Egypt
- Off-topic: Archaeology For Fun And Profit
Science (Sarah Coelho) The economic viability of becoming an archaeologist in the UK. Fixed positions with good salaries can be difficult to find, and now is a particularly bad time for commercial archaeology, because the construction industry--which...
- Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries
http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/ Not Egyptology, of course, but I hope that this may be of interest to visitors. Archaeology Magazine has published the full text of its "Top 10 Discoveries of 2008" article online. For some archaeology buffs, 2008...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Bruce Trigger
http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/04/trigger/ Lovely to see the work of such an important contributor to archaeology (and Egyptology) honoured by his peers: "Indiana Jones's adventures in archaeology had nothing on McGill Professor Bruce Trigger's,...
- Book Review: Egypt In Spectacular Cross-section
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/teach/story/0,14037,1636404,00.htmlEgypt in Spectacular Cross-Section by Stephen Biesty and Stewart Ross (Oxford) is aimed at readers from age 7-11 yrs. The Guardian's Education review is as follows: "At the...
- Bibliographical Introduction To Egyptology
http://www.palarch.nl/Archaeology/egt_2005_3_1.pdf The Bibliographical Introduction to Egyptology by Benoit Claus is is an absolutely super resource that you can access and download free of charge for a limited period from the PalArch website - a massive...
Egypt
Education Guardian University Guide (Archaeology)
http://education.guardian.co.uk/universityguide2008/story/0,,2032944,00.html
Interesting look at archaeology as a University course choice in the UK:
"Indiana Jones, lost arks and temples of doom made archaeology cool 20 years ago, and interest in the subject has continued ever since. Today, in the UK, programmes like Time Team and Meet the Ancestors continue to engage the public with archaeology.
Archaeology is learning about the past through its physical remains, for example, a Roman bath and mosaics or sketches in a mountain cave that depicted daily life 5,000 years ago.
Archaeology courses should give you the practical skills of excavation, but also, just as importantly, teach you to examine what you find and piece it together to get an idea of how we used to live, and where, and how life and the environment has changed.
You'll also learn how to apply what you know of the past to the present, particularly in terms of the politics and economic considerations of heritage tourism."
See the above page for more details.
A list of the UK's universities offering Archaeology courses, organized as a league table, is available at:
Archaeology is learning about the past through its physical remains, for example, a Roman bath and mosaics or sketches in a mountain cave that depicted daily life 5,000 years ago.
Archaeology courses should give you the practical skills of excavation, but also, just as importantly, teach you to examine what you find and piece it together to get an idea of how we used to live, and where, and how life and the environment has changed.
You'll also learn how to apply what you know of the past to the present, particularly in terms of the politics and economic considerations of heritage tourism."
See the above page for more details.
A list of the UK's universities offering Archaeology courses, organized as a league table, is available at:
http://tinyurl.com/yq7zeq
A list of skills needed for or produced by studying archaeology is listed at:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Education/documents/2007/04/17/Archaeology.pdf
A list of skills needed for or produced by studying archaeology is listed at:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Education/documents/2007/04/17/Archaeology.pdf
- Off-topic: Archaeology For Fun And Profit
Science (Sarah Coelho) The economic viability of becoming an archaeologist in the UK. Fixed positions with good salaries can be difficult to find, and now is a particularly bad time for commercial archaeology, because the construction industry--which...
- Archaeology Magazine's Top 10 Discoveries
http://www.archaeology.org/0901/topten/ Not Egyptology, of course, but I hope that this may be of interest to visitors. Archaeology Magazine has published the full text of its "Top 10 Discoveries of 2008" article online. For some archaeology buffs, 2008...
- Book Review: The Archaeology Of Bruce Trigger
http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/04/trigger/ Lovely to see the work of such an important contributor to archaeology (and Egyptology) honoured by his peers: "Indiana Jones's adventures in archaeology had nothing on McGill Professor Bruce Trigger's,...
- Book Review: Egypt In Spectacular Cross-section
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/teach/story/0,14037,1636404,00.htmlEgypt in Spectacular Cross-Section by Stephen Biesty and Stewart Ross (Oxford) is aimed at readers from age 7-11 yrs. The Guardian's Education review is as follows: "At the...
- Bibliographical Introduction To Egyptology
http://www.palarch.nl/Archaeology/egt_2005_3_1.pdf The Bibliographical Introduction to Egyptology by Benoit Claus is is an absolutely super resource that you can access and download free of charge for a limited period from the PalArch website - a massive...