Link: Gary secures PhD scholarship to continue his research into Neolithic stone tools
A familiar face at the Ness of Brodgar for the past few years has has won a prestigious PhD scholarship to investigate Neolithic stone tools from Orkney.
Gary Lloyd, who hails from Texas, completed his BA(Hons) and two Masters degrees at the UHI Archaeology Institute – the most recent of which was investigating multi-hollow cobbles from the Ness.
Entitled Made Through Making: Stonework, skill and social change in Neolithic Orkney, Gary’s four-year PhD project will explore the changing significance of stoneworking among the earliest farming communities of Orkney.
He will be working under the supervision of Dr Ben Elliott and Dr Antonia Thomas, and Professor Mark Edmonds, and with support from the Orkney Museum and the Ness of Brodgar Trust.
