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I was looking for a British forum for experimental archaeology, and couldn't find one ... that may be because there isn't a need for one ... hence the experiment.

Just found what looks like a new Roman Encampment at Easter Rhynd between the Tay and River Earn. The camp is about 440m N-S and over 400m W-E. (There is no mention on Canmore). The aerial photo shows a single line with a very clear curved NW corner and part of the SW corner. This is very characteri...

Thanks for posting that.

I've been getting fed up looking for material and especially conferences of the "Palaeolithic" only to discover that everything is extremely modern. So, I started wondering what the age before stone would be called. The greek equivalent of "lithic" for wood, appears to be "h...

Last Booking Date for this Event 26th April 2023 Description The organising committee for TRAC 2023 is delighted to invite you to the annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference to be held at Exeter between 27-29th April 2023. Sessions will be online, with a small number of hybrid events. https:...

Do you have a link to get more information?

Whilst looking for a conference on a particular subject I came across this superb list: postgraduate opportunities in archaeology For example, we have just missed: 31 March-1 April 2023: University of Southampton; Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2023 And there are two other conferences happening. Who k...

The last post appeared at about 9pm yesterday. UPDATE: further posts appeared on the 4th April. Like all such events, it's tempting to blame someone and the list owner is an obvious candidate, but realistically, a forum needs people willing to pull together to make it work. A more controversial con...

Upon reflection, I've decided to move this post to a private part of the forum.

To put this in context, I sent two messages to the Old Britarch mailing list informing people of this new forum. Neither post appeared. It seems that the same people who so callously shut down Britarch, didn't want an alternative either! That is the kind of behavour that caused me & others to le...