Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Where do Archaeologists take their holidays?
While a few behave like ordinary mortals and lie on the beach with a beer and the latest Tom Clancy others are generally found sweating at the bottom of a warm midden in the med or the tropics.
Having asked my contacts where they are going this year, here is an unscientific list of the top vacation destinations for Archaeologist types.
Labels: archaeology, holiday, vacation
Friday, May 15, 2009
Announcement- Windsor Archaeology
All enquiries to webmaster@newarchaeology.com
Labels: Windsor
Thursday, February 19, 2009
I like this one
Flint Napper Hero
http://www.b3ta.com/board/9198949
It made me laugh.
Labels: Flint Napper Hero, wii phil flintnapping
Monday, February 16, 2009
Not such a bunch of Neandertals after all
One thing that has been discovered from this research is that Humans and Neandertals shared a gene associated with speech in humans. This gives weight to the thoery that Neandertals could speak just like we can.
Labels: Neandertal
Sunday, January 11, 2009
frozen ground
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Hapy New Year
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
New Archaeology Book: The Great Archaeologists
Here is a great book by Paul Bahn that would make an archaeological stocking filler.
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Robinson Crusoe's camp discovered
Now, almost 300 years later his camp has been discovered and excavated. Notable finds include a pair of navigational dividers.
Labels: Aguas Buenas, Alexander Selkirk, camp, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Bring back bonekickers
"Use your archaeological imagination" was the cheesiest and wierdest line of the series. Hope someone digs up enough cash for series 2.
Labels: bonekickers
Monday, June 30, 2008
Messy Shed
The Windsor and Wraysbury Archaeology Society win the "Messy Shed of the Month award"From left to right:
Sorted finds jumbled in a heap, colour chart books left open in sunlight, broken wheelbarrow, bin bag full of plastic bags, sparrow's nest, broken metre drawing frames (x4) broken window (x1) red thing nobody has looked at since the 1980s, plastic container of 'round up' weedkiller and 500 flora margarine tubs (on floor).
The challenge is set! Can you do better? email your dig disaster photos to webmaster@newarchaeology.com
Paris in the springtime of humanity
Labels: Paris
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Flint dangers
I have cut my hands in over 20 places, some cuts almost deep enough to require stitches.
I also managed to slice a hole in my trousers. If I hadn't been wearing glasses I am sure I would have lost an eye when a timy lump of glass-like obsidian flew up and cut my face.
If all that wasn't enough I have just read in "Masters of Flint" by A J Forrest (1983) that many flint knappers died of a lung disease commonly known as ‘knapper’s rot’. This was caused by inhaling tiny shards of flint dust which got lodged in the lungs.
However, a few hours in the garden with a hammer stone and lump of chert probably wont kill you if you take the following precautions.
- Eye protection is an absolute must.
- A thick leather pad on the thigh if you are using your leg for stability
- a light face mask (probably optional if you are only planning to do this once a year or so)
What about the results. Well I am delighted. I really got to see how worked flint compares with natural breaks and feel a lot more confident about identification now.
Labels: chert, flint, flint knapping, obsidian
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Windsor Archaeology Dig
15th June 2008
call 01753 854595 for details
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Spain arrests 20 for treasure plunder - Yahoo! News
It seems a gang of metal detectorists have been stealing from archaeological sites throughout Spain, and selling their finds on the Internet. Hooray for the Spanish Police!
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
New Stonehenge dig starts
Labels: henge, Preseli, Salisbury Plain, stonehenge, wiltshire
Friday, March 28, 2008
Rain
let me dig a hole today
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Birkbeck Summer Schools 2008
For details contact the Executive Officer for Archaeology on 0207 6316627
Labels: archaeology, birckbeck, course
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Found a lovely website
Enjoy! http://www.thanetarch.co.uk/Virtual%20Museum/1_Virtual%20Museum%20Main%20Pages/Virtual_Museum_Home.html
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Roman Graves Discovered
Labels: graves Essex, roman, stanway
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Wraysbury talk
Labels: saxons, Windsor Museum, wraysbury
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
London Olympic site reveals past glories.
Roman and iron age finds have been unearthed on the Stratford site of the 2012 Olympic games.
The items including a roman coin will be passed to the Museum of London.
Labels: coin, iron age, olympic, roman
Monday, November 19, 2007
Jerusalem Archaeology
Labels: archaeology, israel, jerusalem, palestine
Monday, October 29, 2007
Windsor Berkshire Museum Collection Open Day
Saturday 3rd November
10.00am - 4.00pm
Free Entry- No need to book
Labels: open day, Windsor Museum
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Time Team is bad for your liver
Friday, September 07, 2007
When worlds collide
Monday, August 13, 2007
Seaside Heritage Conference : News & Events : Archaeology & Buildings : Research & Conservation : English Heritage
Dates 16-17th October 2007 , Hastings, East Sussex. Organised by English Heritage.
Friday, July 20, 2007
BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In Pictures: Viking treasure haul
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Swan Upping
Friday, July 13, 2007
Strike closes the Acropolis
The ancient Acropolis of Athens is a flat-topped rock which sits 150 m the city, covered with historic ruins, most noteably The Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the Goddess Athena, which dates from the 5th century BC.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
pipe stems
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
The Local - Archaeologists discover Iron Age Mickey Mouse
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
World's oldest adornments found - Yahoo! News UK
82,000 year old perforated Nassarius mollusc shells, some dyed with red ochre, have been discovered in caves in Morocco. This really destroys the old (and always unexplainable) idea of the paleolithic revolution (the idea that modern humans who had been around for bout 70,000 years before suddenly starting to behave like us only 30,00 years ago) and allows archaeologists to see homo sapian evolution as a progression over time, just as one would expect of a species.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Archaeology Blog
Friday, June 01, 2007
Here we go again
Friday, May 25, 2007
weed supressant fabric
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Museums to visit
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Britain's Largest Neolithic village discovered near Stonehenge
It is believed the inhabitants of what is the largest known neolithic settlement, built the stone circle at Stonehenge.
Labels: archaeology, britain, neolithic, stonehenge, wiltshire
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Maltese digging row continues
Monday, January 08, 2007
Pitfalls and Problems in Analysing and Interpreting the Seasonality of Faunal Remains
Nicky Milner of the University of Newcastle has written a fantastic paper on the
Pitfalls and Problems in Analysing and Interpreting the Seasonality of Faunal Remains
Quote
"This paper aims to highlight problems which arise in seasonality studies due to a lack of understanding by archaeologists of animal behaviour and biology, and from this, how erroneous archaeological interpretations are then formed. "
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/archive/00000885/01/milnern1.pdf
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Happy New Year
Happy New Year Everyone
Chris
Brown Bear Media - Web designers in Windsor, Berkshire
"Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences."
