More Archaeology in the Community
Hi All, As I have previously mentioned, for the last couple of years I have been on the executive committee of the University of Otago Anthropology Society (UOAS), a student society that runs a number of social events during the year, as well as anthropology and archaeology related experiences. A particular goal of the society at present is to get out beyond the university environment and into the community, applying our developing skills where they may be of use. Recently some of us from the society assisted a local charitable organisation, the Southern Heritage Trust, by cataloguing pieces of dismantled historic rope making equipment in Dunedin. For more details about this project, see my earlier post entitled Archaeology in the Community . This post is about another project that members of the society were involved in, alongside a local consultant archaeologist, Dr Peter Petchey of Southern Archaeology Ltd. A short report about this project has appeared in the most recent...