Come and join our team in Aberdeen! We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher, and specialist in Late Pleistocene zooarchaeology or Palaeontology, to join our Late Glacial adventures - deadline 2nd October! 🦴 🦷 🦣 🦌 🐻

Wonderful few days out and about with Dr Will Mills exploring some wonderful Terminal Late Pleistocene/early Holocene landscapes in beautiful Fife and Midlothian. Great seafood too!

Today we’re extracting collagen from tiny bone samples from Tarradale, ahead of isotope analysis and ZooMS. These analyses will help us identify the species fragmentary remains, and tell us about the Scottish Mesolithic food web TarradaleThroughTime @arkeostrida Sonic Horizons

Intriguing! Could LUP/Meso projectiles have been poison-tipped?! A quick scan through Rosie Bishop’s work tells me that (potentially) poisonous genus Lathyrus has been found in the Scottish Mesolithic palaeobotanical record at at least three sites… ☠️ 😱

Mesolithic burials and mortuary practices: Traditions, developments and individuality of the early postglacial hunter-fisher-gatherers in Europe sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A bit of experimentation going on at PALaEoScot HQ at the moment, trying our hand at some portable XRF and ICP-MS to differentiate lithic sources. Don’t worry, no ancient lithics were harmed in the making of this science!

Lovely to see these beautiful bouncy bits of demineralised bone emerging in the Tarradale samples 😍 Sonic Horizons @arkeostrida TarradaleThroughTime

Waiting for collagen to come out of the freeze dryer is like waiting to open your presents on Christmas morning! What secrets of Mesolithic beasties will these little shards of bone hold?! Stay tuned! TarradaleThroughTime @arkeostrida Sonic Horizons

Today's Scottish Archaeology Month researcher spotlight is Sonic Horizons from UHI Archaeology Institute, researching Tarradale Shell Midden! #ScotArchResearch

The PALaEoScot website is finally live! It’s still very much a work in progress but great to have somewhere to land 🦣 🦌 🦬 🐴 abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/de…

Of course. A sensible past me would actually have included a link to the paper in this self-congratulatory post... 🤦‍♂️ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hg…

We’re thrilled to be providing an update on excavations at Greg Wogan-Browne Cavern as part of the upcoming Pembrokeshire Archaeology Day (9th Nov). Come and hear about the latest #Palaeolithic and #Mesolithic research Greg Wogan-Browne Cavern as well as other archaeological projects in Pembrokeshire

‘Fishier than the average bear’ - isotope data may point to polar bears in the Inchnadamph bone caves prior to the last glaciation maximum 🐻‍❄️

Read the fishy-bear paper for free in the link below, also published at bioone.org/journals/annal…

We had the privilege of welcoming @AHRCPress to Sci-Tech Daresbury for the launch of the RICHeS programme. Learn more about this programme, and how bringing RICHeS onto campus will put heritage science at the heart of research and innovation ▶️▶️ youtu.be/o2yBJKvPP8Y?si…

We are delighted to welcome Alicia Sanz Royo to our PALaEoScot Team! Working between Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Alicia will study the Late Pleistocene fauna of Scotland, and help us piece together the palaeoecological context of Scotland’s Late Glacial lives🦌 🦬 🦣 🐴 🐺

We miss you Alicia! But cannot wait to see what you unearth 🦌 😃

Who says Buchan flint is not knappable?! Lovely work from our in-house stone-whisperer Dr Will Mills #flintfriday #experimentalarchaeology #mesolithic #palaeolithic #iceage

Join the PALaEoScot project! We are seeking a PhD student to conduct novel ZooMS and sedaDNA studies in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Scotland! Fully funded research, 36 months, stipend and fees (NB. U.K. domiciled fees only). Closing 13/4/25 findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Alicia is spending lots of time getting to know the animals of the Assynt bone caves - one of the most important Late Pleistocene sites in Scotland. Their will help us understand not only what species are represented but also help us understand how the deposits were formed 🦌 🐻