I received a message from an undergraduate Anthropology major at the University of Rhode Island who is conducting a brief survey of people’s attitudes to the sale of antiquities and eBay, asking if I could post a link. So here’s the link
The sale of antiquities is an incredibly important and emotive issue (in fact, [...]
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eBay and Antiquities survey
Posted in Uncategorized on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Call for links
Posted in Uncategorized on March 18, 2009 | 4 Comments »
WikiArc is looking to build a directory of links to open access journals, books and conference proceedings of possible interest to archaeologists. Please e-mail links [AT] wikiarc [DOT] org if you have any suggestions. The list so far can be found here.
Fauna in field drains
Posted in ecology, tagged ecology, fauna, nature on March 5, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Being an archaeologist is a handy thing if, like me, you’re fascinated by nature, as we tend to spend a lot of our time in very close proximity to the ground and so get to see some very specific ecosystems. Recently, I have been excavating a large cut feature on a very wet, poorly drained, [...]
A Google Toy a Day: Google Sets
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Google, internet on January 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is another Google feature I discovered while reading Googlepedia by Michael Miller. Google Sets, currently a test feature from Google labs – although by no means a new feature, allows you to ‘create sets of items from a few examples’, providing a list of results which then link to the Google search results for [...]
More Snails from Henlade
Posted in snails, tagged Somerset on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this post, I discussed some snail shells I had recovered from a site I was excavating at Henlade in Somerset. The shells aren’t part of the excavation archive, as they don’t come from known archaeological contexts, rather they are more modern, and collected purely for my curiosity.
This time I concentrated on some very patchy [...]
WikiArc Annual Report 2008
Posted in Uncategorized on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve produced an exceptionally brief annual report for the WikiArc project. 2008 was the project’s first year, and can best be characterised by slow – but steady – growth. Most importantly, there is a framework of rules in place, and a dedicated management team. We’re aiming high in 2009.
Download a copy of the report (pdf, [...]
WikiArc UK Field Archaeologist Survey, Dec 2008 – Jan 2009
Posted in web projects, tagged commercial archaeology, survey, wikiarc on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We thought it would be interesting to find out a little bit about the people who work as field archaeologists in the commercial sector in the UK. If you work, or have worked in the last six months, as part of the fieldwork team (perhaps as an excavator, supervisor or surveyor) on commercial archaeological projects [...]
