🎃 ☠️ Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students have been #felting up a storm making vertebrae recently! A fun #mindful way of learning skeletal #anatomy led by Dr Linda Fibiger 🧶 #halloween #osteology #osteo #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh #bones #EdinburghUni #craft @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

‼️reminder‼️this seminar is on today in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre (Doorway 1) in the Old Medical School. We hope to see you all there! 🏺 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Our seminar this Thurs 30th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is "Of rocks and hard places: from geopractices to extractivism in late prehistoric Europe" by Dr Beatrijs de Groot @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #Neolithic #pottery #Anthropocene #geology #lithics #prehistory #archaeology #EdinArch #Edinburgh 🏺🪨⛰️

📣 TODAY's Seminar Thursday 23 October 2025 at 16:15pm SSLT (Doorway 1) 🇬🇷 "Hyettos: The Origins, Florescence and Afterlife of a Small City in Central Greece" by John Bintliff @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social #greece #archaeology #edinarch #classics #ottoman #byzantine #neolithic @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Really enjoyed celebrating 100 years of the @leverhulme.ac.uk yesterday evening and listening to an inspiring lecture by Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore on 100 years of research on adolescence. Very relevant to new collaborative work we are developing at Edinburgh.

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Just back from beautiful Zagreb! Had the pleasure to give a keynote on 'Bias, injustice and repairs in the digital heritage landscape' at the Digital Art History: Methods Practice and Epistemology conference, organised by Sanja Horvatincic and Sanja Sekelj from the University of Zagreb

‼️Reminder‼️our fieldwork round up is on TODAY 16th October at 16:15 in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre doorway 1 in the old medical school. See you all there!

Had such a great time taking the students to the Cathedral and talking them through biomolecular techniques 🧬🧪💀

Our MSc Human Osteoarchaeology students started semester with a trip to @stgilescathedral.bsky.social for the #Edinburgh900 First Burghers exhibition feat. our @samleggs22.bsky.social & lots of great #osteology #aDNA #isotopes work to discuss! #EdinArch #archaeology #medieval #OneHealth #Edinburgh

Today we've had @deathrevol.bsky.social with us at @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social as a gest lecturer, talking to students of #Archaeology and #Osteoarchaeology about the origins of human funerary behaviour. Such a pleasure, thank you so much for coming! @cenieh.bsky.social @fatapuerca.bsky.social 💀🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

📣 Our FREE seminar Thursday 16th Oct 16:15 in the SSLT is all about #Fieldwork feat. 3x staff projects: @guillaume-robin.bsky.social (Copper Age #Sardinia) @nubt4.bsky.social#Sardinia) @nubt4.bsky.social (Nubt #Egypt) & Prof. C. Pickard (Prehistoric Mull, Ulva & Gometra #Scotland) #EdinArch #Edinburgh #Archaeology #AncientEgypt

The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator... cc @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

⛪ 👨‍👨 Next week we’ll be proud to welcome John Arnold from @camhistory.bsky.social , who’ll discuss his recent research into the changing expressions of lay piety found in medieval southern France.

Come celebrate achievements of Women in STEM with us this Ada Lovelace Day. Learn about women in Archaeology, Engineering, Geoscience, Comp Sci & more! edin.ac/ada2025 @morayhouse.bsky.social @edinburghchem.bsky.social @edinunimaths.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @stis-uoe.bsky.social

📣Seminar TODAY 16:15 in Sydney Smith LT ⚽ "Nostalgia and Sportswashing: The Role of the Past in the Saudi Takeover of Newcastle United" by David Farrell-Banks @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social  📷 D. Farrell-Banks; Newcastle Fans TV CC BY-SA 4.0 #EdinArch #heritage #Newcastle #NewcastleFC #football #sport

Reminder ‼️ This is in TODAY (2nd October) at 4:15pm. To find the room see 📍 🗺️ 🔗 www.accessable.co.uk/the-universi... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

This week's seminar Thurs 2nd Oct 4:15pm in Sydney Smith LT " #Atapuerca archaeological sites (Burgos, #Spain), from #Palaeolithic to 2025" from our own @michaelbones95.bsky.social All Welcome! #EdinArch #prehistory #bioanth #archaeology #Edinburgh #UNESCO #OneHealthArchaeo @iphes-cerca.bsky.social

This week, it was exciting to host @acerbialberto.com at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social to launch our @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded *Weaponised Pasts* research project, through three days of teamwork, followed by a kick-off event at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Recently @nubt4.bsky.social was in Nice 🇫🇷 to tackle big issues about #Neolithic @ Critical Margins Conference https://tinyurl.com/y4rpebzu 📖 more of Jo's #OpenAccess work on this from the earlier 'Revolutions' workshop 🔗 https://www.topoi.org/publication/49603/ #EdinArch #Archaeology #Egypt

Are you an archaeologist working on quarries or rock-cut structures? Please submit a paper proposal at this upcoming conference (Edinburgh, UK, 14-15 May 2026) hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

🥳 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student Jess Nutt won Best Speaker for her paper 'Sagas and Swords: Early #Medieval #Wales and Evidence of #Viking Conflict' @ Society for Medieval Archaeology Student Colloquium @exeter.ac.uk last week! 🏆 📷 C. Mason #EdinArch #archaeology @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social

So awesome to see this out! Congrats to my amazing colleagues! Vera is an absolute super star 🌟 great to see all the filming of her work in the labs in such a great output 🥼 🧪 🦷

