As part of my PhD research I'm conducting a new player study! 🕹 Play an archaeology game and give us your interpretations ✅ Open to everyone over the age of 16 🕒 Only takes 10 minutes Take part: 📎 forms.gle/RELGS7Pm7Kpr... (Game playable in browser)
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Literally dancing with joy, can't believe it!!!
AE's first fieldwork project, Dig The Castle, has won Community Archaeology Project of the Year! It has been a privilege to work with the people of Great Torrington and this is very much a shared success! A massive thank you to all volunteers and sponsors! 🏺 www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/cel...
Huge news! My buddies in Archaeologists Engage just won Archaeology Project of the Year for the Dig the Castle project! 🏰🩷 And I get to join the fun in Torrington in August! 🏺 www.archaeologyuk.org/resource/cel...
Glad to see that one of CIfA's new key advocacy goals is to promote archaeological apprenticeships, but without also having a key goal to promote improved working conditions and staff retention this is putting masking tape on a leaky bucket. #CIfA#archaeology#ukelection 🏺
We are over the moon to have been nominated in not one but two categories for the Dig The Castle project! It's a bit surreal! Well done to all the nominees though, there are some phenomenal people and projects involved and this is great exposure for us all :)
Our community dig in Great Torrington, Devon, has been shortlisted for the Council for British Archaeology Community Archaeology Project of the Year and project lead Emily Wapshott is also in the running for Community Archaeologist of the Year! 🏺#archaeology www.archaeologyuk.org/what-we-do/a...
Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference is in Bournemouth this year. Call for sessions closes on 5th July! tag2024.wordpress.com
Evolution?
Ceann don dialann: Saolta Bhríde. Comhdháil ar shaol agus ré Naomh Bríd agus ar a hEaglais i gCill Dara ón 5ú haois go dtí an 9ú haois. Ollscoil Mhá Nuad 13-14 Meán Fómhair 2024 Socraithe ag @niamhwycherley.bsky.social@maynoothuni.bsky.social
