SHA Blog » Public Ar http://www.sha.org/blog Society for Historical Archaeology Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:13:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Friday Links: This Week in Historical Archaeology http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/03/friday-links-this-week-in-historical-archaeology-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-links-this-week-in-historical-archaeology-2 http://www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/03/friday-links-this-week-in-historical-archaeology-2/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:38:48 +0000 Terry Brock http://www.sha.org/blog/?p=1100 Continue reading →]]> This week’s photo was taken by the PAST Foundation, on the 2008 Florida Keys Field School. The photo features now University of Southampton PhD Candidate Scott Tucker, who is now conducting his dissertation research at Historic St. Mary’s City. Visit the Field School website for more amazing underwater photos from the Menemon Sanford Project. Special thanks to Sheli Smith for letting us use the photo!

Headlines

The AIA has issued their official response regarding television shows Diggers and American Diggers.

Archaeologists from the University of Bristol have unearthed a slave burial ground in the South Atlantic Island of St. Helena.

University of North Florida Archaeologists are searching for a Spanish Mission on St. Simons Island.

Lynne Goldstein, director of the Michigan State University Campus Archaeology Program, gives a radio interview about their summer excavations.

Call for Papers

Well, there’s us!

Resources

Natural Resources Conservation Service offers a flow chart guide to soil texture.

Scholarships

The Society for Archaeological Sciences offers a Student Research International Travel Award.

The Blogs

Jamie Brandon at Farther Along announces the Arkansas Archaeological Society summer excavations in Washington, Arkansas.

John Roby shares his takeaways from Amber Grafft-Weiss’s blog post about PB&J and public archaeology.

Image used with permission from Sheli Smith at the PAST Foundation.

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