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2014
Magazine article
MicroPasts: An Innovative Place for Progressing Research
Archaeology has always attracted enthusiastic volunteers, who have participated in excavations, surveys, site recording or artefact handling, as well as museum-related tasks such as engaging with visitors or helping with curatorial duties. However, most data have been produced by specialists. More often than not the knowledge remains in the academic...Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi ; Bevan, Andrew ; Pett, Daniel ; Bonacchi, Chiara ; Wilkin, Neil …
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2015
Journal article
Crowd-sourcing the British Bronze Age: Initial Experiences and Results from the MicroPasts Project
Neal Ascherson (2002) has argued that some nations are ‘tidy with their past’, while others leave theirs ‘unsorted’ for ‘scavengers [to] wander, pulling up interesting fragments’ (Ibid., vii). Ascherson reassures us that the latter attitude is nothing to be ashamed of, given that the lack of a ‘commanding ‘story’ which...Wilkin, Neil ; Bevan, Andrew ; Bonacchi, Chiara ; Keinan-Schoonbaert, Adi ; Pett, Daniel …