University of Glasgow Archaeology

Archaeology and Cultural Heritage in Iraq: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
A one-day workshop on Thursday 1 May 2025

Participation is free, but please register your participation by sending an email to [email protected] or [email protected]

All details (inc programme) on:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/currentresearch/archaeologyandculturalheritageiniraq/ .en.1173847

Congratulations to Professor Claudia Glatz, Dr Daniel Calderbank et al on their latest publication: 'Place, Encounter and the Making of Communities'

https://www.sidestone.com/books/place-encounter-and-the-making-of-communities

For more information on the Sirwan Regional Project, please check
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/currentresearch/sirwanregionalproject/

All welcome to join this online event on Friday! To join please scan the QR code in the poster.

Does this copper alloy pin tell the story of a dramatic escape during the Massacre of Glencoe?

Read about our research here:
https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftheconversation.com%2Fglen-coe-fresh-archaeological-discoveries-bring-new-insights-into-lives-of-massacred-macdonald-clan-244850&data=05%7C02%7CChristelle.LeRiguer%40glasgow.ac.uk%7C2efc60d2edeb448bc51708dd192e5803%7C6e725c29763a4f5081f22e254f0133c8%7C1%7C0%7C638694409010252034%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dCj33j2dtjmzdVl6Vm933fhV%2BMcdT%2BkdMNeEJ%2FSCMkE%3D&reserved=0

Congratulations to Professor Claudia Glatz's team on the publication of their paper on the LC site of Shakhi Kora!

A rather amazing site with an intriguing occupation history that suggests the development of local institutional households, followed by an Uruk one, and then the rejection of this type of centralised organisation/power.

Read about it here on X:
https://x.com/AntiquityJ/status/1864257095463260407

Read the paper here:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/there-and-back-again-local-institutions-an-uruk-expansion-and-the-rejection-of-centralisation-in-the-sirwanupper-diyala-region/B4346D8FD24BB63BA2B58B236FEB28CD

New PDRA position available in Archaeology - Interdisciplinary Research Associate

Closing date 21 November 2024

We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to make a leading contribution to the UKRI-funded Land Use for Net Zero project Rapid Engagement with Stressed Peatland Environments and Communities in Transformation “RESPECT” (PI – Prof Jill Robbie), Work Package 1: Peatland Through Space and Time. You would be part of a team of PDRAs, based mainly at the University of Glasgow. The position is based in Glasgow, working with Prof Nicki Whitehouse (Co-I) and Dr Adrian Bass (Co-I).

Our project aims to produce new thinking and transdisciplinary research outputs to facilitate landholders to undertake peatland restoration on agricultural land and reduce carbon emissions through land use change. This post will work to establish the current and future physical capacity of land in the case study regions (the Forth and Humber catchments) to contribute to net zero and prioritise areas for peatland restoration. The position will carry out data collection and analyses in both case study regions. These will include analyses of new and existing LiDAR, geoarchaeological, archaeological and palaeoecological data to develop a landscape model of Quaternary evolution and chronology, alongside targeted landscape geoarchaeological analysis of key catchment locations for radiocarbon and stratigraphic analysis. Existing palaeoecological (pollen) data sets will be used to develop modelled land cover map(s) of the targeted regions over time using the Multiple Scenarios Approach (MSA), underpinned by the Quaternary landscape evolution model, to inform future land cover management practices and decision making. Working with other researchers in the Work Package, you will map the distribution, depth, condition, and age of peatlands over time and space and identify areas where peatland restoration may be best facilitated based on present and past conditions and distributions, alongside identifying areas where the associated historic environment record may be vulnerable to projected climate change and future land-use management.
The post also involves co-working across multiple disciplines including law & policy, social and physical sciences. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to the formulation and submission of research publications and research proposals as well as help manage and direct this complex and challenging project as opportunities allow.

This post is full time and fixed term until 31 July 2027 (with a possibility of further extension of 5 months).

Please contact Prof Nicki Whitehouse ([email protected]) for further information on this project and position.

Closing date : 21 November 2024

Further details:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKM419/interdisciplinary-research-associate

Achnambeithach in the rain!

📢Read our blog post about ours Masters students' recent field trip to Glencoe

▶️https://glencoeandrannochenvirons.wordpress.com/2024/10/24/achnambeithach-in-the-rain/

📢 PhD Proposal Competition and Workshop

💡Thinking about doing a PhD in Archaeology and want support in producing a proposal that will be competitive for funding?

➡️Read further:
https://gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/latestnews/headline_1118697_en.html

Deadline for applications: 5pm (UK) on Wednesday 30 October 2024.

📢Join us for our first research seminar of 2024-25!

📅 Wednesday 2 October 4pm

Cauldrons, kailyards & microphones: Glencoe, 2024
Derek Alexander , Michael Given

Livestream available - all details in bio

📢Archaeology Research Seminars 2024-25

🗓️Wednesdays from 4pm, with the first seminar is on Wednesday 2 October 2024

Livestreaming will be available - programme and all other details on: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/events/archaeologyevents/seminars/

Looking forward to tonight's Presidential lecture by Dr Kenny Brophy on The past, present & future of archaeological societies in Scotland. This will follow our AGM from 7:15pm onwards in Boyd Orr lecture room E. Or livestream: glasarchsoc.org/annual-lecture…

🎤New PhD studentship available!
A cultural and natural history of Scotland’s peatlands

A Collaborative PhD project based at the University of Glasgow, working closely with the University of Stirling and National Trust for Scotland (NTS)

🕓Application deadline: 13 May 2024

All details on:
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/research/archaeologyresearch/latestnews/headline_1064693_en.html