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Welcome to The Community Archaeology Website!
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Community
archaeology is easy to define - archaeology by the people for the
people. It is empowered by the reality that within a locality there will
be many people interested and excited by the material evidence for the
past which lies beneath their streets, houses, gardens, workplaces and
is scattered across fields and woods. Although
fascinated by the discoveries of professional
archaeologists, these people want passionately to be
directly involved in the actual process of discovery
themselves and in the research and imaginative
reconstruction that flows from these discoveries. |
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Community archaeology
in action |
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This website is dedicated
to an attempt to realise such ambitions, to give local
people whatever their age, skill level, family and work
obligations, the chance to participate in real archaeology.
This involves not just practical investigations -
excavation, surveying, field walking and so on - but also
doing detailed recording, identifying finds, developing
specialist knowledge, and carrying out documentary
investigations. Most enjoyable of all, it involves working
in a team to define research objectives in the first place,
offer interpretations of findings and disseminate these to a
wider audience through displays, workshops and a variety of
publications. |
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Finds processing back at base |
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Last updated 5:15pm
17-Dec-2008 |
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