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Past Horizons
Ancient Tribal Meeting Ground Found in Australia

Australian archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the world’s southernmost site of early human life, a 40,000-year-old tribal meeting ground, an Aboriginal leader said Wednesday. The site appears to have been the last place of refuge for Aboriginal tribes from the cannon fire of Australia’s first white settlers, said Michael Mansell of the Tasmanian [...]

12 Mar 2010

Theoretical Structural Archaeology
When on Google Earth 85

It has been a while , but having solved Southie Sham's WOGE 84 over at the Moore Group, welcome to WOGE85 at TSA.

Here are the rules:

Q: What is When on Google Earth? A: It’s a game for archaeologists, or anybody else willing to have a go!

Q: How do you play it? A: Simple, you try to identify the site in the picture.

Q: Who wins? A: The first person to correctly identify the site, including its major period of occupation, wins the game.

Q: What does the winner get? A: The winner gets bragging rights and the chance to host the next When on Google Earth on his/her own blog!

Be the first to correctly identify the site below and its major period of occupation in the comments below and you can host your own!
When on Googe Earth Faceboo k Group here;

Good Luck

06 Mar 2010

ArchaeoGeek
Ahoy me hearties, we all be pirates!

There’s a fantastic article in today’s Guardian (via Computer World Magazine) about the International Intellectual Property Alliance, who say that countries advocating the use of open source software should be put on a “Specialist 301 list” (ie a trading watch list) because open source “weakens the software industry” and “fails to build respect for intellectual [...]

24 Feb 2010

Past Thinking
Polynomial Texture Mapping for Archaeologists

This month sees the publication of an article written by myself and Dr Graeme Earl from the University of Southampton’s Archaeological Computing Research Group entitled “Polynomial Texture Mapping for Archaeologists” in the March/April edition of British Archaeology magazine. Polynomial Texture Mapping (PTM) is a technique that uses ordinary digital photography equipment alongside directional lighting. It produces [...]

23 Feb 2010

BAJR Blog
All change!

As you may have noticed, BAJR Blogging has remained unloved since December. This is because of the shiney new BAJR Federation site… http://www.bajrfed.co.uk get along there and enjoy… with news, galleries and forum to keep you up to date and informed. daily updates on jobs, conferences, events, news and views..! so whats stopping you?? See you there! [...]

09 Feb 2010

Online Archaeology Blog
OPEN ARCHIVE - a new web based system for accessing our past

The wealth of information gathered by local archaeological groups and societies on excavations, surveys and documentary research is one of the important sources of data for the study of archaeology in the UK. Currently, this archive of British archaeology is stored locally, within libraries and local history centres as well as with the originating group [...]

16 Sep 2009

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