Fun at the Highland Archaeology Festival this weekend in sunny, leafy Inverness. @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social staff, students and alumni all well represented! Lovely to see some of the Tarradale Through Time team and feedback on our latest post ex results. Managed to dodge the marathon runners.

140 hours of paid work for anyone on an Arts and Humanities doctoral programme at a Scottish HEI, co-ordinating the incredible @sgsah.bsky.social Earth Scholarship programmes 2026 Symposium. Closes 16/10/25. Go go go! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea...

The #archaeology of Uist is the subject of a new book by the UHI Archaeology Institute’s Dr Rebecca Rennel and Dr Emily Gal.

To celebrate #HeritageOpenDays and Archaeology Scotland's #ScottishArchaeologyMonth, we’ve made two of our This is Archaeology lectures open access for one week only! Uist Unearthed: 👉 youtu.be/DYuHN3wUsSc Dead Isle: 👉 youtu.be/dVbnxMaUNWU

Mesolithic DEATH SQUAD! Great sessions and papers on mesolithic mortuary practices at Ferrara 2025. Lots of beers and pasta and silliness afterwards.

Test audience for these wonderful colouring sheets our new PhD student Tayla has prepared for our event on Sunday 14th at UoA. Tayla is joining PALaEoScot to work on fragmentary bones from late glacial-early Holocene sites in Scotland using molecular approaches - she’s quite the artist too!

Big turnout at WSC on Sunday for our Orkney International Science Festival event. Cultural Geologies of Neolithic Orkney with Mark, followed by ruined Guatemala beach resorts with Diego Contreras' LAMENTO, topped off by fast and slow stone architectures with Viktor Kossakovsky's Architecton.

Great opportunity for anyone with project management experience who fancies a slice of island life... We would love to develop cool new projects that bring some Islands Deal benefits to Orkney! www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Applications for SHAPE Involve and Engage 2026-27 will open on 1 September. This innovative public engagement programme requires UK researchers to work in partnership with a gallery, archive, library or museum (GLAM organisation). Find out more: buff.ly/efUOSoL

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

How excited should archaeologists be allowed to get about interim reports?

Picked the right day to head to Spurness. UHI Archaeology students playing a key role in demonstrating that what was once thought to be a Bronze Age double house is in fact Early Neolithic. Orcadian Chalcolithic settlement slips through our fingers once again... archaeologyorkney.com/2025/08/13/s...

Fresh off the press - latest from the LAST project: "Under Pressure? Living with Climate Change and Environmental Hazards in the Past and Now" (Open access) link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Thanks to all contributors, and to my great co-editors: Marcel Bradtmöller, Sonja B. Grimm and Noa Lavi!!

I was there on Saturday and this was so exciting. Of course it turned up on the Open Day! An amazing find from Skaill Farm, and one very proud UHI student. Great work Katie!

The shipwreck uncovered in Sanday, #Orkney last year has been identified as HMS Hind, later the Earl of Chatham which was wrecked in the Bay of Lopness in 1788. More than 230 years buried in the seabed, before being released by a storm in 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A first for Scotland! I love these degrees, and the graduates they have produced elsewhere in the UK. Very excited to be able to support this option for our students at UHI moving forward. If you're interested in hosting a placement student, get in touch!

Our PhD students Kath Page and Adam Markham led a session for the 2025 SGSAH summer school in Glasgow last week. #archaeology #postgraduate #research #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

That's @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social s very own Kath Page!

Come and work with us! We are looking for an Operations Manager for our sparkly new AEONS environmental arch facilities and labs. Operations Manager – Facilities (Institute of Archaeology) - ORK09488 | Orkney Islands Council | myjobscotland myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/ork...

Solstice Sundown 2025 on Costa Hill.

Reminder of the call for applications for a new PaM Community co-chair - due by July 1st. Thanks!

A fun afternoon down at The Cairns in South Ronaldsay, catching up with @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social students and colleagues. The Orcadian Iron Age was looking resplendent in the sunshine!

From the vault! SC 2015. All ageing badly.

I know this guy! Great work Gary, flying the flag for material culture studies and @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social amongst all the fab landscape research at NEBARRS this year.

REFUGIUM reunion! And a stunning Orkney sunset to mark the occasion.

Enjoyed a fun Friday night on Hoy for Strings Across the Water, part of the Orkney Folk Festival. Great to see a strong turn out from @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social in support of two of our own, playing in Stravaig - who were brilliant! They joined Haas to play us back across to Stromness on the ferry.

