The National Trust for Scotland has a new Curator position open! Deadline: 26 October 2025 and more info👇 www.asva.co.uk/jobs/curator...
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⛪ 👨‍👨 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!
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📣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

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📣 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.socialrofile/did:plc:qca6kbpwqx4idzv576w2ezqq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@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!

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New paper just out in Journal of Urban Archaeology, with my excellent colleagues from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social and @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social

Were oppida sustainable?...
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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.socialrofile/did:plc:qca6kbpwqx4idzv576w2ezqq" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social