ARCHIVE Personal and Professional
So often our archaeological profession becomes a personal journey, and that was certainly true for these entrants.
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A trip to Pahang, Malaysia - home of the Batek - lowland rainforest hunter-gatherersBy Isabelle Richardson
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A Journey I have just made from Athens to Lisbon on the expedition ship Silver Wind. I was a guest lecturer in Archaeology on the journey and gave lectures on the Greek colonisation of Italy and the westward expansion of the Phoenicians to Iberia.By Carol Bell
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I was a student at the I of A in the 70s, and the year before I came up I spent digging around the country. One of the sites I worked on was the Sweet Track with John and Bryony Coles, the Neolithic walkway in Somerset of which a bit is currently in the BM Stonehenge show. John gave much attention to taking immaculate excavation photos, and he set up this view with the two scales. I took my own shots (with the cheapest film, which didn’t weather particularly well!). I think of it as a site of Neolithic journeys that started my own journey in archaeology. Still walking.By Mike Pitts
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When entering my BA Archaeology degree, I knew I was going to learn and see some amazing objects. But nothing compared to the feeling of holding this 3,000-year-old Greek jug, the first-ever artefact I held in my very first seminar back in 2019. I knew from that moment that I had chosen the right path and my journey has just begun!By Victoria Judith Igary
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This photo was taken in Carlingford, Republic of Ireland during my first field school experience after completing my BA and before moving to London for my MA. Formerly a pastry chef for 15 years, this experience marked the milestone of using my hands for the first time in my new field, sculpting soil instead of sugar.By Megan Elias
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Back to hang out with archaeologists: A 20-year personal journey from the UCL IoA to the Cobb IoA at the Mississippi State. At first sight, this petite IoA in the Deep South of the United States reminded me a lot of my old times in Gordon Square. Early this year, I was appointed as a research associate at the Cobb IoA and am hoping to continue my archaeological journey with people and projects here.By Meg C. Wang
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My team in Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, 1979 and 1983. A different world then, no running water, no electricity, and certainly a different world now. How great to still have these photos of the villagers. When I went there, they were supposed to be "the Baptism of Fire of the archaeological Middle East". But soon they became good friends…I dread to think what happened to them and the site. (Credits for all photos and All Rights Reserved Romana Hope-Mason, 2022)By Romana Unger-Hamilton
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At the Camp du Charlat, Correze, France, with Sheppard Frere. Author at left, learning how to dig, the start of a long and continuing journey into the past.By Charles Higham
A trip to Pahang, Malaysia - home of the Batek - lowland rainforest hunter-gatherersBy Isabelle Richardson
A Journey I have just made from Athens to Lisbon on the expedition ship Silver Wind. I was a guest lecturer in Archaeology on the journey and gave lectures on the Greek colonisation of Italy and the westward expansion of the Phoenicians to Iberia.By Carol Bell
I was a student at the I of A in the 70s, and the year before I came up I spent digging around the country. One of the sites I worked on was the Sweet Track with John and Bryony Coles, the Neolithic walkway in Somerset of which a bit is currently in the BM Stonehenge show. John gave much attention to taking immaculate excavation photos, and he set up this view with the two scales. I took my own shots (with the cheapest film, which didn’t weather particularly well!). I think of it as a site of Neolithic journeys that started my own journey in archaeology. Still walking.By Mike Pitts
When entering my BA Archaeology degree, I knew I was going to learn and see some amazing objects. But nothing compared to the feeling of holding this 3,000-year-old Greek jug, the first-ever artefact I held in my very first seminar back in 2019. I knew from that moment that I had chosen the right path and my journey has just begun!By Victoria Judith Igary
This photo was taken in Carlingford, Republic of Ireland during my first field school experience after completing my BA and before moving to London for my MA. Formerly a pastry chef for 15 years, this experience marked the milestone of using my hands for the first time in my new field, sculpting soil instead of sugar.By Megan Elias
Back to hang out with archaeologists: A 20-year personal journey from the UCL IoA to the Cobb IoA at the Mississippi State. At first sight, this petite IoA in the Deep South of the United States reminded me a lot of my old times in Gordon Square. Early this year, I was appointed as a research associate at the Cobb IoA and am hoping to continue my archaeological journey with people and projects here.By Meg C. Wang
My team in Tell Nebi Mend, Syria, 1979 and 1983. A different world then, no running water, no electricity, and certainly a different world now. How great to still have these photos of the villagers. When I went there, they were supposed to be "the Baptism of Fire of the archaeological Middle East". But soon they became good friends…I dread to think what happened to them and the site. (Credits for all photos and All Rights Reserved Romana Hope-Mason, 2022)By Romana Unger-Hamilton
At the Camp du Charlat, Correze, France, with Sheppard Frere. Author at left, learning how to dig, the start of a long and continuing journey into the past.By Charles Higham