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Emerging Research, and a chance to meet students and staff of the UHI Archaeology Institute
Emerging research: UHI Archaeology Institute
Join current UHI Archaeology Institute PhD students to find out about the latest emerging research in Archaeology. Short talk topics will range from Neolithic stone tools, Bronze Age cultivation, mapping landscapes, to early medieval burial and graves in 19-20th century Orkney. The event will be a chance to meet staff and post-graduate students and find out about the research activities of the department. There will be information stalls.
The students will all give short presentation on their work followed by questions
All welcome, no need to book in advance.
Speakers:
Gary Lloyd: The life story of a cobble: What everyday stone tools reveal about Neolithic Orkney.
Logan O’Brien: Data, meaning and value in mapping vulnerable landscapes in Orkney
Sophie Durbin: Accessing an aura: approaching burial in early medieval Orkney through remoteness.
Heather Leonard: “Islands lie behind the sun that I shall raise ere all is done”: Revealing island identities on Mainland, Orkney through grave markers and GPS mapping, 1825-1925.
Julia Brunner: Cultivating the Bronze Age: Agricultural practices and climatic variability in Orkney and Ireland.