We're doing it again!! ☺️
As part of the work that Tertia Barnett and I are doing with @scarf-scot.bsky.social, we'll be running another event to celebrate rock art research and launch brand-new sections of the Scottish Archaeological Research Framework.
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Between 2017-22 I was a Post-doc researcher with Scotland's Rock Art Project.
The project was funded by the AHRC and recently the @ukri.org invited us to feature their new Future Makers series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPsR...
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🇫🇷 Thursday’s Research Seminar 12/2/26 @16:15 in the Meadows LT will be given by Dr Florian Cousseau (Durham) “Central #Brittany in the Middle #Neolithic: A Landscape Far from Empty” 🔗https://hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events/research-seminars/archaeology-seminars @hcaatedinburgh #edinarch #archaeology
There's an amazing job up for grabs in Cork, Ireland!!
Lecturer in Prehistoric Archaeology!
Not only would the post be focussing on Neolithic Ireland and Europe but also have some archaeological theory on the side!!
www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
And here is the conference’s webpage hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... Looking forward to your paper proposals!
Poster. Pen and ink image of an opening in a stone cliff face to left. Text to right giving notice of the third conference on quarries and rock cut sites, archaeological perspectives, University of Edinburgh 14 to 15 May 2026. The conference examines human-stone relationships through quarries, rock-cut architecture and rock art.
Poster. Call for papers to left including conference themes. Facing risks, Cuting into Living Roack, Heritage and Recent and ongoing research. Deadline 31 December 2025. Text to right giving notice of the third conference on quarries and rock cut sites, archaeological perspectives, University of Edinburgh 14 to 15 May 2026. The conference examines human-stone relationships through quarries, rock-cut architecture and rock art.
📣 Call for Papers! International Research Network on Quarries and Rock-cut Sites, third conference.
The deadline is 31 December 2025 for conference on 14-15 May 2026 at University of Edinburgh.
The four wide-ranging themes offer broad scope from #archaeology, #geology, #history, #envhums 🏺
Top: Cramond causeway, Edinburgh © Bess Rhodes; Bottom left: Fulton Tower, Scottish Borders © Jane Bower; Bottom right: Settlement Fort in Carved in Stone © Anine Bösenberg
New chapters of the South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework (SESARF) are now live on the ScARF website and ready for your input!
Read all about the framework, how you can contribute, and more exciting updates in our November newsletter: bit.ly/4ohXxPO
📣 New Open Access Paper! Led by Dr Robin Bendrey & published in EMPH it explores how #OneHealth approaches can aid our understanding of infectious disease dynamics associated with emergent animal farming in both the past and the present 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoaf029 #EdinArch #zooarch
Photo of a stone cairn in a green field with the text "Online Fellows' Meeting" overlaid
ONLINE FELLOWS’ MEETING: Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments
In 2024, we awarded funding to @archscot.bsky.social to investigate Scotland’s Early Neolithic megalithic chambered and passage tombs. Hear an update at this Fellows-only event on 13 November: www.socantscot.org/upcoming-eve...
Call for Papers poster, 3rd IRAAR Conference, Quarries and Rock-cut Sites through the lens of archaeology. Conference themes. Facing Risks (Challenges, adaptations and transformations in quarrying and rock-hewing practices). Cutting into Living Rock (Dialogue between quarries, rock-cut architecture and rock art studies). Heritage (Archaeological Quarries and rock-cut sites in the present). At the Cutting Edge (Current research on quarries and rock-cut sites). Abstracts maximum 300 words and one image to iraargroup@gmail.com
There's still time to submit an abstract for the 2026 International Network on Quarrying and Rock-cut Sites conference 🏺 #archaeology
Call for Papers deadline 31 Dec 2025, conference 14-15 May 2026 in Edinburgh.
Includes a theme on the intersection of quarrying, rock-cut sites and rock art!
House ST4.1 during excavation at the Copper Age site of Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia)
Today at 4pm (UK time) I’ll give a talk at the University of Glasgow archaeology seminar about our excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Copper Age settlement, Sardinia). This will also be on Zoom www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
Thank you Arianna Magyaricsová for the invite!
Are you an archaeologist working on quarries or rock-cut structures? Please submit a paper proposal at this upcoming conference (Edinburgh, UK, 14-15 May 2026) hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even... @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social
Delighted to see our new book on Toraja rock-cut tombs fresh from the press! Many thanks to Julie Gardiner and @oxbowbooks.bsky.social
Just-announced programme for the Highland Archaeology Festival in Inverness next month. I'll be there talking about evidence for the early church in Urquhart, the Aird and Strathglass, drawing on some of my most recent research. Looking forward to meeting and hearing from others!
Some ethnoarchaeological excitement is coming your way! This upcoming volume is the first book dedicated to Toraja rock-cut tombs, providing a detailed overview of and fresh insights into this unique burial tradition. Learn more ➡ bit.ly/3HvRbg9
(Regional Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture for Sardinia)
Three ancient rock-cut chamber tombs of a type known as "Domus de Janas" have been uncovered in Sardinia’s Sant’Andrea Priu archaeological complex.
archaeology.org/news/2025/08/01/ancient-sardinian-tombs-uncovered/
Call for papers!
Conference on the archaeology of quarrying and rock-cut sites, May 2026 in Edinburgh.
You have plenty of time to send your abstract, but don’t leave it too late either!
#archaeology 🏺
hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...
Today, the unique Neolithic rock-cut tombs of Sardinia (domus de janas) have been inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. A much deserved recognition! whc.unesco.org/en/list/1730
Many thanks to Bonorva municipality, Soprintendenza di Sassari, Forestas, and our partners @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @inrap.fr @umr5608traces.bsky.social for another successful season. See you again next year!
Aerial view of Middle Bronze Age round house ST8.4 at Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva) during the 2025 excavation
Middle Bronze Age decorated sherd from Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva) 2025 excavation
Middle Bronze Age spindle whorl from Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva) 2025 excavation
Aerial view of Middle Bronze Age rectangular buildings ST8.1 and ST8.3 at Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva) during the 2025 excavation
End of the 2025 excavations at Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia). This year we explored a Middle Bronze Age cluster of round and rectangular stone houses, representing a later phase of occupation at the site.
Florian Soula and Antonio d’Agostino from @inrap.fr Corsica have just joined the excavation team at the Chalcolithic settlement site of Punta Ferulosu (Bonorva, Sardinia). They will dig with us until the 26th June. Ben tornati (welcome back) Florian and Antonio!
Excavations have resumed this week at the Chalcolithic settlement site of Punta Ferulosu (Sardinia) with archaeology students from @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social
Very excited to read these two new books that have just arrived by the post: Pierre Pétrequin’s final two volumes of the JADE project’s monograph series, and Serge Cassen’s “monumental” monograph on the Gavrinis decorated chambered tomb in Brittany #neolithic
