📣 Thurs 27 Nov 2025 17:15 the Munro Lecture will be given by Dr Ricardo Fernandes @maxplanck.de "Isotopic snapshots: a 15,000-year journey through the human story" 🧪 book your FREE ticket here: tinyurl.com/3sx4rspn @hcaatedinburgh... #archsci #EdinArch #MunroLecture

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PhD Studentship alert!
I'm looking for a motivated student to work here in Vienna @vdsee-univie.bsky.social on my ERC grant "DISPERSE". It's a fulltime scholarship (working in 14C and #archsci in Palaeolithic archaeology in Eurasia.
Details in the link below!
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We are approaching conference season! We are currently preparing 9 presentations for 4 conferences, and look forward to sharing some of our first COEXIST project results, and more! #archsci #Palaeoproteomics #ZooMS #Zooarchaeology 🧪🦣

📣 NEW #OpenAccess #OpenScience 📄 🦷 article from PhD student Vera Haponava, Dr Linda Fibiger, Prof Catriona Pickard (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social) & Ian (UoE Geosciences) detailing best practice in destructive analysis incl how to 🎦 @edopenresearch.bsky.social #archsci #isotopes #EdinArch #osteology

This year the Associazione Italiana di Archeozoologia (AIAZ) will sponsor two prizes for best archaeozoology talk and poster at ISBA11 🎉

Fill in this form to be considered!
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#ISBA11 #archsci #aiaz #Archaeozoology
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

This year the Society for Archaeological Sciences is sponsoring a prize for best poster at ISBA11.

If you’d like to be considered, fill in this form! forms.gle/aak7VkHK4Bkq...

#ISBA11 #biomoleculararchaeology #Archaeology #archsci
@archaeobiomics.bsky.social @isbarchaeology.bsky.social

The puppy is bored but I’m having a great time writing about the 11th century in the ☀️ @liabetti.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #normans #earlymedieval #EdinArch #archsci

First presentation stop is the EDYTEM laboratory at Universite Savoie Mont Blanc, to give a presentation about the "Layers of Technology: Novel Archaeological Science Approaches to Mineral Pigments". Looking forward to meeting colleagues and making new connections. #UniMelb #archsci #cnrs🧪

Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3

Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci

New paper out on chert sourcing for our project in Eswatini. #ArchSci 🏺

Our @samleggs22.bsky.social is part of a new #exhibition @stgilescathedral.bsky.social@edinburghcouncil.bsky.social  about the 1st Burghers as part of #edinburgh 's 900th birthday! 🎂 Check it out at #StGiles until 30th Nov ⛪ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #edinarch #archaeology #scotland #archsci

A key to seasonal shellfish exploitation: Elemental mapping of Mg/Ca ratios in Lutruwita (Tasmania) Cellana limpets The littoral environment has considerable influence on life history traits and patterns of growth in marine molluscs due to changes in water temperatu…

Happy to share our new publication which shows the potential of LIBS Mg/Ca mapping to characterise seasonal shellfish foraging practices from Tasmanian limpet shells. 🐚 Led by @fleurking.bsky.social #archsci #sclerochronology @niklashausmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lecturer (Archaeological Science) #archsci #job - deadline 2nd June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DND779/l... @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Hiding in plain sight: the biomolecular identification of pinniped use in medieval manuscripts | Royal Society Open Science The survival of medieval manuscripts in their original bindings remains a rare occurrence. Taking advantage of the diversity of bindings in Cistercian libraries such as Clairvaux and its daughter abbe...

