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Great coverage of the Edinburgh’s First Burghers exhibition in the Scotsman - it has been brilliant to see this Historic Environment Scotland funded work go from the lab to exhibition! Dr Orsolya Czére Tom Booth scotsman.com/heritage-and-r…

For the penultimate talk at the Europa meeting we have Richard Bunning on trackways and water transport in the Somerset Levels - pondering how humans navigated and understood the very different worlds of marsh land, wetland, high ground and sea Prehistoric Society

And now to the main event - the Europa lecture from Martin Bell - route-ways and paths as ‘entanglement made manifest’ for human and non-human entities. Movement is the ‘connective tissue between sites’ - inspirational! Prehistoric Society

This week I’ve scoured letters at NMS for Pleistocene animals; celebrated Medieval life at an exhibition opening; & been immersed in prehistoric landscapes at the Europa in Reading. Archaeology is so rich and varied. Thank you to everyone who shared their knowledge & passion!

This week we also had a full-day PALaEoScot team meeting & welcomed our new PhD student, Tayla! It was wonderful to hear updates on the incredible lithics, palaeontological and palaeoenvironmental work the team is doing, and to discuss what’s next & to have some social time too!

Kate Britton talking to us about the #PaleoScot project - it's fascinating! There are BEARS

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to Archaeological Proteomics Lab for offering this wonderful training opportunity to Sarah Barakat and helping us develop our ZooMS capacity Archaeology at UoA - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us! European Research Council (ERC) UK Research and Innovation funded

This week #PALaEoScot has been testing this wee rock shelter, hopeful for signs of Scotland’s earliest archaeology. So far just some cracking lithology (literally) and a very friendly dog - but watch this space! 🦴 🦌 🦣 🪨 with Mesolithic Deeside UK Research and Innovation

A memorable, creative and restorative week at Moniack Mhor for a writing retreat. Met some wonderful people, was fed like a Queen and broke out of the academic writing bubble just a little bit. Moniack Mhor - like a spa for the brain!

(Very) Late to the party but enjoying it immensely - wonderful words Dr. Rebecca Wragg Sykes would recommend KINDRED to anyone interested in learning more about Neanderthals, visiting the other-worlds of the past, or learning more about the process of field and research archaeology

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PalaeoScot is down in Pembroke for the week - it’s a PalaeoScot-PalaeoWales collab! We’ve done some isotope work at Wogan Cavern over the last few years and it’s great to finally see the site & to check out a potential new cave with some of the Wogan team too 👀 🦣 🦌 UK Research and Innovation

Great to bring another conference to our department and our fair city!

Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…