Archaeology seminars 2021/22*INCLUDE*

Professor Ian Baxter (Heriot-Watt University)

Joint lecture - 'Archaeology in the heart of Edinburgh: The Holyrood Field School project'

'Shifting perspectives on 1st-millennia Scotland'

'Heritage-based tribalism in big data ecologies and the role of "experts"’

NB 4.30 pm – log in details to follow.

'Rock Art Scotland and South Africa (RASSA): Working with local communities to record and preserve rock art in South Africa'

'At the edge of the world(s): Aerial survey, landscape and identity across frontiers of northern Britain during the Iron Age and Roman periods'

'Finding the Fish Event Horizon: Bioarchaeology of (early) Medieval fish consumption'

'Cultural heritage and Scotland’s network of marine protected areas'

'Around the roundhouses: Circular lives, circular economies, circular ecologies'

Dr Penny Bickle (University of York)

 'Conceptualising Neolithic gender: the sexual division of labour amongst early farmers'

Professor Trevor Watkins (University of Edinburgh)

Professor Alexandra Sanmark (University of the Highlands and Islands)

‘Norse waterways in the West Mainland of Orkney’

‘Caithness Broch Project: New visions of the past’

‘Landscapes of interaction at the edge of the Roman Empire: New research on the Iron Age of southwest Scotland’

Dr Mark Jackson (Newcastle University)

‘Filling gaps or papering over the cracks? Byzantine Anatolia and beyond from the 7th century AD’

'The Battle of the Egadi Islands Project'

'Passage Tomb People: Investigating the Social Drivers of Passage Tomb Construction'

‘Preventing the world’s submerged past from looting, commercial exploitation and destruction. Cooperation, assistance and underwater archaeological practice within UNESCO's actions’