Edinburgh Archaeology

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This is the official Bluesky account for the Department of Archaeology part of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. https://hca.ed.ac.uk/archaeology

Photo of the inside of the Playfair Library at the University of Edinburgh - high Georgian ceilings and columns. A projector screen in blue hues has the school of History, Classics & Archaeology logo with “2026 CONGRATULATIONS” on it.
Photograph from the air of a floodplain. Image courtesy of Barry Molloy.
View of Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland UK from the beach. Wallers and two dogs in the midground. Image credit: Alice Wolff.
Black and white photo of Barbara Laidler washing a stone on West Kennet Avenue. Photo ©Alexander Keiller Museum.
Screenshot of Dr Gardner's magazine article. Full alt-text not provided by author.
Top Left: Photograph of V.G. Childe c. 1930s, Australia, Public Domain. Top Right: Photograph of Stuart Piggott, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2741252. Bottom: “Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery” By Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114215413.
Reconstruction of burial event: Sara Nylund
Figure 6 from the study: Average MCI comparison for the age groups of females and males of the present study (Scottish), Wharram Percy (English) (Mays 1996) and Velia (Roman) (Beauchesne and Agarwal 2014). Under a CC BY 4.0 License.
Fig 7 from the study: Two middle adult females with similar Ct.Po but different MCI and Ct.Ar/Tt.Ar values. Lines show MCI measurement points. This includes a complete spur due to a trabecularised pore in the second tomographic slice. Palmar is up. Scale bar = 5 mm. Under a CC BY 4.0 License.
micro-CT scan cross-sections of metacarpals from the study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70209. Credit: Luisa Less.
Map of the locations where the Soay sheep studied in this research lived - St Kilda (a remote island off the outer Hebrides in Scotland) and in Newmarket, Woburn and London, England.
Two horned adult Soay sheep grazing, with logs in the foreground and fencing behind them. Photo credit: Robin Bendrey.
Photograph of a Soay Sheep lamb with tags in its ears facing the camera, standing on grass. Source - A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection. Gross L, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/7/2006, e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1479004
Spatial distribution of sites included in the dataset. The size of the circle reflects the number of entries originating from a specific location, while colour intensity reflects their density. The map was created in QGIS 3.34 software using ESRI Terrain basemap.
A festive image in red and gold with stars, snowflakes, ribbons and tree fronds which says: Happy Holidays! Have a wonderful winter break! From Edinburgh Archaeology.