We are archaeologists or people interested in archaeology. Anthropologists etc are definately welcome! The aims of the club are to link deviants with an interest in archaeology, and to amass a collection (favs and submissions) which are related to all things archaeology (artefacts, ruins, digs, etc).

News
28/7/2009
I've just bought a 3 month sub for the club! Now we can have a pretty journal (I'm looking at the freebies, but if anyone wants to volunteer to make the club some archaeology/heritage related css, it would be greatly appreciated!) and can display our stamps etc... let me know if you have any recommendations..
21/7/2009
Sorry I have been offline for so long. I don't have the internet on at home at the moment (and havent since it broke in October) and so my internet usage has been serverely limited. I plan on getting this fixed shortly, so I found some time to log in. When we get a few more members, I will be asking around for someone to help out at a later stage, but it isnt an issue when we have 20 members.
I havent been keeping up with people's galleries, so if you have anything you have uploaded that we should favourite, or you have seen a brilliant deviation by someone else that is archaeology-related can you please let me know? just send me a note or click on the "share it/blog it" option on the deviation.
I'm getting a sub for the group again... the bloody stamps aren't showing up *sigh*

To Join
Send me a note asking to join, as well as watching *ArchaeologyClub and displaying our icon on your profile.

Submissions
If you wish to submit any of your deviations, you can either send me a link to the deviation (I need to be able to download it to upload it), or email deviantart.archaeologyclubATgmailDOTcom

Favourites
If you come across any deviations on dA you think we should have as a favourite - be they archaeology, history or culture related, please use the "share this/blog this" option under the or send me a note with the thumbnail or a link.

Suggestions
If you have any suggestions please note me, or comment on the latest journal entry. I am especially interested in suggestions for poll questions, and maybe in the future, competition themes (once we have more members LOL) etc. I'm also listing some archaeology resources below - if you know of any other journals (respected by academia) or resources, can you please let me know, and I will add them to.

Customisation
If you have a creative impulse to make *ArchaeologyClub-themed items (IDs, journal css, avatars etc) please be my guest! I just roughed up some when I created the club. We have a couple of stamp makers here (myself included) and ~LylicaGalatea (aka ~MyStamps) made us a club stamp and has another archaeology stamp you might like

If you have any other correspondence, please send me a note here, or to my art account [link] (I check my =obsidiantears83 account every day) or email deviantart.archaeologyclubATgmailDOTcom

If you have any friends who might like to join, please make up some sensational non-malicious gossip about *ArchaeologyClub to get them to check out our club (archaeologists do it in the dirt etc) and if you come up with any good ones, please let me know! I'm planning to make some stamps LOL

I'd love to hear about you and your stories! We will have a feature on a club member every time we have a new journal entry!!

Members List:
=obsidiantears83
~LylicaGalatea
~Veinandra
~TimeladyShayde
~Renifer
~Vashna
~SkyshroudHitokiri
*DaemonHikage
~HenryIndianaJones
~evilbeing
*SVEM
~Arlome
~Mroophka
~Tjahzi
~andulin
~Moto-Princess
~SoundsLikeADeathwish
~celticraindarkness
*Loreleydatura
~LalaAdanwenB
~TheKitsuneEnigma
~easygrip
~paleolitik
~Melly302
=Lar-Ki

Club Resources:
Below is a list of reputable journals and resources on archaeology. If you know of any more, please leave details below. By reputable, I mean resources used by practicing archaeologists and academics, or places where archaeologists and academics publish research.

Antiquity [link]
Journal of East Asian Archaeology (JEAA) [link]
Journal of Field Archaeology [link]
Journal of Archaeological Science [link]
International Journal of Nautical Archaeology [link]
BritArch [link]
Nature Magazine [link]

About the team leader
My name is Jacq, I am a 25 year old Aussie archaeologist, have been facinated with past cultures all my life, and had decided both my career, and my university by the time I was 14. My Honours topic was on the burial practice in Bronze and Iron Age Thai prehistory, of "killing" weapons for internment. The first archaeologists to come across this artefact behaviour gave the explanation that the weapons were ritualistically mutilated for burial, and no one has done any research since. *rubs hands in glee* absolutely facinating! My areas of interest are Bronze and Iron Age cultures in Asia, continental Europe, and South America, and my facination is with weaponry, metallurgy and warfare. I worked for an archaeology consultancy for a time after I finished uni, but now I work in IT cos I like to eat. Im planning on going back to uni soonish (year or two) and do my Masters (stupid finances).. My dA accounts are =obsidiantears83 ~obsidianstamps and ~obsidiantearstock