Some great new photos have been popping up at Archaeology in Action, the flickr group dedicated to showing archaeologists doing their thing:
From alverstonedig, a muddy dig on the Isle of Wight. They found well preserved Iron Age timbers (with visible axe-marks), a Roman causeway and–this kills me–a hazel leaf, pressed into the bog.
From shovelingtom, a project in Sudan, where there are gorgeous vistas and interesting rock art. I like his photos of the surrounding community as well.
Finally, a photo of a ceramic thin section from a fellow Berkeley PhD student, Andy Roddick. If you click on the photo, he identifies some of the various minerals with notes. I love this aspect of flickr–annotating photos to provide explanations guided by professional vision adds so much to presenting archaeology to the public. And for that matter, to other archaeologists–I surely didn’t know what a biotite looked like!
Colleen Morgan 