British Brick Society - Home Page Promotes the study and recording of the archaeology and history of bricks, brickmaking and brickwork. Activities, membership application form. http://www.britishbricksoc.free-online.co.uk/
Extractions: THE BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY If your interests in Local History, Architectural History, Industrial History or Family History has any connection with brick then you may be interested in ....... THE BRITISH BRICK SOCIETY The Society, founded in 1972, promotes the study and recording of all aspects of the archaeology and history of bricks, brickmaking and brickwork. Members are drawn from many backgrounds - geologists, archaeologists, schoolteachers, artists, historians, brickmakers, bricklayers, architects, engineers, etc. Some have a professional interest in a particular aspect of the subject, for others membership is an extension of a general interest or hobby. All share a fascination for the history and development of the manufacture and use of bricks. There are currently about 300 members in the United Kingdom with overseas members in, for example: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Switzerland and the United States of America. The Society's newsletter, "INFORMATION", mailed to members three times each year, features articles and reports of interest to members with accounts of Society, and member activities. Regular visits are organized to buildings, towns, archaeological sites and brickworks. One such visit is organised in conjunction with the June Annual General Meeting.
RAI_2003 49th International Congress of Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology. To be held in London on 711 July 2003 at the british Museum. http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/rencontre/RAI_2003.html
Extractions: On the occasion of the British Museum's 250th anniversary the London Centre for the Ancient Near East, acting for the British Museum and colleges of the University of London, takes pleasure in inviting scholars to convene for RAI 49 at the British Museum in London on 7-11 July 2003. The Rencontre will be meeting in London (and indeed in Britain) for the first time in twenty-one years. The theme will be Nineveh. Alongside the papers on the main theme we anticipate other presentations. Room will also be found for workshops, sectional meetings and poster presentations. CONGRESS PHOTO Rencontre programme Final Report First circular ... pdf-version ) (December 2) Download payment form Second circular pdf-version ) (February 5) Accommodation Third circular pdf-version ) (May 21) Bloomsbury map Registered participants Physical Features Project The London Centre for the Ancient Near East Andrew George
BBC - History - Marine Archeology Learn about marine archaeology from the waters around the british Isles with maps and an interactive quiz. http://db.bbc.co.uk/history/archaeology/marine/further_1.shtml
Extractions: If you are interested in becoming involved with marine archaeology, then the Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) offers divers a chance to become involved with wreck investigation. The wrecks of two protected 17th Century warships in the Sound of Mull - the Swan and the Dartmouth - can be visited by divers by arrangement with the NAS Training Officer at the Lochaline Diving Centre in Scotland. The NAS runs a variety of practical courses ranging from a basic introduction to nautical archaeology to the skills of surveying, drawing, and taking photographs above or below the water. More advanced techniques which can be learned include the use of equipment such as magnetometers, side-scan sonar, and remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The NAS can be contacted on 01705 818419. There are number of wrecks in British waters which are designated as historic wrecks. These may not be dived except under licence. The Historic Wreck map shows the location of some protected wrecks around Britain such as the Swan and the Dartmouth.
Extractions: For over a century Classics and Archaeology have been active in Liverpool, developing unique facilities, such as our museum, libraries and laboratories. SACE is now one of the UK's leading centres for research and teaching across a broad spectrum of the ancient world, from hominid evolution to ancient languages with nearly 300 undergraduates and over 60 postgrads. Research Teaching News RAE 5/5 (Archaeology). Liverpool is a recognised centre of international importance for research in Archaeology. The Quality Assurance Agency rated SACE "excellent" in 2001 and we have since won several teaching awards. Higher Education Academy's Archaeology Network comes to Liverpool SACE lecturer wins national award for teaching Accessibility
Jordan Valley Archaeology- One Day Conference 2002 british Museum oneday conference on The Jordan Valley in the Bronze and Iron Ages, A Presentation of Recent Excavation and Research. November 4, 2002. http://www.ironsmelting.net/www/conf/
Tony Robinson Unoffical Website Fan site by Cally for the british actor, author and presenter best known as Baldrick in Blackadder and as the presenter of the popular archaeology programme Time Team. http://www.unofficialtonyrobinsonwebsite.co.uk/
Millennia Research Main Page Company with offices in Victoria and Vancouver which specializes in archaeological and ethnographic consulting. Mission statement, company and staff profiles, workshops, and downloadable reports on british Columbia archaeology. http://www.millennia-research.com/
Extractions: Millennia Research Limited specialises in archaeological and ethnographic consulting. Since 1984, the firm has provided professional expertise to governments at all levels including First Nations, and to forest and oil sector companies, smaller companies, developers, and municipalities. Our areas of expertise include archaeological inventory, impact, and overview assessment, arch data recovery, culturally modified tree (CMT) research, waterlogged "wet site" research, GIS applications, traditional use studies (TUS), and archaeological site inventories. In addition to our archaeological research, Millennia Research is actively engaged in the development and implementation of archaeological workshops, training modules, and information programs appropriate for Ministry of Forests personnel, First Nations, private sector companies, municipalities and educators. Millennia has worked with the Archaeology Branch and the BC Association of Professional Consulting Archaeologists to ensure that the materials presented are consistent with developing standards. Millennia Research maintains Revenue Canada accounts, Workers' Compensation coverage, and relevant insurance. Most of our staff has Occupation First Aid Level 1 and are experienced with the following software program, ArcView, RoadEng, DendroScan, and CorelDraw ver.9, as well as with image scanner, digitizer, digital camera and GPS units.