📣 NEW #OpenAccess #OpenScience 📄 🦷 article from PhD student Vera Haponava, Dr Linda Fibiger, Prof Catriona Pickard (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social) & Ian (UoE Geosciences) detailing best practice in destructive analysis incl how to 🎦 @edopenresearch.bsky.social #archsci #isotopes #EdinArch #osteology

📣 New publication 📣 Dr Andrew Lamb "The later Iron Age inhumation burials of south-west Britain and Armorica and their potential relationship" https://tinyurl.com/3yfesrjv 📷 Kernow Skies CC-BY-SA #Cornwall #Kernow #EdinArch #Brittany #Archaeology #Prehistory #IronAge  @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

⚔️ ⚖️ What impact did the Vikings have in Wales? And what were the enduring effects of successive legal codes in Sicily? ⬇️ These are just some of the topics our staff and students are discussing at #IMC2025 today — click below for a full list! bit.ly/UoE-IMC-Tues

New paper just out in Journal of Urban Archaeology, with my excellent colleagues from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social and @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social Were oppida sustainable?... eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Nominations so far include Dr Calum Mciver (Senior Lecturer in Classics), Professor Jon Henderson (Head of Archaeology), Megan J (fan of HCA).

Including our PhD candidate Jess Nutt! Lots of fantastic medieval happenings in Leeds next week!

📣 New FREE access article out from our Dr Sam Leggett & Dr Emma Smith, with @robin-f.bsky.social @bostoncollege.bsky.social using biomolecular archaeology on a cemetery in Alton Hampshire to help reframe the transition to the Early Middle Ages @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch

So today really was good morning Nubt and Quft for the lady time for this season! Everything wrapped up and lots of adieu just for now. We even had a last minute find! Thank you everyone in Quft and Nubt and you! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

We are off to a great start with our @uoe-cahss.bsky.social #heritage mini-symposium! If you are in Edinburgh, come and join us for a really interesting line up of talks! Info: blogs.ed.ac.uk/heritagesymp...

Good morning Nubt! The last full day of work! Multi tasking!! We are smart and clean...like Mohamed, Basha and Am Ahmed, but let's see later!! It's been a fantastic season and lots of analysis to come in 2026! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Our @samleggs22.bsky.social is part of a new #exhibition @stgilescathedral.bsky.social@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social  about the 1st Burghers as part of #edinburgh 's 900th birthday! 🎂 Check it out at #StGiles until 30th Nov ⛪ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch #archaeology #scotland #archsci

Excavations have resumed this week at the Chalcolithic settlement site of Punta Ferulosu (Sardinia) with archaeology students from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

...what lies beneath? Recently our MSc Human #Osteoarchaeology students acquired excavation & recording skills during a mock excavation exercise with plastic replica skeletons ☠️ with the Scottish weather at its best! ☀️ #EdinArch #osteo #archaeology #Scotland #EdinburghUni @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

🥳 Luisa Leiss MSc Human Osteoarchaeology (2023-24) was recently awarded🥇 “Early Career Award” at the annual conference of the German Anthropological Society, where she recently presented her MSc research! Congrats Luisa! #EdinArch #osteology #archaeology #EdinburghUni @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Back at Quft and it's test trial day for the photo studio construction made by Abd el-Halim! Joris can Wetering and Ahmed Fahim in action with Montessr! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Good morning Nubt! A diverse set of goals today ...painting photo studios ...washing the final potsherds, and back to the magazine at Quft for one of the last pottery days!! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

On the nteresting find yesterday morning in cemetery G at Nubt with Joris and Ahmed Fahim from Quft. Thinking about the construction methods, diversity within the region and what was not recorded in the 1890s @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Up at Nubt today after Eid! The crack sieving team finished the final kom so thanks to Mohamed, Mahmoud and Basha. We are on to sorting abd numbering Finds from cemetery NG today! The cemetery T pottery is done!! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Excited to be joining the @theegyptcentre.bsky.social Early Egypt day!!and speaking later about research into objects said to be from Naqada! We are online from Naqada in safe online hands @drkengriffin.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

Meanwhile photography of pottery from Khattara 3 us underway with Joris van Wetering. We were able to undertake a rescue mission here in 2022 with support from the Bionanthropolgy Foundation @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Here is the sherd being analysed by Agnieszka Mączyńska @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Impressed shards from various locations in the Naqada region are under study today! Agnieszka is analysing an uncommon one. More research to come on cross comparison with Egyptian and Nubian sites ... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Today we are back in the magazine at Quft and more pups are helping! Joris is pottery washing today, aided by Little Dog! Jo and Agnieszka are drawing Predynastic mostly, pottery from the 2022 season at Manshiya! @naqadasurvey.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

Today at Nubt with furry friends to greet us now! On the pot front, today saw rejoining of Predynastic pottery by Rais Omer and analysis and drawing with Agnieszka! The T5 assemblage should be complete tomorrow! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Back at Nubt ...Good morning! Welcoming Agnieszka for the first time and introducing her to the team!! More pot excitement already... knowledge about the former excavations and original dating increases by the minute! @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @theees.bsky.social

Good morning Horus!! On our way to Quft for an exciting day with lots of Predynastic pottery from our 2018 onwards work in the Naqada region! More later! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @naqadasurvey.bsky.social

Day #1 of our high-performance computing training course, led by Mike Wallis @uoe-cahss.bsky.social and organised in collaboration with @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social in our lab!