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Archaeology at Edinburgh has a long and distinguished history; V. Gordon
Childe and Stuart Piggott formerly headed the department, one of the oldest in
the UK.
The building now occupied by Archaeology is the former Royal High School dating
from 1777, whose pupils included Sir Walter Scott. Located in the heart of the
city, it was recently refurbished and now provides greatly enhanced teaching,
workshop and research space, including environmental and computer laboratories,
a graphics studio, an extensive reference collection of European and Near Eastern archaeological material, as well as animal and fish bone reference
collections, and a site library.
Archaeology has a friendly and lively research atmosphere; there are weekly
programmes of research seminars, lectures, and a student Archaeology
Society that organizes lectures, field trips and social events.
The City of Edinburgh is home to many
professional archaeologists based in fellow institutions, including: the National
Museums of Scotland (also the headquarters of the Society
of Antiquaries of Scotland), with their award-winning new galleries and
extensive archaeological collections; the Royal
Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland; Historic
Scotland; as well as several independent Archaeological
Units, active in field archaeology and consultancy.
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