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 work will focus on water use and around the abbey. We will have trenches to explore a…
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 to UK Research and Innovation for their generous support of “Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work”! Exciting things to come,…
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 contribute to several ongoing and new research projects under the umbrella of the CATH — including the St Leonards North Shields project…
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 Centre for Archaeology, Technology, and History, and Lindores Abbey Distillery. This innovative collaboration at the intersection of History, Archaeology, Heritage,…
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 through the fence at Perth Whitefriars).” 28 June at 1-2pm in the Old Class Library in St John’s House.
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 Anita is off to Israel to accept her prize this weekend. Congratulations, Anita! Check out this video from the…
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 one thing we will definitely NOT be taking up in the St Andrews lab! Stable isotope analysis offers a fascinating window on human diet and…