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St Andrews Monastic Archaeology Field School Opens First Excavation Season at Lindores Abbey
Follow our first season of digging at Lindores Abbey, a monastery with connections to the Abbey of Tiron in France. Lindores was one of four monastic communities in Scotland with roots at Tiron. Our first year of field…
St Andrews Research Team Awarded £1.5M Research Grant
Thrilled to announce that St Andrews-based #TeamNun has been awarded an AHRC Standard Research Grant for a five-year study of medieval religious women combining historical research and archaeological science! Thank you…
Curran and Hall named Honorary Research Fellows at St Andrews
Derek Hall and Kimm Curran have been named Honorary Research Associates, affiliated with the St Andrews School of History and housed in the Centre for Archaeology, Technology, and History. Kimm and Derek will…
St Andrews – Lindores Field School Partnership in June 2024
The 2024 Global St Andrews summer learning course on the History and Archaeology of Monastic Scotland will be the opening season of an ongoing partnership between the St Andrews School of History, The Saint Andrews…
‘but mum there’s a man digging up dinosaur bones’ – CATH lecture by Derek Hall on 28 June!
Join the St Andrews Centre for Archaeology, Technology, and History for a lecture by archaeologist Derek Hall: “Burial Archaeology – ‘but mum there’s a man digging up dinosaur bones’ (said by a small boy looking…
Anita Radini wins 2023 Dan David Prize!
Three cheers for #TeamNun founding sister Dr. Anita Radini — Recipient of a 2023 Dan David Prize for her pioneering work on the analysis of the micro-debris entrapped in human dental calculus! The fabulous and amazing…
#TeamNun on the Road in Germany!
Alison visited the Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS) Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie this week to meet micro-bioarchaeologist Alice Toso and learn the basics of stable isotope analysis! This is…