Rhind Lectures - 27th-29th April (Edinburgh)
Living in an age of stone - Gabriel Cooney
The Rhind Lectures for 2007. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
27.04.2007 to 29.04.2007
Free and open to all - no ticket required
This series of Rhind lectures will examine how people lived with stone during the Neolithic in Ireland and Britain, how they engaged with this remarkable material in all its diversity, using it to make new worlds, to establish, maintain and change cultural relationships and connections across geographical space and through time. Material and case studies from stone-using societies in different parts of the world will be drawn on to provide a wider context for the discussion. It will be suggested that looking at the processes of the working of stone, the creation of things, big and small, and their uses provides us with a way of linking objects and monuments which we often tend to see as unrelated phenomena with very different senses of scale and purpose. Focusing on the way in which people engaged and worked with stone provides a new perspective and insight into cultural knowledge during the Neolithic in Ireland and Britain. Free and open to all. No ticket required. For more information, contact info@socantscot.org.
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Erin Osborne-Martin
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
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Practical Archaeology Training Course in September
Practical Archaeology Training Course
at Down Farm, Sixpenny Handley
September 5th – 9th and 12th – 16th2005
Following the success of last year, these five day courses will take place at Martin Green's farm on Cranbourne Chase – 'one of the most carefully studied areas in western Europe'. The Down Farm landscape includes parts of the Dorset Cursus and Ackling Dyke, Bronze Age barrows and Roman and Iron Age buildings. It is a rich, multi-period site in a wonderful setting.
The Trust for Wessex Archaeology is one of the largest and most successful archaeological contractors operating in Britain today. One of the fundamental aims of the Trust is to increase the public's understanding and knowledge of archaeology.
The course will include instruction and practice in site surveying, excavation recording (the production of both written records and scale drawings) and finds processing. During part of each day there will be lectures and workshops on environmental sampling, pottery analysis, faunal remains (bones) and surveying techniques.
The course is suitable both for beginners and those with some experience.
Visit http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/learning/practarch2004/index.html to read about last year's courses and to see photographs and video footage of the activities.
5 day Practical Archaeology Training Course: £150 waged, £100 concessions
For further information and booking details please contact :
Hilda Young, Chief Executive PA, Wessex Archaeology, Portway House, Old Sarum Park, Salisbury, SP4 6EB
Telephone: 01722 343444
Email info@wessexarch.co.uk
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