2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the Centre for Applied Archaeology at the University of Salford. To celebrate this landmark I’ll be looking back at some of our key sites over the next 12 months. As an early treat I’m making freely available a pdf of our ‘Archaeology for All’ community volume which we published…
In many an archaeologist’s stocking this Christmas there will either have been a drone or one of those fancy pieces of image software that turns your digital photographs into 3D images you can manipulate. Both the Castle Studies Trust and MOLA have posted excellent blogs this year on the benefits and results of using both. However, in my buildings archaeologist/landscape archaeologist mode…
Archaeology is about the study of the physical remains of the past, and archaeologists can, sometimes, get fixated on the smallest objects and details, whether these be from prehistory or the ‘contemporary past’. So here’s a seasonal story of the hunt for a ritual object; and of course these events are based upon surviving artefactual…
The rise of electronic publication is one of the more striking cultural shifts of the last decade. Supported by better quality screens and new personal data-devices such as smart phones, tablets, and e-book readers it is now normal to see commuters on trams, trains, and buses with their noses in the latest fiction e-book. Most…
Hunting for historical figures using archaeology, whether it the key actors from the Bible or the footsteps of a Roman general, has a very long, but not always honourable, pedigree. I myself have taken part in fieldwork hunting for the campaign forts and temporary camps of the Roman Governor Gnaeus Julius Agricola (b. 40AD d.…
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