Re-directing... An outline of the history of archaeology provided as background to the longrunning british TV series Time Team. http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/timeteam/
Introduction The theme of this symposium involves the ethics of archaeology practiced in the Maya region of Mexico and northern Central America concerning its impact on living Maya peoples. November 1417, 2002 at the University of british Columbia, Vancouver, BC. http://ethical.arts.ubc.ca/Introduction.html
Extractions: Towards a More Ethical Mayanist Archaeology Introduction Description Preliminary Program Speakers and Abstracts ... Home Introduction The theme of this symposium involves the ethics of archaeology practiced in the Maya region of Mexico and northern Central America concerning its impact on living Maya peoples. While archaeologists are making great strides in negotiating with local Maya communities concerning labor relations and potential infrastructure and touristic development, there has been very little recognition by archaeologists that interpretations of ancient Maya society developed in North America and disseminated through popular and academic media worldwide potentially impact on living Maya. While archaeological investigation of the Maya region over the last century has revealed the artistic, scientific, and engineering achievements of Maya people, interpretations have tended to depict the Maya in a one-dimensional, distorted, even caricatured manner, whether as peaceful priests or as savage warriors. A number of critiques of this discourse produced over the past two decades have noted that these interpretations are grounded primarily in concerns of the archaeologists' society, particularly those of the United States. What has not been sufficiently explored is that these distortions are also the consequence of excluding Maya voices in the act of interpretation, and consequently these distortions lack sensitivity to the concerns and identity of living Maya peoples, many of whom find such interpretations both degrading and politically dangerous. The purpose of the symposium is therefore to include a variety of Maya voices and concerns, and to begin to imagine what kind of Mayanist archaeology would foreground the long-term political goals of many Maya People.
CAPRA - CAVE ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY RESEARCH ARCHIVE An online academic journal sponsored by the british Cave Research Association and produced at the University of Sheffield. Papers, notes for contributers, editors. http://www.shef.ac.uk/~capra/
Extractions: ISSN 1467-8837 If you would like to get in touch then email us at: capra@sheffield.ac.uk Drop us a note of your email address and we can add you to our mailing list, so that we can keep you up to date with news of the journal. This journal is sponsored by BCRA . It is edited, produced and maintained by Jim Williams English Heritage, 44 Derngate, Northampton, NN1 1UH and Andrew T. Chamberlain , Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, Sheffield, S1 4ET. CAPRA
British And Irish Archaeological Bibliography Online, searchable version of the published bibliography to 1992, provided by the archaeology Data Service. http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/biab.html
NAS Portsmouth Home Page A british voluntary organisation formed to further interest in nautical heritage. Membership, training, courses, news and projects. http://www.nasportsmouth.org.uk
Extractions: www.nasportsmouth.org.uk 12 November 2005: Featureing presentations from both professional and amateur archaeologists, the NAS Annual Conference offers a great opportunity to catch up on Members project and events. The post-conference programme includes a Tudor Evening at the Mary Rose, a dive on an Elizabethan Merchantman and a walking tour of historic Portsmouth. NAS Annual Conference 2005 From issue 34.1: The Navarino naval battle site, Greece... , by George Papatheodorou, Maria Geraga and George Ferentinos: A remote sensing survey of Navarino Bay has identified many of the Turkish-Egyptian ships lost in the battle of 1827. Their remains are being damaged by heavy modern anchors, which plough deep furrows through the sediment as they are dragged free. IJNA contents Latest addition: The Oria , a Spanish vessel lost in 1904 on the approach to Holyhead, has been adopted by the DeHaviland Sub Aqua Club (101 Branch BSAC), who visit the site once a month and are planning a survey using the NAS 'DWAP' slates. Index of wreck sites Get involved!
