British Archaeology – September-October 2023
English | 68 pages | pdf | 63.36 MB
Welcome at British Archaeology magazine September-October 2023 Issue
For the last few months, my social media feeds have been filled with photos of colleagues heading out to excavations across the country for their summer field schools and excavations. In lieu of jumping in the car and visiting every single one, I put a call out for dig reports and was inundated with excellent projects: we have included a few here in this issue (dig round-up) and hope to follow up with more in the future.
As we all know, archaeology is so much more than excavation: Michael Lewis and colleagues are back to write about how the Portable Antiquities Scheme has developed over the past 20 years;Jim Leary considers the archaeology of movement; and Lawrence Shaw, the interaction between trees, forests, and archaeology.
I’m also delighted to introduce British Archaeology magazine new columnist, Dr Chloe Duckworth, who might be familiar from presenting the Great British Dig and other programmes. In her new column, Archaeology Now, she will consider how archaeology fits into the world around us and its relationship with politics in a very wide sense. To start with, she asks the question: ‘Who is archaeology really for?’
With that in mind, the article by Sadie Warson and Guillermo Diaz from MOLA is especially pertinent, as it considers the relationship between archaeology and the construction industry.
Hopefully, this time the magazine will reach all our readers without the unfortunate technical hitch that caused punctuation,
especially hyphens and apostrophes, to inexplicably
vanish in the previous British Archaeology magazine issue!
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