Daniel H. J. Lee

University of the Highlands and Islands | UHI · Archaeology Institute, Orkney College

Thirty years after the discovery of an Early Neolithic timber hall at Balbridie in Scotland was reported in Antiquity, new analysis of the site's archaeobotanical assemblage, featuring 20 000 cereal grains preserved when the building burnt down in the early fourth millennium BC, provide new insights into early farming practices. The results of stab...

This chapter charts new ideas and practice for experimental mapping in archaeology. The first few sections unpack the histories of ‘experimental’ and ‘mapping’ in the discipline and suggest that in some ways archaeologists still think through the Cartesian grid when it comes to maps. It is argued that one of the main reasons archaeologists have fai...

FLOW COUNTRY is a collaboratively written piece of fictocritisism by artist Jasper Coppes and archaeologist Daniel Lee. It is designed by My Bookcase and published by Publication Studio Glasgow & My Bookcase. Based on their earlier cinematographic ventures into a contested site in the far North of Scotland, the book is a reconnaissance of real and...

This forum aims to go beyond the usual art/archaeology discussions to explore the possibilities – and challenges - for work which might push beyond what is traditionally accepted as either art or archaeology. The articles comprise a diverse range of responses from academics and practitioners working creatively with heritage—in its broadest sense—fr...

This article proposes a new theoretical approach to understanding postmedieval landscapes in Orkney, Scotland. Although this period has received considerable attention from economic and political historians and from ethnologists, these approaches have not adequately represented the worldviews and cosmologies of local historical communities. A more...

Our intention is to take you on a journey, or rather a walk, through some recent collaborations and projects. The journey is also a real walk undertaken on the 7 th February 2015, revisiting the places of these earlier encounters. We are both archaeologists living in Orkney interested in creative and experimental archaeological practice. This is pe...