Ancient Biomolecules at the University of Aberdeen

A new paper from the Ancient Biomolecules team in Aberdeen 🕵️‍♂️

Gray wolves in an anthropogenic context on a small island in prehistoric Scandinavia | PNAS Dogs were domesticated at least once from a yet-unidentified wolf population at least ~15,000 y ago. However, how domestication took place is a top...

A new paper on Middle Pleistocene fauna led by members of our department, including an MSc student who completed our MSc Bioarchaeological Science programme in the 2023-2024 academic year: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25004894?fbclid=IwY2xjawNsZ0pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHolHyvi9sRP_u3vkjpkEgHPGWBUVS0JhK2vzvYvGtsacikfkwLezi1uAMjZe_aem_wfKxQb8U7IWUd62POurTEA

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Congratulations Elisabeth, an amazing recognition!

Aberdeen academic among 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize winners University of Aberdeen lecturer Dr Elisabeth Niklasson has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of her pioneering work on archaeology and political polarisation, heritage policy and governance, and archaeological funding mechanisms.

Applicable to all our programmes!

We're offering the Aberdeen Global Scholarships for self-funded international postgraduate students on campus beginning their journey with us in September 2025! This is your chance to experience Aberdeen student life and make lifelong connections - http://abdn.io/1tV

Interested in biomolecular archaeology? Check out the two MSc programmes we offer at Aberdeen. These come with a tuition fee waiver of £8,000 for international students for the September 2025 intake.

Join our department on a funded PhD project:

Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

Some new and exciting research in our department!

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines in their vitamin D levels over winter, despite the enormous changes in lifestyle and diet.

Archaeologists and nutrition scientists from the University of Aberdeen have teamed up with researchers from Ireland’s Atlantic Technological University and Boise State University (USA) to examine the long-term impact of living in a region with low levels of winter sunlight: http://abdn.io/24047g

Thinking about a masters at uoa? Come along to hear more about the PGT degrees in the School of Geoscience! We’ll be there to chat about ArchSoc; come and say hello!

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