PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge

Spotting her first MALDI plate! Thanks to @archaeoprotein for offering this wonderful training opportunity to @Sarah_Barakat_ and helping us develop our ZooMS capacity @UoA_Archaeology - and for running our first PALaEoScot samples with us! @ERC_Research @UKRI_News 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 @mesodeeside @UKRI_News

PalaeoScot in Perthshire today!

Great to see our Scottish bone caves hitting international conferences!

On Wednesday, we’re presenting our first results on the study of the fauna from Reindeer Cave (NW Scotland), with @PrehistoricEdge, at TAPHOS conference 🤓 Here is the link to the programme and abstracts 👇 annali.unife.it/FST

Great to be at the @PrehistSociety Europa conference today, a celebration of landscape connectivity in prehistory and the career and work of the wonderful Martin Bell. First up, a fascinating and rapid-fire tour of 900,000 years of island (and not island) Britain with Matt Pope

🧬Welcome to the new Palaeoproteomics Lab at the University of Bologna – Department of Cultural Heritage (Ravenna), where we study ancient proteins preserved in archaeological remains such as bones and teeth.

Was great having you up here Alicia! And great to hear all about the cool work you are doing at NMS on the Inchnadamph fauna and cannot wait for you to join us here in Aberdeen full time!

Alicia is spending lots of time getting to know the animals of the Assynt bone caves - one of the most important Late Pleistocene sites in Scotland. Their will help us understand not only what species are represented but also help us understand how the deposits were formed 🦌 🐻

Join the PALaEoScot project! We are seeking a PhD student to conduct novel ZooMS and sedaDNA studies in Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Scotland! Fully funded research, 36 months, stipend and fees (NB. U.K. domiciled fees only). Closing 13/4/25 findaphd.com/phds/project/f…

Who says Buchan flint is not knappable?! Lovely work from our in-house stone-whisperer Dr Will Mills #flintfriday #experimentalarchaeology #mesolithic #palaeolithic #iceage

We miss you Alicia! But cannot wait to see what you unearth 🦌 😃

We are delighted to welcome @aliciasanzroyo to our PALaEoScot Team! Working between Edinburgh and Aberdeen, Alicia will study the Late Pleistocene fauna of Scotland, and help us piece together the palaeoecological context of Scotland’s Late Glacial lives🦌 🦬 🦣 🐴 🐺

We had the privilege of welcoming @AHRCPress to @SciTecDaresbury for the launch of the RICHeS programme. Learn more about this programme, and how bringing RICHeS onto campus will put heritage science at the heart of research and innovation ▶️▶️ youtu.be/o2yBJKvPP8Y?si…

Read the fishy-bear paper for free in the link below, also published at bioone.org/journals/annal…

‘Fishier than the average bear’ - isotope data may point to polar bears in the Inchnadamph bone caves prior to the last glaciation maximum 🐻‍❄️

We’re thrilled to be providing an update on excavations at @Wogan Cavern as part of the upcoming Pembrokeshire Archaeology Day (9th Nov). Come and hear about the latest #Palaeolithic and #Mesolithic research @Wogan Cavern as well as other archaeological projects in Pembrokeshire

Of course. A sensible past me would actually have included a link to the paper in this self-congratulatory post... 🤦‍♂️ liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hg…

The PALaEoScot website is finally live! It’s still very much a work in progress but great to have somewhere to land 🦣 🦌 🦬 🐴 abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/de…

Today's @ScotArchMonth researcher spotlight is @ArchSoundScapes from @UHIArchaeology, researching Tarradale Shell Midden! #ScotArchResearch