Hello again,

A friend of mine just sent me this link and thought it might be worth sharing:

http://landscapism.blogspot.co.uk/p/exploring-landscape-on-web-evolving.html

Worth a look.

Rosie

Hi everyone,

Have just sent out a group mail regarding submission of the assessment for Module 1. In case it didn't get to you all, just so you know we now have our own portal in Turnitin to submit. I couldn't find anything relevant to our course so contacted Birmingham this morning. On WebCT in 'College of Arts and Law Graduate School', click on the IAA school pages and in the bottom right there is  link to 'Semester 1 turnitin submission' - this takes you to an option for DL students.

Hope this helps

Rosie

Hi everyone. I've been out of formal study for a while since my BA at the Institute in 2000. I was thrilled to discover this course that will help me get up to date with all the approaches and applications since then. I am interested particularly in the potential for computer applications to widen access to and understanding of the Eastern Med and Levant. I've started the course a bit later than normal, and U Birmingham have been incredibly helpful and supportive around this. It looks like there are only about 6 people enrolled on the course, so it would be nice to make contact. Have other people been using the whiteboard as part of the WebCT package, or is there a better way (via email? )

George**Intro

Hello everyone, I'm George and I live and work in Athens, Greece. I am 43 years old, married with two children (four and two years old) and I've been working as an archaeologist for the last fifteen years. I got a BA degree at University College London (1992, classical arcchaeology),  spent about ten years in Laconia, southern greece, an hour's drive from Sparta, in a cave site," Alepotrypa cave". At present I work for the department of cave archaeology (Ephorate of speleology), greek ministry of culture, where I deal mainly with protecting known cave sites and exploring new caves, cataloguing material fom past excavations, et.c. While  working in Alepotrypa cave I excavated quite a lot (burials and habitation areas inside the cave) and became interested in the neolithic period, the transition from neolithic to Bronze Age and neolithic pottery. I have also taken part in underwater excavations in Greece.
    I've been thinking of doing postgraduate studies for a long time but it was only a year ago that I made a decision to apply for the landscape archaeology course at Birmingham, since I took part in a project that started in 2010 and involved field survey,  GIS,   geophysical survey, a bit of excavation, and thought that I could apply some of these methods  in cave archaeology.
I wish good luck to all!
    
  

Rosie's Intro

Hello everyone. Guess I'll kick of the introductions on here...my name is Rosie, I'm 28 and I'm a freelance archaeological consultant based in Kent, UK. I studied for my Undergraduate Degree at University College London, graduating 2006, and have been working in commercial archaeology ever since. I've worked for various units on fieldwork around the South-East, and have been doing more consultancy-based work since my son, Archie, was born - he is now nearly 3. I mostly do desk-based consultancy work, archaeological assessments for development schemes, project designs etc etc, but also fieldwork. I'm excavation manager for a Reading University excavation in Lyminge, Kent - a major Anglo-Saxon excavation which has AHRC funding for the next couple of years (excuse me plugging another blog, but if anyone is interested....http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/lyminge/). 

My main reasons for starting the MA course are really vocational - I want to expand my professional portfolio and start taking on more landscape based work. I get offered bits of GIS work, landscape assessments and Auto-Cad/Surveying work, and generally have to turn it down as I don't have the expertise. Hopefully the MA with Birmingham will change that! I'd also like to apply my studies to the Lyminge site, as I'm pretty fortunate to have access to the records for such an interesting excavation. Also, I am (perhaps a bit pathetically) looking forward to writing an essay! DBA's get a bit formulaic after a while, and having 'no archaeological finds or features' on copy and paste for post-ex reports is a bit soul-destroying! 

Well that's me - look forward to hearing from you all, and here's to a successful 2 years! 

Rosie

Start Here...

Here is where it all begins.  Welcome to the Landscape Archaeology, GIS and Virtual Environments 2012-13 collaborative blog.  You are all authors and once enrolled you can post, edit and comment on content and opinions.  Please use this space, with courtesy and enthusiasm to share your work with your peers (I'm expecting that you will all post on informal assignments here) and to discuss ideas and interests that develop as the course progresses.

You'll find more course information on my teaching blog - giarchaeology.blogspot.com and vague ramblings on landscape, heritage and visualization on my research blog - secondsiteresearch.blogspot.com.  This however, is your blog, so use it!

Keith