Archaeology walkabouts – announced last month from ADS in the UK – Archaeology Data Service and University of Leicester. The “Virtual Walkabout” archives contain a series of still, 2-dimensional photographic images that collectively try to express the experience of walking round an archaeological site or monument. The images are presented in their Virtual order from…
posts – matters of design
heritage industry
Paul Brown, Guardian environment correspondent writes of the scale of the heritage industry in the UK. The National Trust (owner of historic properties – from antiquity to yesterday – and of exceptional landscapes) – 3.3 million members, with new members signing up faster than the birth rate. 12.7 million visitors last year to paying sites…
archaeological character and subculture
The BBC call him a cross between James Bond, Graham Greene and Indiana Jones. Patrick Leigh Fermor, at 89, is now Sir Patrick. Truly a wonderful writer. A personal anecdote. Setting – the British School at Athens, 1990. Homebase of the British archaeological community in Greece. I was there to continue my research into the…
the news in ancient Greek
Further to my comments on 8 February about attempts to bring Classics alive – I came across Joan Coderch’s AKWN – Acropolis World News – the news in ancient Greek … The latest – Russian election candidate vanishes – first US born panda heading to China – Haitian cities erupt in violent revolt I reminds…
archaeological information
The latest issue of Internet Archaeology, just out, is on the subject of archaeological informatics. I went to the web site with great anticipation. My kind of thing, I thought – new media and digital archaeology. What a disappointment! It was all about the usual themes of building information archives, facilitating access, computation, and Geographic…
cross disciplinary and beyond
Came across a very impressive organization this morning – MIRAlab at the University of Geneva. It describes itself as “a pluridisciplinary lab working on virtual human simulation and virtual worlds”. Archaeology pulls together many kinds of specialists. Reconstructing prehistory requires all sorts of disciplines. So we usually describe archaeology as an interdisciplinary field. And Stanford…