WikiArc is project designed to create a series of simple, accessible reference articles covering the broad range of topics that fall within the discipline of archaeology. The site works by accepting members on application, who form a community of peers able to edit and amend articles, under the guidance of a small number of specialist [...]
Posts Tagged ‘archaeology’
Contributors wanted
Posted in web projects, tagged archaeology, web projects, wikiarc on October 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sir Mortimer Wheeler on public archaeology
Posted in books, outreach, tagged archaeology, books, outreach on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m currently reading Sir Mortimer Wheeler’s 1955 autobiography Still Digging: Interleaves from an Antiquary’s Notebook (mine is the 1956 reprint by Readers Union, so the page numbers might be a little off), which has been an enormously interesting read for a number of the great man’s insights into the condition of archaeology in the early [...]
Festival of British Archaeology
Posted in outreach, tagged archaeology, outreach on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just wanted to post a little note to publicise the fact that the Festival of British Archaeology 2009 is now running. The Festival is a fortnight-long series of events all around the country which involves local authorities, museums, community archaeology groups, archaeological contractors, and national bodies, especially the Council for British Archaeology.
Yesterday was Yeovil’s [...]
Open Access Archaeology Repository (or a start at least…)
Posted in links, productivity, tagged archaeology, Google, internet archaeology, links, Open Access, wikiarc on May 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Last month, I posted a call for links to open access archaeology journals, books and conference proceedings on the web for a new repository at WikiArc. Thanks to those of you who answered, we now have links to a fair number of resources, although I’m sure the list is very far from definitive so please [...]
Community engagement in California
Posted in outreach, sites, tagged archaeology, California, outreach on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I recently spent a few weeks in northern California, and while I was there encountered an example of an attempt at communicating the past that I thought deserved some note.
I’ve idly musing for a while now on how the historical activity on a development site can be communicated to the site’s future users (be they [...]
Iruña-Veleia revisited
Posted in sites, tagged archaeology, Basque, hoax, Spain on November 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Back in August, I was lucky enough to be taken on a guided tour of Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppida in El Pais Vasco, northern Spain. I posted some pictures and a very brief blurb about the site in this entry. One of the things I mentioned (although have since edited) was the claim that artefacts [...]
Iruña-Veleia
Posted in photography, sites, tagged archaeology, photography, Roman, sites, Spain on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Iruña-Veleia, a Roman oppidum in Alava, northern Spain:
Reconstruction features very heavily in the presentation of the site, for example this mosaic over a water tank:
The finds from the site include what is claimed to be the oldest representation of the crucifixion of Christ and the oldest known writings in the Basque language*.
In Late Antiquity, the [...]
