Archaeology

2204 readers

4 users here now

Welcome to c/Archaeology @ Mander.xyz!

Shovelbums welcome. 🗿

Notice Board

This is a work in progress, please don't mind the mess.

2023-06-15: We are collecting resources for the sidebar!
2023-06-13: We are looking for mods. Send a dm to @[email protected] if interested!

About

Archaeology or archeology[a] is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes.

Archaeology has various goals, which range from understanding culture history to reconstructing past lifeways to documenting and explaining changes in human societies through time.

The discipline involves surveying, excavation, and eventually analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Read more...

Rules

Don't throw mud. Be kind and remember the human.
Keep it rooted (on topic).
No spam.
No pseudoscience/pseudoarchaeology.

Links

Archaeology 101:

Historic England's Guides for the Archaeological Sciences

Get Involved:

AIA Societies (USA)

University and Field Work:

Jobs and Career:

Professional Organisations:

FOSS Tools:

Diamond Open Access in Archaeology
Tools for Quantitative Archaeology – in R
Open Archaeo: A list of open source archaeological tools and software.
The Open Digital Archaeology Textbook

Datasets:

Fun:

Time Team from the BBC

Other Resources:

Similar Communities

[email protected]

Sister Communities

Science and Research

[email protected]

Biology and Life Sciences

Plants & Gardening

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Memes

Find us on Reddit

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

116

French dig team gets 200-year-old note from archaeologist (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

9 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A team of student volunteers on an archaeological dig in northern France has had a surprise communication from the past.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Inside the bottle was a message on paper, rolled up and tied with string.

On Tuesday evening, Mr Blondel opened the paper – which read as follows:

“P.J Féret, a native of Dieppe, member of various intellectual societies, carried out excavations here in January 1825. He continues his investigations in this vast area known as the Cité de Limes or Caesar’s Camp.”

Féret was a local notable, and municipal records confirm that he conducted a first dig at the site 200 years ago.