This paper offers a brief introduction to MicroPasts, web-enabled crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding project whose overall goal is promote the collection use of high quality research data via institutional community collaborations, both on- off-line. In addition introducing this initiative, discussion below reflection its lead author’s core contribution will dwell in more detail on one particular aspect MicroPasts: relevance practice public archaeology, cultural policy heritage studies.

<ns4:p>Background In the 1920s and 1930s Flinders Petrie excavated several sites in British Mandate Palestine (Tell Jemmeh, Tell Fara el-ʿAjjul), encountering numerous burials dating from Chalcolithic period down to Ottoman period. The osteological finds were thought have been discarded, until authors identified a curated selection of skeletal human remains these tombs at Duckworth Laboratory Cambridge 2017/2018. Methods Rachael Sparks conducted archival research explore how Petrie’s...

Archaeology has a long tradition of volunteer involvement but also faces considerable challenges in protecting and understanding geographically widespread, rapidly dwindling every-threatened cultural resource. This paper considers newly launched, multi-application crowd-sourcing project called MicroPasts, whose focus is on enabling both community-led massive online contributions to high quality research archaeology, history heritage. We reflect preliminary results from this initiative with...

Flinders Petrie excavated the site of Tell el-'Ajjul in southern Palestine over five seasons between 1930 and 1938, with publication his finds following swiftly on heels fieldwork. These reports were only ever meant to be a preliminary investigation into potential this rich site, often raised as many questions they answered. This material is now subject Palestinian Project, based at Institute Archaeology, University College London, which aims re-evaluate Petrie's light more recent research....

Flinders Petrie was one of the earliest excavators to recognise that all archaeological material had research potential, and pursued a whole range artefact types as key understanding past cultures. But what impact did way in which he excavated have on rate at objects were discovered, condition they found? And how important it him acquired closely linked physical chronological landscape his sites? This article looks Petrie's field practices try answer some these questions, with particular...

The cost of archaeological fieldwork has always been high, even for someone as notoriously parsimonious Flinders Petrie. Money was constantly needed to finance his excavations, bring objects back England and organize publication the results. Over course career Petrie developed a range fundraising strategies, including setting up British School Archaeology in Egypt coordinate efforts. Moving base operations Mandate Palestine brought whole new series challenges, not least being how generate...

Gerald Lankester Harding (1901–1979) was an influential archaeologist and epigrapher whose field career began in 1926, when he set out to work for Flinders Petrie at Tell Jemmeh British Mandate Palestine. Harding's experiences on this, his first dig, were captured through personal diary photographs, which form part of a larger archive now housed the UCL Institute Archaeology Collections. This material is presented here time, exploring how came into archaeology, what it like live excavation,...

Direct encounters with archaeological materials are an effective way to teach the practical side of discipline while developing transferable skills such as observation, deductive reasoning, critical analysis and group working. This paper draws on authors own experiences develop guidelines for object handling in university classroom. Good preparation, informed implementation, consolidation gains integration sessions into wider curriculum key elements strategy.

Many of the items found in funerary assemblages can be understood as objects employed performance ritual or luxury products reflecting social status deceased. Other utilitarian seem to fall outside these spheres, and while they may indicative former lifestyle profession, also hold symbolic significance. This paper presents one such group, a range fishing-related from tombs at Tell el-‘Ajjul Southern Levant. Confined small number burials dating Late Bronze Age, associations with...

Flinders Petrie, is best known for his work in Egypt.However, he devoted the last 15 years of life to digging southern Palestine, which euphemistically described as "Egypt over border".Although may have used this phrase partly persuade supporters, such British School Archaeology Egypt, continue funding projects, it was no idle comment.Indeed, one main characteristics three sites Palestine that Petrie chose excavate they lay a frontier zone at edge land Canaanites. 2 Farther south, more arid...

The number of textbooks available for the study ancient Near East has expanded in recent years, with individual volumes focusing on archaeology Israel, Jordan, and Syria—although we still await anything comparable covering Lebanon. These works break up region into a series smaller, more digestible areas, defined by limitations modern political boundaries than geographic or cultural realities.

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