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Ferrycarrig 2019: Cutting 3

September 4, 2019

Work in Cutting 3 during the two-week field excavation program from Maynooth University

AIA-SCS Joint Harassment Policy for Annual Meeting

September 4, 2019

AIA and SCS are pleased to announce the first-ever joint harassment policy for the AIA-SCS Annual Meeting. A joint AIA and SCS working group, including staff and officers of both organizations, developed the policy in response to events at the 2019 annual meeting and at other academic conferences, including the meeting of the Society for […]

Public Outreach: Jen Thum Skypes with Classrooms

September 3, 2019

This year the AIA is putting out a call for its professional members to participate in the Skype a Scientist program. Over the summer we interviewed AIA Outreach and Education committee member Jen Thum about her past participation in the program to give our members a better idea of what to expect. Find out more […]

IAD 2018: Art in the Serra (da Capivara), Brazil

September 3, 2019

On October 30th 2018, students from the municipal school of Coronel José Dias (Piauí, Brazil) and the larger community participated in the event “Art in the Serra” as part of International Archaeology Day, the global celebration organized by the Archaeological Institute of America. For this occasion, the following activities were held at the Atelier and Library […]

In Memoriam: Robert Connolly

August 28, 2019

The AIA is sad to report the passing of archaeologist, museum director, IAD supporter, and friend Robert Connolly on Tuesday, August 20, 2019, after a courageous battle with cancer. The AIA launched Archaeology Day in 2011 as National Archaeology Day in 2011, mostly relying on the support of its local societies. In 2012, when AIA […]

Ferrycarrig 2019: Summer Cultural Trips

August 28, 2019

As part of each IAFS course’s academic content, we spend several days at the beginning of most programmes on cultural trips.

Ferrycarrig 2019: Experimental Archaeology – Making Ceramics and Textiles

August 27, 2019

The experimental archaeology students learned about medieval textiles and how to make medieval ceramics.

Ferrycarrig 2019: Experimental Archaeology – Furnace Building and Iron Smelting

August 23, 2019

This program in partnership with University College Dublin and Institute for Field Research allowed us to learn about experimental archaeology and relate what we learned to the Carrick excavation.

Ferrycarrig 2019: Carrig 850

August 19, 2019

This year is the 850th Anniversary of the Anglo-Norman arrival in Ireland as well as the construction of the Carrick site itself!

IAD 2018 in Samara, Russia

August 15, 2019

Dear colleagues, Greetings from Samara State Institute of Culture!International Archaeology Day came last year to Samara, Russia! As a 2018 IAD collaborator with the AIA, our Institute and its partners sponsored several projects around the theme “Archaeology as a Scene of Culture: Voices of Things / An Art-Archaeological Performance” during October 20-24, 2018. These included […]

Zominthos 2019: Week 6

August 15, 2019

During the final week of this year’s excavations, we completely removed the Late Minoan I layer full of pottery in Room 65.

Ferrycarrig 2019: Forensic Anthropology

August 14, 2019

The IAFS’s forensic anthropology programme with Maynooth University

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