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Trowelblazers
I have been traveling so there has been a complete lack of blogging here lately. However, I would like to take a quick moment to recommend a tumblr blog to you- trowelblazers. http://trowelblazers.tumblr.com/ “Awesome trowel-wielding women: WE SALUTE YOU!” It covers awesome women in the fields of archaeology, palaeontology, and geology. It’s a great blog […]
Posted in: Archaeology Blogs
Devastation in 2 Pictures
May 5, 2013
This is not a long post, just a link and this sentence- “The two images below show the same archaeological site, the ancient city of Apamea, in Syria, firstly as captured by Google Earth on 20th July 2011, and then on 4th April 2012.”
Posted in: Wildcard
Less Archaeology Work- Duh! but still interesting to see the numbers
May 2, 2013
As work on the Profiling the Profession is progressing I have had to look at a variety of different data sources. One source I have looked at is planning applications for construction in England. Raw number of applications do not capture the nuances of work for archaeologists. For example, building a single house will not […]
Posted in: Archaeology the Profession
McDonalds = Archaeology Profession?
April 30, 2013
Sam Hardy has an excellent piece on free archaeology: job insecurity and the need for an archaeological minimum wage. I have been meaning to build off of it for some time now but have been very busy so this is a bit delayed. First, go read Sam’s post- it covers so much and is very good. […]
Posted in: Archaeology the Profession
Copyright and Archaeology- “Walking into the lions den with your cock out”
April 22, 2013
Last week, I presented a paper at the IfA conference that touched on the issue of copyright after my earlier discussion last week about the issue. It was described as, “Walking into the lions den with your cock out” by someone else in the session. Apparently, my musings were controversial and several people were so […]
Posted in: Publishing
Creative Commons Non-commercial A Cruel Joke.
April 11, 2013
edit-updated see end. Got a tweet a few hours ago from @johnwallx pointing me towards this Google group discussion about Creative Commons licenses and 3-D heritage data. Dr. Isenburg was attempting to improve the use of 3-D modelling but had his data removed because it violated the creative commons licensing. If you don’t know what CC […]
Posted in: Publishing
Irish archaeology recovery around the corner?
April 4, 2013
“New data suggests that the rate of decline in archaeological excavation in Ireland is slowing. In the first quarter of 2013 to the 31 of March there were 112 excavation licenses issued by the National Monuments Service in the Republic of Ireland….” you can check out the rest at Charles Mounts blog.
Posted in: Archaeology the Profession
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