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