Sally M. Foster is a Scottish

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling. She specialises in the archaeology of Scotland, particularly the Picts and their neighbours in the early medieval period.

Education and career

Foster studied at University College London and graduated in 1984 with a degree in medieval archaeology. She completed her doctoral studies under Leslie Alcock at the University of Glasgow. She was awarded her PhD in 1990 with a thesis entitled ''Aspects of the Later Atlantic Iron Age''. She then worked in the

cultural heritage Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by soci ...

sector, as an inspector for the

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) was an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government that was "sponsored" inanced and with oversightthrough Historic Scotland, an executive ...

and subsequently Historic Scotland. Returning to academic archaeology in 2010, she was first appointed a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and moved to the University of Stirling in 2014. Foster chairs the National Committee on Carved Stones in Scotland and is a trustee of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Kilmartin Glen Museum Company. She has previously served as the secretary of the Medieval Europe Research Community and an honorary editor of the '' International Journal of Medieval Archaeology''. She is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a member of the

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, the Association of Critical Heritage Studies and the

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. She is also a director of the

Tarbat Discovery Centre Portmahomack ( gd, Port Mo Chalmaig; 'Haven of My .e. 'Saint'Colmóc') is a small fishing village in Easter Ross, Scotland. It is situated in the Tarbat Peninsula in the parish of Tarbat. Tarbat Ness Lighthouse is about from the village at t ...

Selected publications

* Foster, Sally M (ed) 1998 ''The St Andrews Sarcophagus: a Pictish Masterpiece and its International Connections'' Dublin Fours Courts Press DA 777.3 *Foster, Sally M (2006) ''Maeshowe and the Heart of Neolithic Orkney'' Edinburgh: Historic Scotland. *Foster, Sally M (ed. 2014) Picts, Gaels and Scots. Early Historic Scotland, 3rd edition. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd. (2004 edition published by Batsford)

References

External links

Academia.edu pageFuture Thinking on Carved Stones: A Research Framework
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