Archaeology

97 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 @fossilesque@mander.xyz 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

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

---

---

Links

Archaeology 101:

• Historic England's Guides for the Archaeological Sciences

Get Involved:

• AIA Societies (USA)

University and Field Work:

• Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin
• University Archaeology (UK)

Jobs and Career:

• Ways into Archaeology
• Profiling the Profession
• Shovelbums

Professional Organisations:

• Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (UK)
• BAJR (UK)
• Association for Environmental Archaeology
• Archaeology Scotland
• Historic England

FOSS Tools:

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

Datasets:

• Dutch archaeological repository (Archis III)
• Archaeology Data Service (UK)

Fun:

• Time Team from the BBC

Other Resources:

• List of Archaeological Academic Journals
• Archaeologists of Mastodon Listing
• Academics on Mastodon

---

---

Similar Communities

• !openscience@lemmy.ml

---

Sister Communities

Science and Research

• !scicomm@mander.xyz

Biology and Life Sciences

• !anthropology@mander.xyz
• !biodiversity@mander.xyz
• !palaeoecology@mander.xyz
• !palaeontology@mander.xyz

Plants & Gardening

• !balconygardening@slrpnk.net
• !gardening@mander.xyz
• !houseplants@mander.xyz
• !plantid@mander.xyz

Physical Sciences

• !earthscience@mander.xyz
• !geography@mander.xyz
• !geospatial@mander.xyz
• !soilscience@slrpnk.net

Humanities and Social Sciences

• !archaeology@mander.xyz
• !folklore@mander.xyz
• !history@mander.xyz
• !old_maps@mander.xyz

Memes

• !bushrat_confidential@slrpnk.net
• !science_memes@mander.xyz

---

Find us on Reddit

• r/enviro_archaeology
• r/geoarchaeology

MODERATORS