Organization profile

Organisation profile

The Institute is unique within Scotland, in that it combines teaching, academic research, and commercial applied research and consultancy. The commercial arm of the institute, ORCA and ORCA Marine, provide professional archaeological and heritage services to Northern Scotland - providing everything from archaeological excavations and evaluations, through to heritage consultancy services, marine archaeological investigations and geophysical survey. This unique partnership sees the Institute’s academic staff working alongside the ORCA and ORCA Marine staff with regards to teaching and research, providing our students with an unparalleled experience of practical and applied archaeology, as well as facilitating world class archaeological research in both Northern Scotland and the wider world.

The Highlands and Islands has particularly rich and diverse archaeological heritage - from Neolithic stone-built settlements, tombs and stone circles, to Iron Age brochs, Pictish and Viking settlements and burials, historical archaeology such as the clearances to remains from the First and Second World Wars - situated in landscapes which are distinctive and often fragile.

However, although the Institute carries out internationally significant research within the Highlands and Islands region, we also work much farther afield – with current research projects ongoing in Easter Island, Nepal and Tanzania.

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Mesolithic Earth & Environmental Sciences

Bronze Age Earth & Environmental Sciences

archaeology Earth & Environmental Sciences

Medieval Earth & Environmental Sciences

flint Earth & Environmental Sciences

Orkney Arts & Humanities

excavation Earth & Environmental Sciences

Iron Age Earth & Environmental Sciences

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Profiles

Hugo Anderson-Whymark

hugo.anderson-whymark@uhi.ac.uk

Archaeology Institute - Visiting Scholar, Relief Lecturer

Person: Visiting Scholar, Academic Research Active

Nick Card

Nick.Card@uhi.ac.uk

Tourism Research Network
Archaeology Institute
Orkney College UHI - Senior Projects Manager Ness of Brodgar

Person: Academic Research Active

Martin Carruthers

martin.carruthers@orkney.uhi.ac.uk

Tourism Research Network
Archaeology Institute
Orkney College UHI - Lecturer in Archaeology

Person: Academic Research Active, Academic Related

Projects 2006 2022

2 Not started
4 Active
13 Finished

Northern Exposure: investigating the end of the Neolithic in the north

Richards, C., Downes, J., Gee, C. & Cummings, V.

11/08/17 → 30/09/22

Project: Research

The stone circles of Britain and Ireland

Richards, C.

1/08/17 → 15/08/20

Project: Research

YAARP: Yesnaby Art & Archaeology Research Project

Moore, J., Hammond, R. & Gibbon, S. J.

20/07/15 → …

Project: Research

Research Output 1999 2019

2 Downloads (Pure)

A combined chemical imaging approach using (MC) LA-ICP-MS and NIR-HSI to evaluate the diagenetic status of bone material for Sr isotope analysis

Retzmann, A., Blanz, M., Zitek, A., Irrgeher, J., Feldmann, J., Teschler-Nicola, M. & Prohaska, T., 31 Jan 2019, In : Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry. 411, 3, p. 565-580 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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Infrared imaging

Laser Therapy

Inductively coupled plasma

Laser ablation

Isotopes