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Crowdfunding Archaeology: Ancient Roman DNA Project
Kristina Kilgrove, aka @BoneGirlPhD has an excellent project on RocketHub, looking for funds: This is the second archaeological project I’ve seen this year bypassing the traditional means for funding research (the first being the Maenander Project by Colleen Morgan, via Kickstarter; Colleen’s fundraising was successful, btw). It only makes sense. Archaeology is exciting.
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DNA archaeology
DNA Testing on 2,000-Year-Old Bones in Italy Reveal East Asian Ancestry Researchers excavating an ancient Roman cemetery made a surprising discovery when they extracted ancient mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from one of the skeletons bur... Read Post
Digventures, Flag Fen, and Crowd-everything archaeology
On 29th February 2012, DigVentures, a social enterprise dedicated to funding sustainable archaeology projects, launched a 60 day funding round for Europe’s first ever crowdfunded and crowdsourced excavation, on the iconic Bronze Age... Read Post
Plovdiv Roman Stadium Restoration Project
The ancient Roman Stadium in the heart of the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv is to be restored in an archaeological project launched on Thursday. Plovdiv Regional Administration has succeeded in obtaining European funding of over EUR 900... Read Post