Battle of Barnet may be mile north of accepted site THE BATTLE of Barnet may be one mile to the north of the accepted site, according to an archaeological group. The Battlefields Trust is launching an appeal to raise money for an ar...

Archaeologists Explore Canberra’s Space History Agroup of archaeologists have explored the remains of Canberra’s Orroral Valley NASA tracking station in an effort to preserve the site’s heritage. The group has been mapping the site ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a water pump - possibly unique - in the grounds of Walton Gardens. Members of Priestley Field Archaeology Group (PFAG) carried out a three-year excavation on behalf of Warrington Borough Council, which ...

I have been fascinated by the implications of the speculative turn for archaeology for some time now. I have been pulling together several pieces--aspects of which were presented in previous Theoretical Archaeology Group Meetings (...

Once again the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology in Greece Interest Group of the Archaeological Institute of America is sponsoring a panel at the AIA Annual Meeting. While I won't be at the meeting, I will be giving a paper wit...

Just before the holidays, I was invited to give the library’s Elwyn Robinson Lecture. The librarian suggested that I do something that highlights how my research will benefit from the newly established Working Group in Digital and N...

The winner of the 2009 Marsh Archaeology Award was announced earlier today by the Council for British Archaeology at the end of a session on public participation in archaeology at the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference in Durh...

Just stumbled across an interesting website called Archaeopix. “Archaeopix is a website associated with the Archaeology Group at Flickr. It picks photos from the pool which are available under a Creative Commons licence. This means ...

Hunters’ remains earliest known SCOTLAND’S foremost amateur archaeologist, Tam Ward of Biggar Archaeology Group, was guest speaker at the November meeting of Lanark and District Archaeological Society. . . . Tam related how the site...

The Looting Matters debate with the Heritage Studies Research Group of the Institute of Archaeology starts at Thursday 5 pm in the Galton Lecture Theatre, Torrington Place, London. What are the breaking issues? ...

Archaeologist group opposes Act 250 changes Archaeologists aren’t ordinarily involved in regulatory battles and political infighting. But a handful of those in the profession have formed in recent weeks to oppose a state proposal to...

The Penn Museum has put up "What in the Word", a series from the 1950s, in which a group of panelists (one of which is physical anthropologist Carleton Coon) discuss various artifacts in the context of world archaeology/anthropology...

Once again, it's digging season for the group, and you can keep up with discoveries on its blog at http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/.We're investigating a site at a deserted crossroads in the medieval village of Norton, now part ...

Archaeology in Bradford County: Digging for history at French Azilum French Azilum was originally a settlement for a group of French exiles who settled there in the 1790s, according to the French Azilum Web site. Many had fled Franc...

Archaeologist scrubs Confederate markers Archaeologist Dan Allen with Cumberland Research Group recently spent nine days cleaning close to 1,600 cemetery monuments. The monuments, which range from small to large, mark the graves of ...

Colleen Morgan, University of California, Berkeley At first, I was at a loss. Earlier in the week I had stated my intention to twitter the Stanford meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group on my blog, but there I was, stand...

Major dig at earliest Scots site A big archaeological dig is taking place at the site in South Lanarkshire where the earliest evidence of human beings in Scotland was found. The Biggar Archaeology Group is beginning a major excavati...

A big archaeological dig is taking place at the site in South Lanarkshire where the earliest evidence of human beings in Scotland was found. The Biggar Archaeology Group is beginning a major excavation of the area at Howburn Farm ne...

I would like to draw your attention to the blog of the Theoretical Archaeology Seminar at Athens (TASA) (formerly known as the British-Irish Theory Seminars).TASA was founded by a group of young scholars based at Athens, Greece. Its...

A GROUP of amateur archaeologists from Biggar have re-written Scotland’s history books – by proving that man inhabited this country 4000 years earlier than was first thought.The award-winning team from Biggar Museum Archaeology Grou...