The @ucddublin.bsky.social story about the exciting project *Prehistoric Policies* that Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social, Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social and I are just starting. Interested in how ideas about the past influence policy today? Watch this space! www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Good news day! I'm very pleased to be able to announce this after a little wait. I can't wait to get stuck into it with Alice Rudge of @soasanthro.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social, and an exciting new face who will fill our PDRA position in due course! Full intro thread to follow...

Did you know that most of our #archaeology degrees can be undertaken from anywhere in the world – as long as you have internet access and a computer? #studyarchaeology #ThinkUHI #postgraduate #undergraduate

Postdoc opportunity at the University of Cologne, Germany, to support the ECOLITHIC project: A Radical Ecosystems View of Lithic Macro-Evolution! ecolithic.uni-koeln.de/opportunities

Spot the hare

Swannay Brewery Sunday! Eviedale Bakehouse absolutely smashing the sourdough pizzas in the sunshine. Pint of Island Hopping for scale.

A bit late to the party but I finally got my hands on my very own copy of the Oxford Handbook of Mesolithic Europe today! I am so proud to be a part of this, the list of contributors is staggering! Congratulations (again) to @livnstutz.bsky.social, Rita and Mari on such an important piece of work.

Full write up on our 2025 UHI Archaeology Institute Fieldtrip, which took us to stunning, silvery Loch Tay. Great to see so many of our PGT and UG students together in person.

2025 UHI Archaeology Institute Easter Fieldtrip to The Scottish Crannog Centre and Ben Lawers Village! A huge success, thanks to all who joined and hosted us.

Launching today - our biggest ever project! Sonic Heritage explores the sounds of the world’s most famous sights, with 270 UNESCO World Heritage sites and items of intangible heritage, all reimagined by artists to create a new way to experience these incredible spaces 🏛️🎧 citiesandmemory.com/heritage

Budle Bay was worth getting up early for. No work for the week!

This is something to celebrate: the Centre for History is an innovative and creative department whose important work researching and teaching history with and in communities across the Highlands and Islands should be a model for institutions across the country.

Title slide for the paper that Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social, Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social and I am giving at the Prehistoric Society's (on line) Day School on the 'Future of Prehistory Sat 5th April. Tickets still available. prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

🚨REMINDER 🚨 The 'Future of Prehistory' dayschool will be on the afternoon of Saturday 5th April The day will run from 1-5.30pm, is online only and tickets are £10 for members and £20 for non members (plus Eventbrite fee). Booking and further details: www.prehistoricsociety.org/events/2025-...

It's gone windy now, but yesterday was a NICE equinox. Ziggy made hay.

Super cool project, with the potential to work on some super cool sites - including one excavated by @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social! It will be amazing to see what more secrets the Tarradale 2D material can yield...

It's like there's magic in the air around us. A few weeks ago we were in darkness and now it's Monday AND it's 5pm AND it's time for WEEK ELEVEN of 'How light is it in #Orkney at 5pm this week?' *clears throat* AND IT IS ABSOLUTELY THIS LIGHT! 💡❤️😀🌞

Next Saturday, we're showing Guan Hu's Black Dog at West Side Cinema. Firstly, how gorgeous is this poster for it? Secondly, Xin, the lead, won the Grand Jury prize at the 2024 Palme Dog awards. Should be a top night Stromness Town Hall, doors open 1915, £5 or £3 concessions, cash only. Woof!

We showed Notes From Sheep land at West Side Cinema tonight and it is absolutely stunning. Orla Barry and Carla Holmes are both some kind of genius. Great to see a different crowd in as well who might only turn out for sheep related films. youtu.be/GbTa5_8M-Vg?...

Orkney Archaeology Society's next public talk is an online event with Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, outlining further discoveries at Blomuir Passage Grave, Holm. The talk will be on 20th March, starting at 7pm. Get your free tickets here, orkneyarchaeologysociety.org.uk/event/talk-f...

Well this is very timely...and fits with some exciting news that I can't quite yet talk about on here!

Spent a fab few hours today discussing @lesleymcf.bsky.social 's brilliant paper on heritage ecologies of the Ardeer Peninsula with our Archaeological Studies MLitt and Contemporary Art and Archaeology MA students. Check it out if you haven't yet. It's dynamite! 💥 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Late Neolithic communities came together to elaborately troll archaeological silverback discourse thousands of years into the future. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...