Heritage Punk 28/02/13 – 4PM
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Date for PGRAS 2013
The annual Archaeology PGR Symposium will be held on 23-24th May.
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Contemplating the necessity for international collaboration in maritime research
This has been a busy week. Instead of writing the dreaded chapter for a gazetteer, this week has been filled with meetings and seminars from visiting scholars undertaking maritime research around the globe. The arrival of our colleagues from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA), the University of Western Australia, Thessaloniki University (Greece) and Yokohama National University (Japan) has been coincidental; we were not hosting an international symposium or congress.
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#bttowerview
I love this digital stuff. Following a tweet and some exchanges of emails the inimitable @cgutteridge has created a great mashup of the BT tower view panorama, wikipedia (including use of RDF) and lat long locations e.g. from google maps. Have a look at the BTtowerview mashup. It would be great to identify some archaeological and architectural history locations as RDF to feed into the view.
Has anyone hacked a way of turning a long lat location to #bttowerview bookmark? e.g. btlondon2012.co.
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Upcoming….
8th March
Dr. Rob Hosfield
University of Reading, UK
“Walking in a winter wonderland? Mid-latitude seasonal mobility options in the Lower Palaeolithic”
Abstract: Any occupation of northern Europe by Lower Palaeolithic hominins (H. heidelbergensis/proto-Neanderthals, and H. erectus and/or antecessor?) must have addressed the challenges of marked seasonality and cold winters, primarily during ‘interglacial’ MIS.
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CinBA conference update
The programme for the international conference Creativity: An Exploration Through the Bronze Age and Contemporary Responses to the Bronze Age is now available. It promises to be a very exciting event with 32 speakers and 10 poster presentations.
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#CAAUK and Fragmented Narrative
I’m posting this from Day Two of the CAAUK conference. I think there may be more of relevance to my studies today, though yesterday was by no means disappointing. There were many thought provoking points made, and I got to meet more of my fellow Southampton students than I’ve met so far while actually at University.
I also heard yesterday that my seminar in Thursday might be streamed to York University’s Cultural Heritage students. Argh! Scary.
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End of first phase of magnetometry – and a day off
Second blog of the day trying to catch up on over a week of missed writing. For the last four days the magnetometry has been continuing in the necropolis area of Antinoupolis. Work starts on site at 7am sharp, and we take a knackered old pick-up truck on a track roughly along the line of one of the decumani of the city, out to the Severian wall and up to the Coptic chapel of Theodosia adjacent to the Roman necropolis.
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Inter-tidal and underwater survey methods – a busy week
It has been a busy week in the centr,e with numerous talks by visiting speakers and more practical instruction on the MA/MSc programme. This has seen discussion of advances in AUV technology for extensive and intensive surveys, photogrammetric techniques (onland and underwater) and RTI applications.
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Antinoupolis Survey Magnetometry Commences
Trying to catch up with blog posts this week, on a slow internet connection and pushing the magnetometer survey forwards. Work is moving ahead with the survey of the necropolis of Antinoupolis. The area was gridded out last Saturday, with 10 hectares prepared, and the magnetometry has been moving forwards. The area in question is located between the north-western corner of the city, the Coptic cemetery to the west and the confines of the wadi to the north.
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