Category: Post-excavation
UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Sue Dyke updates us on her research project to reconstruct the prehistoric landscape around the Ness of Brodgar.
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UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer and freelance archaeozoologist Dr Julia Cussans has begun the not so small task of assessing the animal bone assemblage from the Ness of Brodgar excavation.
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MRes student Jackson Clark outlines his research on the burnt animal bone assemblage from Structure Eight.
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An update on project funding from Ness project officer Anne Mitchell.
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A joint research project has explored the origin of red deer in Neolithic Orkney. But more questions than answers remain.
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Sarah Jane Haston is coming to the end of the second year of her MRes programme looking at the charred plant remains from Structure Eight.
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An update on Sue Dyke's palaeoecological investigations around the Ness of Brodgar.
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UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Gary Lloyd outlines his research project looking at multi-hollowed cobbles from the Ness of Brodgar.
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A flake of Arran pitchstone from the analysis of environmental samples from Structure Eight has brought the total from the Ness to 47.
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A new paper on the faunal remains from the Ness of Brodgar is available now.
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The burnt animal bone assemblage from the Ness of Brodgar is the subject of a new funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentship available from the UHI Archaeology Institute.
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The second account of Ness volunteer Lorraine Clay's foray into experimental archaeology over the summer of 2022.
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The first part of Ness volunteer Lorraine Clay's foray into experimental archaeology over the summer of 2022.
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House Three at the Braes of Ha’Breck showing the areas of burnt grain. (📷 Antonia Thomas/Dan Lee)
Our UHI Archaeology Institute colleagues Dr Antonia Thomas and Dan Lee are the…
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Micromorphologist Dr Jo McKenzie will deliver a paper on the Ness of Brodgar at the European Association of Archaeologists annual meeting in Budapest tomorrow, Thursday, September 1.
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An update on Sarah-Jane Haston's research into the charred plant remains from Structure Eight.
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“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
Albert Einstein
Professor Oliver Craig and Julia Becher at Skara Brae in August 2021.
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A 5000-year-old male palm print was discovered on a pottery sherd at the Ness of Brodgar. The artefact was analysed using Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) and it was concluded that the print most likely belonged to a man around 22 years old.
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Red deer skull excavated at the Bay of Skaill, Orkney, in 2021. The skull and antler (the second antler had been recovered by a member of the public previously) lay…
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Red deer deposition at the Ness of Brodgar and beyond...
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One of the ways we can best progress work on the Ness of Brodgar is via student research, particularly at postgraduate level.
If we can at least cover…
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An image of the latest Ness of Brodgar fingerprints captured using Reflectance Transformation Imaging. (Jan Blatchford)
The latest prehistoric fingerprints on a pottery fragment from the Ness of Brodgar belonged…
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