Are YOU ready? Life after A levels…
Are you ready to join us? Did you get your place with us? We’re really looking to seeing you soon!  If you got your A-level grades, we’re really pleased that you’re going to be joining us in September. Let’s hope that it is with better weather than today!
If you didn’t get the A level results you wanted, don’t panic! Archaeology still has a few places for suitable candidates.
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Waiting for A-level results? Archaeology’s Newsletter
Waiting for your A-level results? Good luck! We’ve got our fingers crossed for you and hope that you get the results that you hoped for. In the meantime, while you’re waiting for your results, why not read our departmental summer newsletter? Find out what everyone has been up to in Artefact here: Artefact_2015_Summer.
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Day of Archaeology
Today is the international Day of Archaeology (if you search twitter #dayofarch and the official webpage you will lots of postings). And it’s when some of us try to tell the world what we really do – using just one day as a snapshot.
Well my day started slowly. Heavy rain outside. Not a great day to be in the field. I felt sorry for people trying to excavate in the heavy rain – but I had a day of data analysis planned.
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Postcard from Iberia: RTI recording of Palaeolithic cave and rock art in Spain and Portugal
Marta DÃaz-Guardamino and Paul Pettitt recording Palaeolithic art in El Castillo Cave, Spain
It was 40oC in the direct sun, too hot and too bright to head into Portugal’s Côa valley to record the open-air Paleolithic rock engravings of this World Heritage Site, so we waited until 8pm, until the temperature reached a slightly more manageable 32oC, and more importantly the sun was setting behind the steep side of the valley.
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Festival of British Archaeology
It is less than a week until the start of the Festival of British Archaeology – and we will be holding lots of events, both on and off-campus, during 2 weeks of the Festival.
Everything kicks off with an Archaeology Activity Day this Saturday 11th July. Just drop in to take part in a series of hands-on activities related to aspects of archaeology within the department.
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Bioarchaeology & Osteoarchaeology @ Southampton Interns (#BOSI)
Our first group of interns working on skeletal bioarchaeology started today – focusing on the human skeletons from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Great Chesterford in Essex. During the 3 week internship, topics to be covered by Dr Ellie Williams & Sarah Stark (with occasional help from others including Alistair Pike and Sonia Zakrzewski amongst others) will include ageing and sexing of human remains – and all the problems and issues that arise in trying to do this.
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Guest Post: The Payroll Union’s Paris of America
Today at The Junto, Andrew Heath and Pete David discuss their collaboration on David's band, The Payroll Union, and its new album, Paris of...
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Q&A: Jessica Roney, Governed by a Spirit of Opposition
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann interviews Jessica Roney about her book on colonial Philadelphia, Governed by a Spirit of...
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Postcard from South Africa #4.
Wednesday 6th May.
Today we make the long drive from the border down to the south of Kruger and sadly neither Clare nor I are able to share in the driving so it is all on poor Johan, but he is very laid back about it all. As you’ll expect from me by now, the prospect of a long drive across South Africa is something I am looking forward to.
But first a real treat. A bush walk with Brigitta who showed us Koaxa’s Shelter yesterday.
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