Caroline Wickham-Jones


Caroline Wickham-Jones is Scottish archaeologist specialising in Stone Age Orkney. She was a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen until her retirement in 2015.

Education and career

Wickham-Jones studied archaeology at the University of Edinburgh and obtained a master's degree in heritage management from the University of Birmingham. From 2006 to 2015, she was lecturer in archaeology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research at Aberdeen, supported by the Leverhulme Trust, focused on the submerged landscape of Orkney around Scapa Flow. As a specialist on the Mesolithic, she has collaborated on the University of Aberdeen's 'Rising Tide' project and the University of the Highlands and Islands' 'Turning Back the Tide' project. She also helped establish the Mesolithic Room at the Tomb of the Eagles Museum on Orkney.
Wickham-Jones has also held a visiting research fellowship at the University of the Highlands and Islands and is currently an honorary research assistant at the University of Aberdeen. She is a trustee of the John Muir Trust, the Orkney Archaeological Trust, and Caithness Archaeological Trust; a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland; and a member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists.

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