Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 6
All change around 2500/2400 BC? End of the ‘Scottish Neolithic’ and the future of Neolithic studies The last of this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, in which Dr Alison...
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Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 5
‘Not just a load of old balls’: Late Neolithic developments and the creation of a new world order In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is...
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 3
An everyday story of country folk? In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research to show how Scotland’s early farming communities...
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 2
The Big Picture and Regional Narratives In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research to show how Scotland’s early farming...
Rhind Lectures 2020: Number 1
Neolithic Scotland: Changing Perceptions, New Approaches, Plethora of Data, and Contested Narratives In this year’s Society of Antiquaries of Scotland’s annual Rhind lectures, Dr Alison Sheridan is bringing together the most up-to-date research...
Video: Book launch event and talk
After months of hard work, the Ness of Brodgar interim monograph was launched at a special, socially distanced, event in Kirkwall last night. Discovered in 2003, excavation at the Neolithic complex began in...
Video: ‘Neolithic Carved Stone Balls in context’
Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, curator of prehistory (Palaeolithic to Neolithic) at the National Museums of Scotland, and Mark Hall, history officer at Perth Museum and Art Gallery, talk carved stone balls – focusing on...
Looking forward to our new book
Nick and Anne introduce our forthcoming interim monograph, The Ness of Brodgar: As it Stands. Due for release on November 18, 2020.
Carved Stone Balls – experimental archaeology workshop with Chris Gee
Chris Gee, of the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, discusses the creation of Neolithic carved stone balls. This video was made during the Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH)...
Stories in Stones – 2020 Orkney Science Festival Talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, Professor Mark Edmonds considers some of the stone artefacts from the Ness – including our carved stone ball – their origins and the story...
The Science of the Ness – 2020 Orkney Science Festival talk
In this talk for the 2020 Orkney Science Festival, site director Nick Card outlines the scientific techniques involved in excavation and post-excavation work and is joined by two colleagues from the Archaeology Institute...
Stone spatulate tools from the Ness of Brodgar – research presentation
The spatulate stone tools found at the Ness over the past few years were the subject of a research project in 2019. Archaeology Institute UHI graduate Gary Lloyd was awarded a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship...
Woodlands under the waves…
A talk by Dr Scott Timpany of the Archaeology Institute UHI on prehistoric woodlands preserved within intertidal peats around the coastline of Britain. Here Scott explains the information these lost woodlands can provide...
The trouble with Cuween: human remains from Neolithic Orkney
Do we have evidence of ritualised violence at Cuween? A video lecture from Dr Rebecca Crozier, well-known in Orkney for her work at the Quanterness Chambered Cairn, released as part of the University...