Archaeology Research

The Form and Fabric of Early Medieval Britain: Reflections on the archaeology of Ewan Campbell

Sun, 25 Oct 2020 15:21:00 GMT

A seminar series hosted jointly between Archaeology and the Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies in 2020-21, in honour of the achievements of archaeologist Ewan Campbell, University of Glasgow.

Bioarchaeology Early Career Conference 2021

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:25:00 GMT

25-28 March 2021

Fourth Scottish Student Archaeology Society Conference

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:20:00 GMT

13-14 February 2021

Research Project to Unwrap Secrets of the Galloway Hoard

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:00:00 GMT

National Museums Scotland has been awarded a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct a £1million research project into the Galloway Hoard, one of the most important UK archaeological finds of the century.

Archaeology Seminar Series

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:06:00 GMT

Semester 2 programme available

The Form and Fabric of Early Medieval Britain IV: Hillforts and People

Sun, 17 Jan 2021 11:02:00 GMT

Wednesday 20 January 2021

Luca Ottonello awarded 1st place for paper at CASA conference

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 09:37:00 GMT

A prestigious award for our 1st year PhD student!

In memory of our friend and colleague Allan Hall

Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:24:00 GMT

The sad loss of Allan Hall

Jennifer Bates on the Indus Civilisation

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:02:00 GMT

Wednesday 27 January 2021

Daniel Contreras on Identifying Human Responses to Holocene Climate Change

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 11:18:00 GMT

Wednesday 3 February 2021

#BlackInArchaeologyWeek

Sun, 31 Jan 2021 15:29:00 GMT

A celebration of the past, present and future of Black archaeologists around the world.

Dr Daniel Calderbank's new paper

Tue, 02 Feb 2021 09:15:00 GMT

What's in a Vessel's Name? A Relational Text-Object Approach to the Uses of Mesopotamian Pottery

Part VII of ‘The Form and Fabric of Early Medieval Britain: Reflections on the archaeology of Ewan Campbell’

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 14:59:00 BST

Wednesday 28 April 2021

Gleann Comhann/Glencoe: landscape and performance in a digital glen.

Mon, 08 Feb 2021 15:22:00 GMT

Wednesday 10 February 2021

Seminar by Astrid Van Oyen

Thu, 18 Feb 2021 15:32:00 GMT

Wednesday 24 February 2021

Marta Innes: Scottish Bronze Age Food Vessel Pottery: a new materialist approach to corpus assemblages.

Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:50:29 GMT

Wednesday 3 March 2021

Seminar by Lisa-Marie Shillito

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 15:58:00 GMT

Wednesday 10 March 2021

Seminar by Naomi Sykes

Sun, 14 Mar 2021 11:19:00 GMT

Wednesday 17 March 2021

Seminar by Enrico Crema

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 11:10:00 GMT

Wednesday 24 March 2021

Kenny Brophy receives GUSRA Student Teaching Award for Highly Innovative Teaching

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:45:00 GMT

Huge congratulations to him!

Archaeology offers a way to measure the extent humans have contributed to global climate change

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 09:00:00 BST

A worldwide team of academics are offering a new way to measure and quantify the extent humans have contributed to global climate change using archaeology, a new paper shows

Seminar by Dr Jaafar Jotheri

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:57:00 BST

Wednesday 21 April 2021

Deep-time dialogues - a conversation about the SERF Project

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:17:00 BST

Tuesday 13 April 2021

Kenny Brophy and Andrew Watson awarded a British Academy Leverhulme small grant

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 08:50:00 BST

They will research the barrow columbaria phenomenon

Dr Nicki Whitehouse publishes a new paper on the historical legacies of river systems

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:57:00 BST

Nicki used a case study from the River Culm in Devon, England

Seminar by Petra Vaiglova

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:25:00 BST

Wednesday 5 May 2021

We're hiring a Research Associate

Mon, 03 May 2021 10:52:00 BST

Remote and Near Surface Sensing – Archaeology / Agriculture Cross-Domain Applications

Seminar by Conor McAdams

Sun, 09 May 2021 16:10:51 BST

Wednesday 19 May 2021

PhD studentship available on Imagining ancient Egypt in the age of empire: Identity and Power in Scottish Museum Displays of Egyptian Objects, 1860 to 1930

Wed, 12 May 2021 16:46:00 BST

Deadline for applications: Monday 7 June 2021

Researchers look at new modern prehistoric burial trend

Tue, 25 May 2021 08:00:00 BST

University of Glasgow academics are to look at the modern-day phenomenon of why people are wishing to be buried like their prehistoric ancestors, it has been announced today (25 May 2021)

Archaeology student wins Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2020

Wed, 26 May 2021 12:05:39 BST

Congratulations to Franciska Mátéová

Ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and palaeoecological evidence reveals construction and life on early medieval lake settlements

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:55:43 BST

New paper in Nature Scientific Reports around the use of ancient DNA, lipid biomarkers and environmental records

Former student awarded Kennedy Scholarship for postgraduate study at Harvard University

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 14:09:19 BST

Congratulations to Liam Devlin who graduated in 2017 with an MA in Archaeology and Classical Civilisation

Glasgow University Archaeology Festival 9-27 August 2021

Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:29:00 BST

This event will celebrate the unique Glasgow way by bringing together past and present staff and students of the Archaeology Department in an online festival.

