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https://hca.ed.ac.uk/archaeology 18-08-2021 22:50:54
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#TAG45 Session 5 part 2 off to great start with Queen Matilda telling stories of life in the 11th century! Looking forward to hearing the rest of today’s excellent line-up of speakers Lusia Zaleskaya #archaeology #storytelling



🎉 Congratulations to Dr Arturo Rey da Silva who was recently elected as the new Co-Chair of Ocean Decade Heritage Network! ODHN works to harness the potential of heritage within the efforts of UN Ocean Decade #OceanDecade #MaritimeMonday #EdinArch oceandecadeheritage.org/board-of-direc… HCAatEdinburgh

🎉 Congratulations Sam Scott-Moncrieff!!! Brilliants news! HCAatEdinburgh #EdinArch #PhDlife

In time for the holidays the Arts and Humanities Research Council Rising from the Depths Emergent Findings report is out doi.org/10.2218/ED.978… Discover how the marine past can inspire a brighter future HCAatEdinburgh Ocean Decade Heritage Network @SeaVoiceonline UN Ocean Decade UNESCO Eastern Africa UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 HCAatEdinburgh UNESCO Ocean


🏺Our last #FindsFriday for the year before the Winter Break is this #festive #faience #EyeofHorus 1 of the many amazing objects that form part of our teaching collections 🔗 tinyurl.com/yjrzhxpp You can learn more about #Egypt in Joanne Rowland جوأن رولند 's classes! #Edinarch #Archaeology 🇪🇬




Great to see Edinburgh Archaeology PhD student, Emily, quoted in the The Guardian today on the importance of community involvement in #Scottish #Archaeology



We are starting 2025 with our annual unit round-up! On Tuesday 14th we have three speakers taking us through recent fieldwork undertaken across Scotland The seminar starts at 18:00 in the Meadows Lecture Theatre Edinburgh Archaeology Teviot Place, University of Edinburgh. See you there


📣💥Grant news! Delighted to share that the research project *Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social media*, was funded by The Leverhulme Trust! The project is co-led by myself as PI (HCAatEdinburgh Edinburgh Futures Institute), by CI Alberto Acerbi & CI Zach Horne

Welcome back to uni! We're looking forward to seeing you in class & @ our exciting events. The FMSG seminars start this Tuesday & our flagship seminar w Edinburgh ArchSoc starts this Thursday 🔗 tinyurl.com/mry82d9e #EdinArch #archaeology #edinburgh #scotland #prehistory #heritage


Also, it's #Hillfortswednesday! Great to compare the brochs of Scotland by Dr. Kirsty Lilley with University of Oxford's Atlas of Hillforts. Shocking lack of brochs in the Aberdeenshire area *STARES IN TEUCHTER*


New paper co-authored with Alberto Acerbi and Marta Krzyzanska in Scientific Reports! What makes archaeological content spread on social media? Positive sentiment and expertise can win! HCAatEdinburgh Edinburgh Archaeology Edinburgh Futures Institute 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Fantastic news!!! Congratulations Chiara Bonacchi & colleagues!


Today we had an amazing online talk by Raquel Hernando, from CENIEH and Tied2Teeth, talking about diet during #LatePrehistory through dental #microwear 🦷 and other proxies 🔬, within the course of "Social Bioarchaeology" 💀 at HCAatEdinburgh Edinburgh Archaeology 🏴. Thank you so much! 😉
