🔎Scottish Archaeology Collections in Scottish Museums: 2024 Survey🔎

🔗Link to survey: surveymonkey.com/r/JVVLQVL

⌛️ Completion time: roughly 25 minutes
📅Deadline for completion: 30 April 2024
📩Questions? Contact [email protected]
⬇️Further info in thread below

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Orkney has a new Maes Howe- type passage grave. Digging in museum archives paid off this time!
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

NEW PAPER! What happens if we combine the #Paleopathological study of a #CranialTrauma 💀 in #Prehistory with the #Experimental forensic-ballistic methodology? 🔬
This is what we have done in our new article, which I summarize in this #thread . 🧵⬇️ Follow it!🤗

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Issue 5 of Celebrating Archaeology in Scotland is now out! Grab a hot drink and prepare to read a trenchload of exciting archaeology from across Scotland in 2022.
Download for free below⤵️
archaeologystrategy.scot/magazine/

Very excited to announce that our Research Questions Survey for the SIRFA Orkney Symposium is now live! If you have any research questions you think need answered or areas of research that you feel are ignored, this is your time to shine! Let us know at: uhi.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/sirfa-orkney-r…

Lovely to feature in #sketchfab 's cultural heritage top 10 again, back to the #Mesolithic this time

Museum job alert! National Museums Scotland are looking for an Assistant Curator of Prehistoric and Roman Archaeology, primarily looking after Iron Age and Roman collections. Temporary gig for 5 months. Great team of people guaranteed.
vacancies.nms.ac.uk/VacancyDetails…

Delighted to see the second episode of our Prehistoric Scotland series now released on History Hit💥. Watch the legends Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett, Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark, Matt Knight and alison sheridan guide you through the incredible ancient story of Kilmartin Glen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦌🪨

📺🎬 access.historyhit.com/videos/mysteri…

Best. Scottish Heritage job. Ever.

Tell your friends: National Museums Scotland is looking for our next KEEPER OF SCOTTISH HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY.

jobs.theguardian.com/job/8283118

What a line up! Check out some (but not all!) of the fantastic speakers and activities we’ve got planned for Prehistory on the Edge abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/de… #palaeolithic #mesolithic #neolithic #Scotland #Archaeology

A superb free event in National Museums Scotland this weekend only! Come and see some fab Hebridean sites in #VR and #AR

📣Exciting announcement: Uist Unearthed is coming to National Museums Scotland as part of Scottish Archaeology Month! Join our team in Edinburgh this weekend (17th + 18th Sept) as we shine a light on Uist’s world class archaeology with our multimedia exhibition✨

Today is #FindsFriday - an ideal time to contribute to the Finds Hub! 🔎

All 42,561 museum objects in the Finds Hub were found in Scotland, but most aren’t digitally linked to their find locations. Can you help connect them?
finds-hub.org/about#:~:text=…

#ScotArchMonth #archaeology

New #Stonehenge carvings found?
Gavin Leong Gavin Leong and Matthew Brolly Matthew Brolly from the School of Applied Sciences University of Brighton demonstrate a new technique with TeraView to remotely identify prehistoric carvings beneath lichen. sarsen.org/2022/08/new-pr…

Save the date! November 11th and 12th 2022 - come join us in Aberdeen for presentations, discussions, archaeology-centred activities - and maybe a little bit of gin! #mesolithic #palaeolithic #neolithic #archaeology

I came across this huge piece of fossil fish on Westray today - one plate that's bigger than my hand. A piece of Homosteus Milleri perhaps?

Right then, who wants my old job? Please RT and share with anyone you think might be interested! english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/jobs/…