Kris's Archaeology Blog July 2003 Archive

An obituary for Hawaiian archaeologist 'Pila' Kikuchi appears in the Honololu Advertiser on July 12.

The latest information on the proposed privatization of the United States National Park Service archaeological programs is reported in the Washington Post article called Archaeologists on the Block? (washingtonpost.com). This article ... Read More

The Annual Conference of the SCA will be held at Winchester Cathedral Close this year in September of 2003. The theme is "The Archaeology of Church Interiors

Also from Archaeology magazine, accompany excavators at George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, as they investigate Washington's eighteenth-century whiskey distillery.

Archaeology magazine takes on another in a long line of on-line digs, this time to the classical city of Sagalassos site in Turkey.

At the Thackray Museum in Leeds, slated for mid-October, a conference on "Conserving the Past, Inspiring the Future: the Way Forward".