I have contributed little to this site Since 2016. I have been writing (Greece and Rome: a new model of antiquity [Link]), running experiments in fieldwork (Project Borderlands [Link]), exploring applied archaeology (with a host of organizations and corporations), asking questions of the proper role of the academic, the researcher, the scholar. In this contemporary…
Michael Shanks Some positions and roles 2018 Honorary Doctorate, Roskilde University, for expertise in Experiential Learning and Education Futures – a welcome acknowledgement from this wonderful university of my commitment to radically student-centered learning. 2017-2020 Academic Advisor and Board Member, Historic Vehicle Association of America. 2016- Faculty member, Center for Design Research, School of Engineering,…
Gary (Devore) sent me this picture from the outing to Housesteads Roman fort taken by the Binchester Field School on Sunday – the sheep clearly quite at in with the impending rainstorm. I am reminded of waiting for a train at Cambridge station some time ago, sleet driving horizontally up the platform. One ticket guard…
I am missing being at the the Binchester excavations this summer [Link], not least because they have thrown up a remarkable sculpted head in sandstone [Link] It is quite reminiscent of one found at the outpost of Benwell on Hadrian’s Wall back in 1862 and identified as the Celtic god Antenociticus: Another indication of how…
Archaeology is when we work with what remains, what endures Archaeology is a way of thinking and engaging with things that can offer unique insights into how change and innovation work, into the design of things, into where we have come from and where we might go. Archaeology is about encounter, the past-in-the-present, actuality, as…
Chorography – a workshop at Durham University July 10 2012 – [Link] Summer fieldwork. I am less focused on the excavations at Binchester this year [Link]. I am pulling together my long-running research into the region – the English Scottish borders. How do you tell of such a place? All that is there, and has…
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