Oxford Archaeology have recently given their website a complete facelift. In a bold move, visitors to their ‘old’ domain name www.oxfordarch.co.uk are redirected to http://www.thehumanjourney.net/ where the front page contains none of the usual blurb about the company, just a menu and a large showcase image, currently a “Study for the female heidelbergensis face based [...]
Archive | August, 2006
The Megalithic Portal meets Google Earth
Those resourceful people at the Megalithic Portal have just announced that all of the 15582 sites in their database are now available in a single KMZ file, ready to load into Google Earth. The file is 1.6MB, and it slows Google Earth down a bit, but it’s a small price to pay for having all [...]
Dangerous Archaeology
I’m a little slow on blogging this, but it’s too good to let it pass. Most people know that archaeologists don’t spend their time running from falling boulders, or climbing out of snake pits, or being sucked into the sky by tornados. Or do they? On Thursday last week (17th August 2006) a group of [...]
Past Thinking Statistics
I’ve just been having a look at the statistics for pastthinking.com to get an idea of whether anyone is actually reading this, and the results are surprising. Web professionals know that putting an exact figure on the amount of people who have visited (either once or repeatedly) is tricky to get right, and that is [...]
Portable Antiquities Scheme Blog
Today, I’ve just discovered that the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales, have a blog and a whole slew of RSS feeds. The PAS blog covers pretty much everything done by the Scheme, from technical notes about the website the the [...]
