New series of Time Team on Channel 4 (UK) starts in half an hour.
Happy New Year


- posted by Chris @ 1/4/2004 05:00:08 PM

 
I am considering buying a new car over the holidays. I want to go for the archaeologists favourite, the Land Rover (as modelled by the lovely Julian Richards), but Nicola points out that most of my life will be spent in an M4 motorway traffic jam so something comfy with a CD player is more sensible.

If I wanted to be sensible I would never have studied archaeology would I?
- posted by Chris @ 12/11/2003 01:51:18 PM

 
An Iron Age chariot from about 500 BC has been discovered by engineers working on the new A1 motorway in West Yorkshire according to
BBC NEWS. The information this site provides, together with chariots found in recent years at Newbridge near Edinburgh and Wetwang should hopefully do much to shed light on this Iron Age burial practice.
- posted by Chris @ 12/3/2003 08:25:42 AM

 
Despite what my taxi driver keeps trying to tell me,the pyramids at Giza are old, but not that old. Why on earth do so many people have an opinion on this?

One friend recently explained that overturning 'establishment' views of the nature of anything whatsoever is a powerful motivator for people who are upset with modern life (IE most of us - and so it has always been for every generation since the first old git complained that things were much better before they discovered fire).

The beliefs of the age are intertwined with the realities of the age. If we are dissaffected from the realities, we naturally have problems with the beliefs.

So, trying to convince me that Sphinxy was built by Atlanteans is a gentle warping of a healthy natural trait and my taxi driver isn't mad after all.
- posted by Chris @ 11/20/2003 01:44:10 PM

 
BBC radio this morning introduced the great Paul Bahn as "author of The Bluffer's Guide to Archaeology".

I like the idea that one of our preeminent archaeologists tells people that the bluffers guide is his most famous work.


- posted by Chris @ 11/13/2003 05:03:34 PM

 
Ah, the vanity of us Brits!.. or us Romans or us Celts or us Early Saxons? Whoever we are, we still smear shite on our faces, but these days the pots have a french name and cost a bit more than half a denari.
ABCNEWS.com : Ancient Women Used Dung, Grease as Makeup
- posted by Chris @ 11/6/2003 05:51:45 PM

 
The Council for British Archaeology have updated their "Educational resources for archaeology" guide for teachers.
- posted by Chris @ 11/6/2003 05:45:45 PM

 
Found a lovely PDF for anyone who might want to know about deck Construction of the Mary Rose, the only Tudor warship that the average visitor can come an see.
- posted by Chris @ 11/6/2003 05:35:39 PM

 
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Iceman mystery solved

Seems Otzi is an Italian. The Iceman has graphically shown just how much detail can be gleaned using isotope analysis. Despite the silly rows that accompanied news of his discovery, the man in the ice is turning into one of the classic finds of the entire twentieth century.

Read more...
- posted by Chris @ 11/3/2003 01:46:54 PM

 
Nicola hated the new typeface for the logo so I have gone back to the old favourite.

Everyone's a bloody critic these days.
- posted by Chris @ 10/29/2003 08:00:59 PM