#archaeoogy

Excavated by our friends across the ditch at Macquarie! They seem to be ‘re-found’, which is always a good thing. Good preservation of the relief, at least what shows in the pictures.

Mainland Greece was living in small settlements of mud-brick houses, while Crete housed a sophisticated civilization we call the Minoans. They had skilled artisans and craftsmen who traded widely in the Aegean, Mediterranean, and sometimes beyond. They built palaces ruled by kings. They wrote in what we today call Linear A. Greece itself was a backwater, the recipient of traded goods but not their creator. Then around 1,600 BCE, the mainlanders suddenly began creating almost unimaginable treasures in their newly-lavish tombs. A light had turned on.

THE department of archaeology at the University of York is to host a European photographic exhibition depicting the day-to-day work of archaeologists from next week.

The public exhibition Working in Archaeology, which runs from Monday until March 6 at King’s Manor, features photographs by Belgian photographer Pierre Buch and reflects the different and varied activities of modern archaeological practice.

The exhibition opened at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris in November and will be shown across Europe throughout the year. Professor Julian Richards, director of the Archaeology Data Service, said: “Working in Archaeology suggests answers to questions such as: What is an archaeologist? What do they do? The exhibition explores the diversity of the periods studied, the objects discovered, the tools used, the techniques involved and the many different ways of working and relating stories about the past to the public.”