Connecting Local Communities with Local Archaeology
http://camunivmuseums.wordpress.com/2014/03/14/local-communities-local-archaeology/

Traditionally those who have visited the Keyser have been students from the Division of Archaeology, who make use of the Teaching Collection through practical handling classes, and visiting researchers. The latest project, Connecting Local Communities with Local Archaeology, aims to reach out to local interest-groups and provide them with the tools to create a session for their needs: identifying interesting material using the MAA’s public catalogue, scheduling an appointment, and designing an appropriate handling session for their group in collaboration with MAA staff.

To archaeologists, the HS2 high-speed rail scheme is "one huge trench across the country", an unprecedented 350-mile bonanza that promises to open up England's ancient backbone and shoulders for meticulous study in a way never before possible. To many historians, however, it is a colossal folly, an unwarranted assault on the nation's historic heartlands that will dislocate a wealth of precious links with the past. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/...nvironment an interesting way of looking at things?

fave quote,

Quote:Dr Heyworth acknowledges that the prospect of the unprecedented tidal wave of archaeological work which would arise from HS2 – against the clock, on a tight budget, and amid unprecedented cuts in funding in the heritage sector – would place a severe strain on the profession.

"There will be a shortage of skills and manpower. There's been a shrinkage in the number of professional archaeologists, and a loss of skills. And if suddenly we're getting a lot of new housing and building development, we're going to run out of archaeologists. We won't have the skills base we need to do a professional job.

"One solution may be to bring in archaeologists from other parts of the world, and certainly our colleagues across Europe are very well trained and experienced. There are some who would argue that you don't need that academic background... you don't necessarily have to have a great deal of experience of that as long as you are well supervised."

Mari, modern Tell Hariri, located in the Middle Euphrates region in Syria is one of the most famous sites in the Near East, and dates from the 3rd to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE. The excavations at the most important trench V.1, which was applied as a deep sounding to answer chronological questions, was interrupted by the recent conflict in Syria.

The processing of the excavation data for this trench was, due to the fact that it was unreachable, very difficult. The French team around Prof. Butterlin of the University of Paris (Sorbonne) decided to commission us with the realisation of the excavation data in 3D. The goal of this project was to find a user-friendly system with which the archaeologists were able to work at a later point. Furthermore, renderings of the 3D model needed to be used to explain the complicated stratigraphy to a scientific and a non-scientific audience.

Read on for this fab project and other visualisations from them http://blog.artefacts-berlin.de/?p=974



Google Sketch up anyone? ( Digital Digging has been using this as well. including this visualisation of Oswestry Hillfort phasing. ) and this could even be given as projects to kids!


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ADS is pleased to announce that the AHRC has released its Impact Report for 2012/13.

The report highlights ADS's economic and qualitative impact upon the archaeological community, particularly through the Grey Literature Library, along side ADS's contribution to the digital preservation sector.

As well as featuring the impact of the ADS, the report showcases a variety of other impact case studies and provides a useful overview of the different types of impact being generated by AHRC-funded projects.

The full report is available here: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Pu...%20(A).pdf

AHRC Press Release: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News-and-Events/Ne...-2013.aspx

Here is what can be achieved by students flying a KAP kit for the first time, without anyone on site having any previous experience of KAP:
http://www.armadale.org.uk/snaps.htm#primary

(Dunhill Castle and the Anne Valley with the 5th year students from Stella Maris Secondary School, Tramore, Co Waterford, Ireland)

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/abou...-heritage/

A consultation on the National Heritage Protection Plan gives everyone an opportunity to say what matters in the historic environment and what is in danger of being lost.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1685

Seemed very apt, given recent discussions:

In an astonishingly generous offer of forgiveness to a thief who swiped items including an iPad, pottery and a replica body from a van at a roadshow, one of the country’s leading archaeology companies has invited their light-fingered pilferer to embark on a two-week apprenticeship.

Liverpool-based experts Big Heritage, whose recent projects have included investigations at Stonehenge based on the unwitting discoveries of rabbits, reasoned that the robber, who prised kit from a vehicle at the Community Superstar Awards in Anfield, must have a “pretty crap” life.

“Return what you can to us, and come work for us for two weeks as an archaeologist,” wrote Dean Paton, the Managing Director, appealing to supporters to share the post on the group’s Facebook page.

“Understand the importance of the history of where you live, the skills we use to learn about the past and the way to get from the crap circumstances you are in to a better place.

“We'll cover your travel costs and you can keep the iPad if you want.

“We'll support you to find a training and education provider and you'll understand why a few crap bits of pottery from the bag you half-inched are worth more than 10 iPads.”

Possible one of finest :face-angel:

Headhunting and amphitheatre combat in Roman London, England: new evidence from the Walbrook Valley

it's out! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/art...0313004433

for those that can. for those that can't. have to wait.