Egad! It’s British Archaeology!

The Nov/Dec 2005 issue of British Archaeology is now online. The lead story is From Ashes to Dust: who cares about sports heritage?. Not me. At a time when the Premier League is rolling in money I really struggle to see why Wembley should be lottery funded. To be fair Jason Wood makes a good attempt at promoting sports heritage. It might even convince a reasonable person, but I simply couldn’t care less about old football grounds or Olympic stadia. I suppose I could be interested if the research was into dog tracks or cock pits, but somehow I doubt that’s the kind of sport heritage that SportEngland would be interested in.

This month’s issue though is a cracker. The cover story and most of the feature space is taken up with the Pakefield tools. There is stuff about them being old, but there’s also an attempt to put them into context. Seeing as the Nature article only came out yesterday it’s clear Mike Pitts is working some editorial magic. There’s also a nice column on Web 2.0 by Tom Goskar. It mentions the interactivity of weblogs and other stuff which may seem a bit old hat. However, its appearing in a magazine, rather than preaching to those who already read weblogs. Mind you, despite saying ‘old hat’ I should point out I had to look up what Web 2.0 was. It’s certainly a useful piece explaining the internet to the unwebbed.