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Quarry
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Lead mining landscape at Gunnerside, N Yorkshire (c) John Doe
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Kulturen, Lund, Sweden
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Scotland Street School Museum, Glasgow
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Rockfleet Castle, County Mayo, Ireland
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Historic Jamestown
The SPMA was founded in 1966 with the aim of promoting the archaeology of late medieval to industrial society in Britain, Europe and those countries influenced by European colonialism. The Society now covers the archaeology of the period up to the present day. To achieve this aim the Society publishes the triannual journal Post-Medieval Archaeology, and a twice yearly newsletter, as well as regular monographs, and holds conferences and meetings.
News
Conference: The Archaeology of the 19th and 20th centuries
Thursday 17 April 2014
The German Society of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology is holding a conference on ‘The Archaeology of the 19th and 20th centuries’ at the Free University, Berlin, on 6th - 8th October 2014
SPMA at the IfA
Monday 7 April 2014
Ireland in the Virginia Sea: comparative archaeologies of the early modern Atlantic world
Wednesday 12 March 2014
Events
Conference: Conflict in Context: Archaeologies of War 1618 - 1918
26 September — 28 September 2014
Paul Courtney Memorial Conference
18 October 2014
Publications
Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience and Permanence in New Found Lands
Edited by Peter Pope and Shannon Lewis-Simpson
Can we approach European expansion to the Americas and elsewhere without colonial triumphalism? A research strategy which automatically treats early establishments overseas as embryonic colonies produces predictable results: in retrospect, some were, some were not. Post-Medieval archaeology has much to contribute to our understanding of the gradual drift of ordinary people - the cast of thousands, anonymous or almost-forgotten behind the famous names of history.