RESCUE - The British Archaeological Trust An independent charitable organization supporting the preservation of UK archaeological heritage. Publishes 'Rescue News' contents list online. http://www.rescue-archaeology.freeserve.co.uk/
Early British Kingdoms Home Page The history of the postRoman Celtic Kings and Kingdoms of Island of Britain, covering maps, chronologies, Royal and saintly biographies, pedigrees, archaeology, adversaries and King Arthur http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/index.html
British Institute Of Archaeology At Ankara - Publications The british Institute of archaeology at Ankara exists to support, promote and publish british research into the archaeology and related subjects (eg http://www.biaa.ac.uk/publications.html
Extractions: In this volume, Dr French, the excavator of Canhasan and for many years Director of the British Institute at Ankara, carefully and concisely presents both the plain and decorated wares, with detailed descriptions of their characteristic fabrics, shapes and decoration. There is a full catalogue of the best-preserved and most important pieces (which were registered finds), but a major feature of the volume are the drawings of over 2,500 less well-preserved pieces, which illustrate all the characteristic shapes and types of decoration. A special feature of the study is a careful grading of the material in terms of chronological reliability. The author privileges the whole, or nearly whole, pots found on floors in each layer, as the only types which were certainly made at the time. Related pottery may be accepted as contemporary, but with less certainty, while unrelated wares must be treated with circumspection, for they may be either recycled from an earlier layer or intrusive from a later one. This rigorous methodology means that the Canhasan pottery provides a completely reliable relative chronology through the Chalcolithic period, and the volume will remain a basic reference for Near Eastern archaeology.
Silchester Insula IX Home Page The University of Reading describes the archaeology of the Romanobritish town called Calleva Atrebatum, the Victorian excavations and the activities of the Field School. http://www.silchester.rdg.ac.uk/
Extractions: or Search the website: We are developing our website and the latest addition is a LINKS page with lots of links to online resources about Silchester and the Romans. The Roman Town is open to visitors all year round. During the Field School season visitors are welcome to visit the Insula IX excavation. See Visitor Info for more details on visiting the site. Are you confused about what we call the 'site'? Where we refer to the site, we mean the archaeological site. To avoid confusion, we call the website the website. The 'Town Life' project is a research and training excavation of one part of the large Roman town at Silchester. The purpose of the excavation is to trace the site's development from its origins before the Roman Conquest to its abandonment in the fifth century A.D. The Roman name for Silchester was Calleva Atrebatum which denotes its role as the centre of the territory of the Atrebates, one of the major late Iron Age tribes in southern Britain.
The Roman Shipwrecks Project The british Museum and the Centre for Maritime archaeology, University of Southampton investigate the existence of Roman wrecks in the waters surrounding the british Isles. http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/PuddingPan/
Extractions: Projects Home Index Help University Home Page The Roman Shipwrecks Project Evidence that Roman wrecks do in fact exist in British waters comes in the form of considerable quantities of continental pottery recovered in the nets of fishermen working in inshore waters although the sources of this material remain unidentified. Fig. 1 Samian ware from Pudding Pan - part of the Townley collection at the British Museum This project intends to conduct detailed surveys of three areas from which Roman material has been recovered in order to locate the sources. The surveys will combine the latest high-resolution marine geophysical survey techniques with diver surveys. The areas identified include an area off the North Kent coast at Herne Bay known as Pudding Pan or Pan Sand, the approaches to St Peter Port harbour in Guernsey, and an additional area yet to be chosen from the results of a survey of Roman material recovered by fishermen. Current work is focussed on Pudding Pan/Pan Sands.
Aerial Archaeological Research Group A forum for the exchange of ideas and information on aerial archaeology. british based, but has international membership. Biannual newsletter, and events. http://aarg.univie.ac.at/
Kathleen Kenyon An illustrated biography by Cheryl Dawley in the Minnesota University Emuseum of the archaeologist who became Honorary Director of the british School of archaeology in Jerusalem and helped found the University of London Institute of Archeology. http://emuseum.mnsu.edu/information/biography/klmno/kenyon_kathleen.html
Extractions: Kathleen Mary Kenyon was the eldest daughter born January 5, 1906 to Sir Frederic Kenyon, Director of the British Museum. Jericho , one of the earliest continuous settlements in the world, was excavated by Kenyon She attended Somerville College at Oxford University Sir Mortimer Wheeler While World War II raged, her work was confined to England. She contributed to the founding of the University of London Institute of Archeology. Kenyon was a lecturer in Palestinian Archeology and actively combined seminar and classroom instruction with actual work in the field. She conducted excavations at Sutton Walls in England and Sabratha in Italy and served as the first Secretary and as acting Director during these war years. She was associated with the Institute from 1935 to 1962. Written Works: The Buildings of Samaria Excavations at Jericho Vol. 1 and 2 Archaeology in the Holy Land Beginnings in Archaeology Digging up Jericho Digging up Jerusalem Jerusalem-Excavating 3000 years of History Amorites and Canaanites Recent Archaeology Kenyon, Dame Kathleen (Mary) Encyclopedia Britannica Online
