15th February 2015, 01:57 PM
REALLY REALLY amazing project started by and completely run by students-
The Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project
Hannah McGlynn by Katy Bell
The Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project is a non-profit, free community archaeology group run by students of the University of Edinburgh. Our primary function is to enable children to have the opportunity to engage in a field that they perhaps feel they can’t get involved in. We are not the only project to tackle this; we are in fact only a drop in the ocean when it comes to archaeological outreach. There are programs being run throughout Britain doing fantastic things to build upon community archaeology. To name but a few there is the Young Archaeologist’s Club in York who are creating aerial maps of archaeologically significant landmarks in a way that they are accessible to those who are partially sighted. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are running Dig It! 2015 in which they are promoting and running a host of nationwide events and talks as well as promoting projects, of which EAOP is one, and the majority are catered towards children. These are just a small handful of the pretty cool outreach and community work being done. This of course then highlights the question of where in amongst all this is the need for the Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project? Why are we here? What makes us different? To answer these questions an important number should be remembered, that number is 220,000.
[video=youtube;IPAx0yhtBnU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAx0yhtBnU[/video]
The Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project
Hannah McGlynn by Katy Bell
The Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project is a non-profit, free community archaeology group run by students of the University of Edinburgh. Our primary function is to enable children to have the opportunity to engage in a field that they perhaps feel they can’t get involved in. We are not the only project to tackle this; we are in fact only a drop in the ocean when it comes to archaeological outreach. There are programs being run throughout Britain doing fantastic things to build upon community archaeology. To name but a few there is the Young Archaeologist’s Club in York who are creating aerial maps of archaeologically significant landmarks in a way that they are accessible to those who are partially sighted. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland are running Dig It! 2015 in which they are promoting and running a host of nationwide events and talks as well as promoting projects, of which EAOP is one, and the majority are catered towards children. These are just a small handful of the pretty cool outreach and community work being done. This of course then highlights the question of where in amongst all this is the need for the Edinburgh Archaeology Outreach Project? Why are we here? What makes us different? To answer these questions an important number should be remembered, that number is 220,000.
[video=youtube;IPAx0yhtBnU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPAx0yhtBnU[/video]