Nice new #zooms article; well done @matthewcollins.bsky.social and team

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#bioarch #medieval #archsci

We hit the moment in the semester when student research teams get their first data…. And #plots.
And there is much rejoicing.
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#archaeology #archsci #archaeologicalscience

Had a great week back in Oxford @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social learning more about Oxcal modeling 📈 & got to duck into @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social to say 👋 & chat #earlymedieval things ☀️ lots to 🧠 on the 🚂 back to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #archsci #isotopes #C14 #archaeology #ArchaeoFINS 🧪 🦴

TOMORROW 13 March 16:15 in our seminar series is Prof Jill Burke ‘Renaissance goo: Historic recipes as multidisciplinary trading zones’ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social in the Meadows Lecture Theatre #EdinArch #exarch #archsci #renaissance #history #arthistory #Edinburgh

Really lovely to see some of our fabulous Archaeological Science Masters students featuring in this great little video about radiocarbon at Oxford!
#archaeology #archsci #masters

Want to hear about the results from #ArchaeoFINS? Come along to my talk next week @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social! I can promise exciting results from Iona & other sites! @leverhulme.bsky.social #medieval #archsci #earlymedieval #vikings 🐟 ⛪️ ⚔️ 🏰

FMSG seminar 4 March 6pm Meadows LT @samleggs22.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 'The Salmon of Knowledge? Identity, mobility & food in early medieval Scotland: a biomolecular approach' 🐟 🧪 #EdinArch #Archaeology #Medieval #isotope #ArchSci #Scotland @leverhulme.bsky.social #ArchaeoFINS

#FindsFriday visiting PhD Daniel Claggett @flindersmap.bsky.social 3D scanning #Viking boat rivets from Shetland & the Isle of Man ahead of doing further metallurgical analyses 👀 more updates soon! ⛵⚔️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #EdinArch #ArchSci #archaeology #medieval #maritime #archaeometallurgy

NOW - our One Health Archaeology research group is hosting a workshop on taphonomy 🦴 ☠️ @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social #OneHealth #archaeology #taphonomy #forensics #osteology #EdinArch #cannibalism #zooarch #archsci

Lots of exciting #Zooarch and #ArchSci 🧪accounts to follow in my starter pack including the new profile for our @archaeoprotein.bsky.social lab at University of Reading; if you haven't checked it out before take a look....or simply reacquaint yourself: go.bsky.app/Nv8XE4r

Spoiler: it’s not about combs; I’d not even discovered them at this point. Not even many Vikings either! #medieval #zooarchaeology #zooarch #archsci #medarch

Stephanie Beaupark Sees Chemistry Through an Indigenous Lens To track changes in the colors of eucalyptus, this Ngugi researcher gathers knowledge in Aboriginal communities as well as in the lab.

Great to see this article from @cenmag.bsky.social focusing on Indigenous knowledge, #analyticalchemistry and Australian pigments highlighting Stephanie Beaupark’s eucalyptus pigment research. Excited to be interviewed as part of this article #archsci!

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and how fantastic would that be!!!
Don't miss this opportunity to work with @nannonstevens.bsky.social, Selina Brace and Silvia Bello doing #ArchSci on UP bone tools 😍
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Dielectric replica measurement: a new technique for obtaining the complex permittivity of irregularly shaped objects A new method for the identification of raw materials in archaeological artefacts

One that I don't claim a lot of credit for as a small part of Martin Robinson's team, but here we are playing with new ways of identifying #materials in #artefacts...

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#archsci #archaeology #newresearch

Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia New scientific methods for identifying raw materials demonstrate the consistent use of whalebone- most particularly the North Atlantic Right Whale - in making gaming pieces in Iron-Age Scandinavia. Co...

Here's a piece I was involved in w/ Andreas Hennius et al, in which we analysed materials used in making #Viking & pre-viking gaming pieces in #Scandinavia, and used it to rethink prehistoric #whaling

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#bioarch #zooms #proteomics #archsci #newresearch #archaeology

Pink goes good with green 💚🩷 #Wicked #chemistry in our Andy Barlow lab 🧪 looking @ migration & diet in #EarlyMedieval #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 for the @leverhulme.bsky.social #ArchaeoFINS project 🐟 @samleggs22.bsky.social #archsci #edinarch #science #womeninstem #isotopes #Picts #vikings #archaeology

More #archsci at #aaa47: Ishara Pathirage on characterising the geology of gabbro rock art canvases on Murujuga country. @crar-m.bsky.social #unimelb