PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge

Celebrating Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology on the edge of North-West Europe, remembering CWJ. Home of the PALaEoScot project.

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

An AMAZING Discovery Day at Aberdeen as part of #explorathon #techfest and #archaeologymonth - we had more than 1000 visitors to our #PALaEoScot Stone Age camp and Arts+Animals space. Food, flint knapping, finger paints and fearsome beasts! Check out this 🧵 ⬇️

[Archaeology at UoA @UoA_Archaeology]

We’ve extended the deadline for our new zooarch technician post in light of confusion over the length of the role. It’s a grade 5 post with funding secure until at least March 2031 - new closing date June 1st! https://t.co/113HAATRx7

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Come hop on board our Ark of the North and join the team here in Aberdeen! We are now seeking a full-time technical specialist in zooarchaeological analysis - apply now!

[Archaeology at UoA @UoA_Archaeology]

Come join our team as our new Zooarchaeology research technician! Closing date: 25/5/2026 https://t.co/7w84Vwq9bN

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Huge thank you to Tullynessle Deer Farm for a wonderful and informative day out and for these lovely antlers too. We are looking forward to doing some experimental archaeology with these! @farm_deer57842 #iceage #palaeolithic #mesolithic #scotland 🦌

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Some cracking little lithics today and plenty of shells as we opened up our first tests and cleaned down to the HUGE intact midden - what will tomorrow bring?!👀

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

@Stoviesplz @WhatKatieDigs @northernpicts A great place to set up camp!

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Manny is ready to break ground! Team PALaEoScot are up in Moray for the next couple of weeks digging at Meft - an exciting new Mesolithic midden site!

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Looking forward to what we can learn about Mesolithic life in north-east Scotland from the new Meft site!

[Alicia Sanz Royo @aliciasanzroyo]

Good morning!
@PrehistoricEdge 🪏🪨🐚🦴

[Kate Britton @WhatKatieDigs]

Amazing to be a part of this! It’s rare to encounter an archaeological emergancy but this really was one - truly a once in a lifetime site! https://t.co/hkwfXj3UQZ

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

PALaEoScot is in Orkney this week working with Dr Ben Elliott sampling bone from early Mesolithic site, Tarradale. Project PhD student Tayla Sanders is looking at mammalian faunal biodiversity in Scotland at the end of the Ice Age and during the Mesolithic - watch this space!

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

We cannot wait to have you in Aberdeen full time Alicia!

[Alicia Sanz Royo @aliciasanzroyo]

After 1️⃣ year at @NtlMuseumsScot it's time for well-deserved holidays! 🎉 Thanks to Andrew Kitchener and Zena Timmons for access to an impressive reference collection 🦴😍
2026: ready to work in Aberdeen with @PrehistoricEdge! 😎 Meanwhile, enjoy your Christmas holidays! 💫🥂🎄

[Kate Britton @WhatKatieDigs]

New paper alert! Sulfur isotopes evidence Pleistocene faunal spatial ecology - 100s of data points, years of combined research effort, and an isotope-zooarch-zooms collab. Congrats to @Sarah_Barakat_ who led this to fruition!
@UKRI_News @LeverhulmeTrust https://t.co/igRlaf7p7W

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

From archaeological enigmas to a bank job, team PALaEoScot aced The Heist Escape Room at our Christmas party - top of the leader board too! Happy Holidays everyone! 🦌 🦣 🧊 🎄

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

In Edinburgh this week meeting specialists at NMS with our Edinburgh-based project zooarchaeology post-doc @aliciasanzroyo We’ll the spend week exploring the wonderful animal remains of the Assynt bone caves - kicking the day off with breakfast at an aptly-named cafe!

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Come study with us in Aberdeen! Fully-funded PhD opportunity in isotope palaeoecology, open to U.K. and international students. Deadline: 14th January 2026. 🦛 🐺 🐴 🦌

[Kate Britton @WhatKatieDigs]

Hippos?! In Devon?! Check out this fully-funded PhD opportunity @UoA_Archaeology focused on the isotope ecology of the non-analogue faunal communities of MIS5e Britain @NERCscience @BBSRC funded via QUARTILES - open to U.K. & international applicants! 🦛 https://t.co/C1ATD9QpDi

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

PALaEoScot is at the British Cave Research Association Science Symposium in Bristol today, spreading the word about the amazing MIS3/MIS2 faunas of Reindeer Cave, Assynt - great line up too! #archaeology #caving #pleistocene

[University of Aberdeen @aberdeenuni]

We're 1st in the UK for Archaeology & Forensic Science in the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026! We're also in the UK Top 10 in a further six subjects and remain in the overall Top 25 of UK universities for the fifth year in a row! 🤩

[ESHE @ESHE_society]

The #ESHE2025 meeting in Paris starts tomorrow (please use this hasthag!). If you are interested in the program, you find it here https://t.co/oAVXsp0m7v - Members have received an email for accessing the live stream! We hope you all enjoy the conference in person or online. /MW

[Prehistoric Wirral @StoneAgeWirral]

🍂Happy #AutumnEquinox! 🌍
The changing of the seasons. Autumn is definitely here on Bidston Hill, Wirral.🌰🥮🍁🍂💚
#beauty #nature #outdoors #Autumn

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

Kate here. Lately I’ve been doing a little experimental arch/living prehistory - I really got into it and learned a lot. I have been thinking so much about Caroline along the way and her approach to archaeology - doing/showing/sharing is such a wonderful way of learning ❤️

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

We even had a quick moment before kick off to raise an anchronistic YumYum together! Thank you to the whole team for all the effort they put into making Sunday happen, on the day itself and also the weeks leading up to it ❤️

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

An AMAZING Discovery Day at Aberdeen as part of #explorathon #techfest and #archaeologymonth - we had more than 1000 visitors to our #PALaEoScot Stone Age camp and Arts+Animals space. Food, flint knapping, finger paints and fearsome beasts! Check out this 🧵 ⬇️

[PALaEoScot - Prehistory on the Edge @PrehistoricEdge]

We also had guests Tracey and Matthew from Mid Grampian Mesolithic talk visitors through some of the great sites that are on our doorstep here in beautiful north-east Scotland - with a little surprise visit from MesoDeeside’s Sandra too!