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Are you are interested in taking part in an excavation of a Roman settelement in Otford, Seavenoaks, Kent, UK.
Its the follow up excavation to the one in April which had over 40 people taking part
The site is on grassland in the small rural village of Otford in Kent. The site has produced large amounts Roman [...]

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Since 2003 students from the U.K., U.S.A. & Canada have participated in the International Volunteer Program of the Dispilio Excavations. Dispilio is one of the most important Neolithic sites in the Aegean, and the first prehistoric lakeside settlement to be excavated in Greece. Research started in 1992 and each year students from the Aristotle University [...]

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The remains of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico are preserved at Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Within the 2,200-acre tract, located a few miles west of Collinsville, Illinois, lie the archaeological remnants of the central section of the ancient settlement that is today known as Cahokia.
Cahokia Mounds has been recognized as [...]

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Broch excavations began in 2006 and 2007, proving this to be a site of great complexity and archaeological importance.
Join Highland Archaeology Services and the community of Applecross in this unique opportunity to gain practical
archaeological experience.
Learn: Practical excavation techniques, site recording/planning, finds processing/analysis, DGPS, computerized recording, total station and digital SLR photography.
Contact us for more information!
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Closos Ca’n Gaia is a Bronze Age settlement with a chronology from 1600 B.C. to 800 B.C., on the Balearic Island of Mallorca in Spain.
At the moment excavations are concentrated on a naveta, a typical house of this period.

Volunteer
Minimun age:  18
Dates:  28 July - 17 August 2008
No experience necessary, must stay for whole dig period
Cost:  Free including accommodation
Contact David [...]

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Founded in 1996, the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) is a long-term, multi-period, multi-disciplinary research project set up to investigate the entire range of human settlement and land-use in a typical North West Norfolk parish, from the earliest times to the present day. SHARP is strongly rooted in the local community, whose heritage [...]

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In the archaeology of the Holy Land, the cultures of the Neolithic period (8,500-4,300 B.C.) are often relegated to the nebulous realm of “prehistory,” a blanket term for those long eras of human history that lack written texts. This often leads to the misconception that such cultures are unknowable and incomprehensible to the modern mind [...]

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Bamburgh Castle is one of the most important archaeological sites in Britain, containing within its bounds layers representing more than 2000 years of continuous occupation. Surprisingly, it has attracted relatively little archaeological attention. The first excavations within the Castle occurred in the 1960s and 1970s and were resumed in 1996 by the Bamburgh Research Project.
Bamburgh [...]

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The ruins of the original Spanish settlement of Panama City (founded in 1519 and destroyed during the attack of Henry Morgan in 1671), referred to as “Panamá Viejo”, today are part of an archaeological park which has been recently nominated as world heritage.
Our team has devoted several years to the interpretation of 16th and 17th [...]

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The project will be working on the Roman to late Byzantine naval base, fortress and town of Noviodunum, Romania. The site lies on the Danube in eastern Romania, not far from the Danube Delta.
Four small scale pilot seasons took place undertaking a variety of survey work on the site (topographic, pick-up and geophysical surveys).
 Excavation started [...]

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