Archaeology Scotland Flashcards

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Who are archaeology Scotland

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Eduactional charity working to inspire people to deliver, care for, and enjoy Scotland’s archaeological heritage

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when were they established

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1944

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why are they important

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  • Important to conduct community archaeology and outreach because it offers a new way of looking at, thinking about, and understanding outselves and the world we live in
  • Increased sense of place, community, wellbeing
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Curriculum

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Archaeology hits every part of the curriculum: social studies, literacy, maths, science, technology, expressive arts, religious and moral educaotion

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Heritage Resources Portal

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  • Provides resources for early years through to adult learners and community
  • Majority of resources are for early years and engaging activities for children
  • contains links to information raning from archaeology careers, to how to build a broch
  • Hard focus on early years education and engaging activities for children
  • Secondary school resources focus on interdisciplinary learning, e.g. dig into maths
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Loan Kits

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  • Artefact investigation kits containing real and replica artefacts
  • Free to loan for a max of 4 weeks, just have to email the eduation specific address
  • Fantastic Flints; Industrial; Iron Age; Roman Age; Viking; Story Telling
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LK - Fantastic Flints

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  • Meso to Bronze
  • Replicas: flint core, antler tools, barbed and tanged arrow heads
  • Real: Hammerstone, flint blade, scrapers
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LK Storytelling kit

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  • Aimed at early years
  • Pottery fragments
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LK Industrial

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  • Coal
  • Cast iron
  • Miners shoe
  • Steel
  • Brick fragment
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Attainment Through Archaeology

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  • Connect young people with local heritage, raising aspirations for work, new skills etc
  • Developed and ran by professional archaeologists and tailored to learners needs
  • include desk based assessments, excavation, historic building recording, walkover survey, graveyard survey, heritage interpretaiton
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YAC - Young Archaeologists Club

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  • Both online and in person
  • The only UK wide archaeology club for young people
  • 18-16 year olds can participate in REAL archaeology
  • 70 clubs ran throughout the UK with 500 dedicated volunteers
  • Deliver over 10,000 archaeology heritage - based places every year
  • Supported by CBA
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Archaeology Ambassadors

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  • ‘inspiring the next generation of archaeologists’
  • Professionals go into schools and talk to young people about their job, skills, and pathways into the profession
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Heritage Hero Awards

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  • A wider acheivement award for history, heritage, and archaeology projects
  • Aims to break down barriers to participation in cultural heritage
  • Award structure: plan, investigate, engage, inspire, reflect
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Summer School

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  • Adult members and volunteers
  • 2025 will be held at Easter Ross and the Black Isle
  • Take members and friends to explore the archaeology
  • Some sites require 500m walks, alternate sites near the coach stop will be arranged for those with mobility issues
  • Specialists provide short lectures
  • Has been just under 30 SS held in UK
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Lifelong learning in lockdown

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  • virtual archaeology sessions for older people suffering with alzheimers and dementia
  • Multi sensory online workshop for people living with dementia, their families, and their carers
  • Funding from Falkirk Health and Social Care partnership and Alzheimers Scotland
  • Didn’t rely on reminisence but learning about new discoveries together
  • Useful resource was the dementia toolkit from Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery
  • Packs of objecst were posted to participants to engage smell, touch, and sight
  • Online presentation simulated hearing and sight
  • Tactile experience of holding a neolithic polished stone axehead was replicated by feeling a polished pebble from the kit
  • Workshops include a virtual summer trip to Ardnumurchan and 3 workshops to local sites
  • Considered key concepts such as stratigraphy or isotopes
  • Focused on excavations by AS
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