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Oyster shell inserts at Glastonbury Tor | Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet
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Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet. Oyster shell inserts at Glastonbury Tor. June 11, 2015. Back in 2010, I presented a poster on shells in archaeological building materials at the International Council for Archaeozoology conference in Paris, which was published as a book chapter last year ( you can read and download a proof copy here. Click to email (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Archaeology, A...
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Projects | Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet
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Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet. Settlement, Land Use and Environmental Change in the Outer Hebrides: The Molluscan Evidence. Public Engagement and Digital Archaeology. 8221; The first day of archaeology, on July 29th 2011, attracted over 400 posts from archaeologists around the world. See http:/ www.dayofarchaeology.com. A Pint with the Past. Back to the Future? Animals and Archaeology in Einsteins Garden. An AHRC Student-Led Initiative (2010-2011) which consisted of a tr...
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Nimrud: Battle ignorance and brutality with education and sharing | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. Nimrud: Battle ignorance and brutality with education and sharing. Before I wrote about the British Museum’s Assyrian galleries. Islamic State released shocking footage. Calls it the worst case of deliberate destruction of an archaeological site in living memory . Jonathan Tubb, keeper of the BM’s Department of the Middle East, has it exactly right as the Art Newspaper. We need to get over the threshold of...
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Is this a dagger which I see before me? | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. Is this a dagger which I see before me? This rather nice postcard and its message give me an opportunity to return to Stonehenge. It’s curious to think of the stones promoting a homily from Winston Churchill and not on an official card. Mr (? The Reverend) G Richens (his notification of his dinner needs suggests he’s writing to his wife or mother, but perhaps she was a care lady? Had they even been noticed?
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Easter Island – Rapa Nui | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. Easter Island Rapa Nui. I fulfilled a childhood dream in 1994 and spent a month on Easter Island, staying with a family in the town and camping around the sites. I hope to return. In the meantime, I recently took part in a major study of Hoa Hakananai’a, the large Easter Island statue on display in the British Museum. I will post links here to our peer-reviewed papers as they are published. By Mike Pitts, ...
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[The Book of the British Countryside] Abbey | Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet
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Adventures in Archaeology, Human Palaeoecology and the Internet. The Book of the British Countryside] Abbey. May 30, 2015. The Book of the British Countryside. Abbey Barn and Abbey Farm in Yeovil. Built c.1420, but not a real abbey. Most recently, and possibly coming full circle, earlier this year I worked on a shellfish assemblage from the Abbot’s Kitchen at Glastonbury Abbey (one of the most powerful abbeys) dominated by oysters and whelks. That report is now online, and can be read here. Archaeology i...
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Photography | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. Jacques Brel’s grave, Hiva-Oa, Marquesas. Tongariki, Easter Island. Petroglyphs, Easter Island. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. The age of A’a.
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Art | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. I never thought of this as a blog about art, but I’ve noticed that when I write something on the subject, it often gets more sometimes many more views than anything else on the site. So if your interest is primarily in art and you’d like to read more, here is a list of my mainly arty blogs. Boris Anrep National Gallery mosaics. With floor plans (July 31 2016). Snapshots in Tate Britain (March 4 2016).
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Lasers at Stonehenge | Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper
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Mike Pitts Digging Deeper. Easter Island Rapa Nui. 8220;British Archaeology”. 8220;Digging Deeper”. How the stones were dressed and what the original monument looked like. Prehistoric carvings difficult to see and unknown to visitors: the new discoveries have doubled the number of such carvings known in the whole of Britain. Damage by tourists: the scale of damage done by souvenir collectors in the 18th and 19th centuries had not been recognised before. It was filed under Archaeology. Enter your comment ...
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