on Central Brittany in Edinburgh. Thank you @guillaume-robin.bsky.social for the invitation.

Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🇫🇷 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

🇫🇷 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

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

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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Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New! The first comparative, international, cross-disciplinary study of silver in late antique Europe. And includes full catalogues of major UK hacksilver hoards: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex). www.sidestone.com/books/silver...

☠️ 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 🔗 http://hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events/events/munro-lecture-necropolitics-in-the-collection

🦴 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

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

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!

Edinburgh Archaeology@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

☠️ 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 https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminars