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28th August 2009, 07:37 AM
Just a quick heads up that today's Guardian G2 supplement has a 15 page archaeology special - Diging Up Britain. Havent had a chance to read through it yet but it seems to cover quite a few aspects - the current commercial situation, community digs, features on various sites, etc.
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28th August 2009, 08:28 AM
yurk..... on my way to the postbox now!
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28th August 2009, 09:14 AM
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28th August 2009, 09:36 AM
Read through it... what was interesting was the omissions .. no mention of BAJR or Past Horizons Volunteer Opportunities and of course the new guide (that the CBA demanded should contain links to their content)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17523160/How-T...rchaeology
For an issue about getting involved in archaeology .. a good link :face-smart:
It was an interesting read, but did seem to miss the next step of actually how to get involved and how to get started and what to expect. I did notice a noted BAJRite in there though!
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28th August 2009, 01:21 PM
Other omissions that I find odd were the YAT Hungate / Archaeology Live.
http://www.jorvik-viking-centre.co.uk/hu...-live1.htm
oh and what about
Scottish Archaeology Month
http://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/in...?q=node/33
(after all it starts next week)
and what about
Thames Discovery Programme
http://www.thamesdiscovery.org/
All big, all happening right now, and all huge opportunities to allow people to get involved.
Shurely Shome Mishtake.... or shomshing a little more sinister }
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28th August 2009, 02:23 PM
I liked Geoffery Wainwrights suggestion that now would be a good time for archaeologists to do something with their accumulated backlogs, but rather suspect that there isn't a great deal of funding available to make more than a pin-scratch on the surface of that particular spoilheap.
It is however maybe an intitative that the IfA could pick up on with their intern scheme and offer opportunities for archaeologists to get experience of post-ex work by working on backlog projects. Maybe incorporating a scheme where surviving units take over the post-ex (and post-ex funding) of units that have gone under....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...
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28th August 2009, 03:43 PM
I love the Beginner's Guide bit: perfectly perfect chronological strat, hardly any truncation, no robber trenches and a Neanderthal handaxe complete with preserved haft...:p
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28th August 2009, 10:10 PM
I got two of those...
and the fill of the 16th century brick structure is wrong!
Pedants that we are..
The question is of course, what was it about??:face-confused:
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29th August 2009, 10:11 AM
It's all go in the Guardian. Now, they have a full page on volunteering in Spain in the Saturday travel section. Tempting their readers with the intro "Join archaeologists in Spain, and you'll find the vests tighter, the tans deeper, and beers more plentiful than on any Time Team excavation".
Is this how archaeology should be sold to the volunteer and will they be disappointed as a result when they get there? Certainly, on the Ukraine dig that Past Horizons covered in an earlier issue, the photographs showed women wearing bikinis and men stripped to the waist.