Scottish Archaeological Forum conference, 23-24 October 2021

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 08:39:00 BST

Call for papers

Bright Edge Deep: peatlands in history, cultural heritage, and climate - a round table discussion

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 20:04:00 BST

Wednesday 11 August 2021, 18:00-20:00 (online, Zoom)

Terrestrial archaeology: archaeology for a changing planet

Mon, 16 Aug 2021 15:51:00 BST

Check out our seminar series programme for the autumn semester!

Seminar on Wednesday 6 October 2021

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 14:10:00 BST

Carla Lancelotti (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) on Past, present and future of smart crops: An ethnographic and modelling approach to mapping long-term millets cultivation in drylands

2021 PhD Proposal Competition and Workshop

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 14:40:00 BST

Thinking about doing a PhD in Archaeology and want support in producing a proposal that will be competitive for funding? Read further....

Congratulations to Louisa Campbell!

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:12:00 BST

For her latest paper in the Journal of Public Archaeology

Bright Edge Deep online exhibition

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:46:14 BST

Exploring the Cultural and Scientific Life of Peatlands

Dalrymple Lecture Series 2021

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:31:00 BST

8 to 11 November 2021

Seminar on Wednesday 13 October 2021

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 14:48:00 BST

Ruben Post (University of St. Andrews) on Ancient Graeco-Roman History and the Contemporary Climate Crisis: Rhetoric, Pedagogy, and Relevance

Seminar on Wednesday 20 October 2021

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 16:20:00 BST

Marcy Rockman (University of Maryland and Co-Equal) on Landscapes of Knowledge and Power in Climate Change Science and Policy

PhD scholarships available for 2022/23

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 6 December 2021

Finding peace with painting - a model example of improving veteran mental health

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 09:00:00 BST

Created by veterans whose wellbeing has been improved by the therapeutic aspects of painting, this expansive new model brings to life the most famous land battle in history.

Seminar on Wednesday 27 October 2021

Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:17:07 BST

Felix Riede (Aarhus University) on Curating catastrophe – bringing the archaeology of past extreme environmental events and their societal impacts to bear on the present

Seminar on Wednesday 3 November 2021

Sun, 31 Oct 2021 11:30:00 GMT

Mairi Davies (Historic Environment Scotland) on Resistance, adaptation, acceptance: managing climate change risk to cultural heritage in Scotland

Seminar on Wednesday 10 November 2021

Sat, 06 Nov 2021 11:41:00 GMT

Carole Crumley (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) on Taking Historical Ecology to Administrators and Policy Makers

Seminar on Wednesday 17 November 2021

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:01:04 GMT

Science Panel with Amy Bogaard, Andrew Dugmore, Hannah Fluck, Ian Simpson, S. Yoshi Maezumi, and chaired by Nicki Whitehouse

Bright Edge Deep news

Sun, 14 Nov 2021 14:27:00 GMT

The Bright Edge Deep project has received a lot of interest and engagement over the last few weeks

James McCune Smith Scholarships

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:02:00 BST

10 Four-year PhD scholarships available to Black British students at the University of Glasgow

Seminar on Wednesday 24 November 2021

Sun, 21 Nov 2021 09:00:00 GMT

Susan Pollock and Reinhard Bernbeck (Freie Universität Berlin) on Materiality of Modernity: An Archaeology of World War II Forced Labor Camps in Berlin

Undergraduate dissertation prize won by Carlota Balcells

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 09:33:00 GMT

Congratulations to Carlota for being award this CBRL prize

Documentary about the Bayeux Tapestry

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 16:10:00 GMT

Congratulations to Dr Alexandra Makin on being interviewed for the documentary to appear on the BBC.

Dr Daniel Calderbank's new book is out!

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMT

Pottery from Tell Khaiber: A Craft Tradition of the First Sealand Dynasty

Galloway Hoard yields another exciting discovery, the name of a Bishop Hyguald inscribed on rare rock crystal jar

Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:00:00 GMT

A rare rock crystal jar found wrapped in textiles as part of the Galloway Hoard has been conserved, revealing a Latin inscription written in gold. The inscription says the jar was made for a bishop named Hyguald.

Listen to Claudia Glatz on BBC In Our Time

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 11:05:00 GMT

Claudia discusses the Hittites with İlgi Gerçek, Christoph Bachhuber