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Starts: 19:30
Ends: 21:00
Part of Highland Archaeology Festival of Online Talks organised by the Highland Council Historic Environment Team
Talks by Mark Thacker (U. of Stirling) on 'The ecology and chronology of a medieval Highland Castle: SMCCCP investigations at Castle Roy' and Kate Britton and Orsolya Czere (U. of Aberdeen) on ‘Old digs, new tricks: reconstructing Pictish lives through the chemical and biomolecular analysis of skeletal remains’. Bookings via Eventbrite (link).
Online talk organised by Highland Council Historic Environment Team
Highland Council Historic Environment Team.
Phone 077888 35466
Email highlandarchaeologyfestival@gmail.com
www.highlandarchaeologyfestival.org
Further details:
'The ecology and chronology of a medieval Highland Castle: SMCCCP investigations at Castle Roy'
Talk by Mark Thacker. This presentation will discuss recent work undertaken at Castle Roy under the aegis of the Scottish Medieval Castles & Chapels C14 Project (SMCCCP). I will summarise how analysis of mortar materials surviving in the upstanding structure and wider landscape has allowed us to present the first independent dating evidence relating to construction of this important building and provided a valuable way in to understanding the history and ecology of the wider region.
Dr Mark Thacker is a buildings archaeologist living in the Isle of Lewis. Mark's research interests are focussed on the medieval and later buildings of northern Europe.
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'Old digs, new tricks: reconstructing Pictish lives through the chemical and biomolecular analysis of skeletal remains'
Using examples from the Highlands and across Scotland, archaeological scientists Kate Britton and Orsolya Czére will explore recent isotopic and genetic research undertaken on early medieval human remains at the Univers
ity of Aberdeen, illuminating Pictish diet, mobility and society
Dr Kate Britton is Reader in Archaeological Science at the University of Aberdeen, and Head of the Department of Archaeology. A specialist in stable isotope analysis, her research focused on the reconstruction of the diets and movement habits of past people.
Dr Orsolya Czére is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, Department of Archaeology. Orsolya’s research focuses on early and high medieval diet in Scotland using isotopic approaches, and the relationships between dietary and religious, social and cultural changes.
