Hey fellow archaeo-philes, want to help me out with some artifact identification (and do some of the work for me *wink)? I’ve been slaving away in the lab trying to identify the artifacts we excavated from our survey in Driftwood this past summer, and while I’ve had some luck with most of them a [...]
19Apr11
Lab Time with Becky
As a public archaeologist, I have to know what interests the public and try to use that interest to promote archaeology. Since my focus is archaeotourism, I wanted to see how the latest trend could be used to engage the public with archaeology. The trend for the moment is smart phones with its myriad of [...]
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Tagged archaeology, Foursquare, Public Archaeology, SCVNGR, site-seeing
Tagged archaeology, Foursquare, Public Archaeology, SCVNGR, site-seeing
12Apr11
…more than just objects
Two Sundays ago (April 3, 2011) the Bradenton Times published an article featuring the exploits of a couple local guys that go about hunting for artifacts (http://bit.ly/gY6y7l). I’m posting the original article (link above) and our response (http://bit.ly/eEX6w1) published Monday, April 11. My intentions are not so much to belabor the point (well, maybe a little). But folks who spend [...]
