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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘outreach’
Sir Mortimer Wheeler on public archaeology
Posted in books, outreach, tagged archaeology, books, outreach on August 30, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thames Discovery Programme
Posted in links, outreach, web projects, tagged internet archaeology, links, London, outreach on November 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“When the tide is out, the Thames is the longest open – air archaeological site in London, and much of the foreshore is freely accessible to the public. However, many of the exposed archaeological sites are often unrecognised and unprotected, and almost all are vulnerable to the twice – daily scouring of the tidal river, [...]
Prescot Street Award
Posted in links, outreach, web projects, tagged internet archaeology, London, outreach, web projects on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Picture, taken by Sarah Hill, of evaluation by L-P: Archaeology at Prescot Street, early 2006. Clockwise from behind the total station are Stuart Eve, Andrew Dufton, Brenna Hassett, Matthew Law and Francesca Lerza)
Congratulations to L-P: Archaeology, whose Prescot Street excavation website has won the first ever BAJR Web Award.
L-P perfectly demonstrate through this site that [...]
