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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 16d

We are over the moon! Our archaeology department at the University of Aberdeen ranked no. 1 in the UK for Archaeology and Forensic Sciences in The Times Good University Guide 2026.

Many thanks to our wonderful students, our staff, and our wider archaeology community here in the bonnie north-east!

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 23d

Our field season at the historic Old Kinord settlement is a wrap! The #archaeology of standing buildings is like an iceberg! The simple, surface story gives way to complex biographies that hint at changes in use, and how dwellings were maintained, altered and abandoned🪏

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · 29d

Come and meet the PALaEoScot team this Sunday 14th 11am-4pm at our old aberdeen campus

Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · 29d

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!

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.explorathon.co.uk/events-progr...

Discovery Day – explorathon

www.explorathon.co.uk

Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ever wondered what life was like at the end of the Ice Age? What did people eat? How did they make tools? Come and meet the PALaEoScot team at Explorathon on Sept 14th 11am-4pm at UoA’s King’s College in Old Aberdeen and meet our living prehistorians at their camp! Link below ⬇️

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Sep 3

Drs Jeff Oliver and Michael Stratigos are running our historical archaeology field school out at Loch Kinord - revealing secrets of past Scottish farming practices and rural life just under the surface!

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 25

A Nature feature highlights recently published research by a member of our team on an ancient Egyptian genome, placing it in the context of ongoing and future genomics research in Egypt: www.nature.com/articles/d44...

Mummy DNA sheds light on Egypt’s diverse past

Genome analysis of a 4,500-year-old mummy reveals North African and Iraqi ancestry, as Egypt embarks on an ambitious project to decode the DNA of 200 mummies and 100,000 citizens.

www.nature.com

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 21

Day Three is excursion day at the SEAA 2025 conference here in Aberdeen and our delegates have been touring north-east Scotland’s beautiful and bountiful archaeology. From stone circles to Pictish forts!

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · Aug 19

There was a shout for find of the day at 9:21am this morning and it did indeed turn out to be the find of the day - found by our University of Aberdeen Certificate student Andy! What a beauty of a bone pin from the Pictish fort at Burghead! #historicenvironmentscotland @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 20

Day two of the SEAA 2025 conference in Aberdeen is off to a flying (and rather metallurgic) start! Now for refuelling in beautiful Elphinstone Hall 😋

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yesterday saw a wonderful first day at the SEAA conference which we have the privellge of hosting this year. Fantastic talks, wonderful food, restorative chats, and a warm welcome at the Town House by the Lord Provost!

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Open Research, University of Aberdeen @openresearchuoa.bsky.social · Jul 9

One of our @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social lecturer's recently had an article in Nature, and published a research briefing to go along with. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
These plain language summaries can help expand the impact of your research by making it understandable to a wider audience

A genome from ancient Egypt

Most of an ancient Egyptian’s ancestry is best explained using North African genomes — the rest, by genomes from Mesopotamia.

www.nature.com

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jul 15

Antiquity authors feature on the @archpodnet.bsky.social Heritage Voices podcast to discuss the Nunalleq Digital Museum🏺

It highlights the rich #archaeology of pre-colonial Yup'ik culture whilst maintaining sovereignty for Quinhagak, Alaska's descendant community.

buff.ly/LMoInPr

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jul 15

Charlotta Hillerdal, Alice Watterson, Lonny Alaskuk Strunk, Jaqueline Nalikutaar Cleveland all appear on the podcast!

Check out their #ProjectGallery (co-authored with John Anderson) in Antiquity 🆓 buff.ly/eFzqooU

And explore the museum: buff.ly/omwz2ZY

Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Nunalleq Digital Museum: multi-vocal narration of a Yup'ik past - Volume 99 Issue 405

doi.org

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jul 8

This week #PALaEoScot has been part of a team testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Late Glacial/early Holocene archaeology (or palaeontology!). So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 @ukri.org @willmills.bsky.social

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 25

Aberdeen's Jeff Oliver along with a team from Sheffield, Eryri National Park with local volunteers recently surveyed and excavated the remains of post-medieval cottages & their landscape. This research helps us to understand more about the lives of the rural poor & landless, less visible in history.

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 8

We’ll hopefully see you again at some point Prof. Britton! 😅

Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 8

This week I’ve scoured letters at NMS for glimpses of Pleistocene animals; celebrated Medieval life at an exhibition opening; & been immersed in prehistoric landscapes at the Europa in Reading. Archaeology is so rich and varied. Thank you to everyone who shared their knowledge & passion this week!🏺🦣

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · Jun 6

This week the Northern Picts team are in Shetland investigating the context of the fabulous Pictish stone from Mail, Shetland. This carving was found during grave digging in the 1960s and shows a figure carrying a Rhynie Man style axe. We’ll be test pitting at islet broch site and the adjacent coast

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great coverage of the Edinburgh’s First Burghers exhibition in the Scotsman - it has been brilliant to see this HES-funded work go from the lab to exhibition! @orshicz.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...

The faces of Edinburgh's first residents brought to life 900 years on

The faces tell a story of the early days of Edinburgh.

www.scotsman.com

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Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great to be at the Europa conference today, a celebration of landscape connectivity in prehistory and the career and work of the wonderful Martin Bell. First up, a fascinating and rapid-fire tour of 900,000 years of island (and not island) Britain with Matt Pope

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Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 5

Kate Britton @whatkatiedigs.bsky.social · Jun 5

Wonderful to be here at the opening of the Edinburgh’s first burgher’s exhibition. Part of the Edinburgh 900 celebrations, the exhibition runs until November at St Giles’ Cathedral and features DNA, facial reconstructions and our isotopic insights! @orshicz.bsky.social - this time with pictures!

Department of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social · Jun 3

Congratulations to our newest PhD, Dr Ellie Graham. For her thesis, Ellie tracked erosion and damage to vulnerable coastal sites using drone technology - well done Dr Graham! #climatechange #archaeology #scotland supported by @ukri.org @quadratdtp.bsky.social

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · May 28

Not Pictish but the 3D print of one of our University of Aberdeen archaeology third year student’s 3D models came out super well. A carved stone ball from Aberdeenshire

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University of Aberdeen Library @aberdeenunilib.bsky.social · May 28

The view from my window. Caught between overdue books and overachieving rainbows. 🌈📚 #rainbows

A double rainbow over the plaza on Old Aberdeen Campus, University of Aberdeen. As viewed from the Sir Duncan Rice Library, facing east towards the beach and the North Sea.

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Linus Girdland Flink @flinklinus.bsky.social · May 27

Last day in Aberdeen! Wishing you all the best in your new postdoctoral job Lucy @lucyjkoster.bsky.social @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social

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