Ancient Biomolecules at the University of Aberdeen

25/11/2025

A new paper from the Ancient Biomolecules team in Aberdeen 🕵️‍♂️

Dogs were domesticated at least once from a yet-unidentified wolf population at least ~15,000 y ago. However, how domestication took place is a top...

27/10/2025

A new paper on Middle Pleistocene fauna led by members of our department, including an MSc student who completed our MSc Bioarchaeological Science programme in the 2023-2024 academic year: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X25004894?fbclid=IwY2xjawNsZ0pleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHolHyvi9sRP_u3vkjpkEgHPGWBUVS0JhK2vzvYvGtsacikfkwLezi1uAMjZe_aem_wfKxQb8U7IWUd62POurTEA

24/10/2025

Congratulations Elisabeth, an amazing recognition!

University of Aberdeen lecturer Dr Elisabeth Niklasson has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize in recognition of her pioneering work on archaeology and political polarisation, heritage policy and governance, and archaeological funding mechanisms.

16/06/2025

Applicable to all our programmes!

We're offering the Aberdeen Global Scholarships for self-funded international postgraduate students on campus beginning their journey with us in September 2025! This is your chance to experience Aberdeen student life and make lifelong connections - http://abdn.io/1tV

12/05/2025

04/03/2025

Interested in biomolecular archaeology? Check out the two MSc programmes we offer at Aberdeen. These come with a tuition fee waiver of £8,000 for international students for the September 2025 intake.

03/03/2025

Join our department on a funded PhD project:

PhD Project - Finding Scotland’s Lost Ice Age Animals: extending the Late Pleistocene-early Holocene palaeontological record using biomolecular approaches at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com

28/02/2025

Some new and exciting research in our department!

People living in Scotland 400 hundred years apart have been shown to suffer similar seasonal declines in their vitamin D levels over winter, despite the enormous changes in lifestyle and diet.

Archaeologists and nutrition scientists from the University of Aberdeen have teamed up with researchers from Ireland’s Atlantic Technological University and Boise State University (USA) to examine the long-term impact of living in a region with low levels of winter sunlight: http://abdn.io/24047g

20/02/2025

Thinking about a masters at uoa? Come along to hear more about the PGT degrees in the School of Geoscience! We’ll be there to chat about ArchSoc; come and say hello!

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