http://www.theposthole.org/ The Post Hole is a student run newsletter for all those interested in archaeology. It aims to promote discussion and the flow of ideas in the department of Archaeology for the University of York and the wider archaeological community. km531@york.ac.uk (Katie Marsden) webmaster@theposthole.org http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/58/ The French taphonomy-based discipline of 'anthropologie de terrain' is not an approach I expect many of you to be familiar with. It is a lamentable fact that the research carried out on mainland Europe is often unimplemented in British archaeolo http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/69/ Hidden Cities is a new photography feature intended to take Post Hole readers through parts of famous cities that tourists, and perhaps even the residents, never get a chance to see. It is our earnest hope that this will expand the type of submis http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/70/ This is the second part of the On Our Doorstep feature considering examples of how the people of York interact with their heritage. For the first part, on Raindale Mill, please see Issue 9. York Georgian Society Figure 1- Reproduced by kin http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/68/ An interview with Professor Martin Carver, conducted by Mark Simpson- 17/02/10 If you ask an archaeologist, or even an archaeology student, to name a legend of the profession, you may well get a number of different answers. Gordon Childe, Gr http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/65/ Few human behaviours induce more intense feelings of horror, disgust and revulsion - and fascination - than cannibalism (Stoneking 2003, 489) In the 1960's the discovery of the Wari tribe in the western Brazilian rainfor http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/66/ The use of an artist's interpretations in archaeological books and articles, as well as those on television, such as the work of Victor Ambrus, Time Team's Illustrator, are quite often deceptive. The images shown are often composite, showing eve http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/63/ This article is the first of a pair (the second to be in Issue 10) considering 2 examples of how the people of York interact with their heritage. Raindale Mill is 'on our doorstep' and The Posthole wishes to draw attention to it and celebrate th http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/62/ The Teffont Archaeological Project has been running since 2008 and aims to further understanding of the archaeology of the village of Teffont Evias in south Wiltshire (see Figure 1), in particular the late Iron Age, Roman and Early post-Roman http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/64/ Gertrude Bell was an extraordinary woman. Although she died at only 58 her life was one of achievement and adventure, and she was, "...in her time, the most influential figure in the Middle East" (Howell 2006, 3). Despite the fact that she bec http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/61/ [The realm of myth and magic] is a dangerous field: fairies abound, good fairies and bad fairies, dragons and dragon-slayers, gods and goddesses, truth and untruth, history and legend, science and fiction, inextricably mixed and fused. But http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/57/ The Staffordshire hoard is the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver found to date. Officially it has been declared treasure, and museums are currently in the process of deciding whether to bid for the items. It was found by metal http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/56/ Temples and Ritual Temples were obviously divided into public and private areas, in a similar way to houses.Temples as we see them today are generally in a state of ruin, with none of the walls remaining and often only a few columns. This often gi http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/60/ Figure 1 - Leeds historical expedition society (Credit: Davison, P.). I first came across Phill Davison on a website called 'Secret Leeds', a site dedicated to 'investigating quirky, unusual or mysterious aspects of the built environment of the c http://www.theposthole.org/read/article/59/ The Orkney Imagination is haunted by time (George Mackay Brown cited Foster 2006, 57) When you think of Orkney, you see images of an isolated community cut off from civilisation. The fact that Orkney is closer to Norway rather than Lond