University of Sheffield Archaeology

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The University of Sheffield Archaeological Society is a student-run society at the University of Sheffield, the society is run on the principle of the study and practice of Archaeology and Anthropology. The society has been running for almost as long as the Archaeological Department at the University. This page is currently only relevant to the reformation of the society after the disintrest shown by previous years. The society is currently run as part of the University Students' Union.

1 Aims
2 Representation
- 2.1 Current and Past Committees
3 Activities
- 3.1 Workshops
4 Media Appearances
5 External

[edit] Aims

The mission of the society is to be dedicated to the study, practice and the occupation of Archaeology whilst supporting students in the Archaeological Department at the University of Sheffield. This is done through a successful series of lectures given by both internal and external speakers on a variety of topics, along with social events - most notably bar crawls.

[edit] Representation

The Society has an annually elected committee which is run by students from the university usually second year undergraduate archaeology students. However this was not in the case of the years 2006/2007 in which the society was run by first year students due to the society not being evident otherwise. The committee is currently run by a President, Vice-President, Secretary, two Treasurers, an Events Coordinator, a Publicity Officer, a sports rep and a web master.

[edit] Current and Past Committees

Position	2009/2010	2008/2009	2007/2008	2006/2007
President	Thea Howe	Alan Lewis	Sophie Day	Sophie Day & Jack Hiscock
Vice President	Emma Gray	None Elected	Jack Hiscock	None Elected (Not established)
Secretary	Caroline Gilbert	Laura Green	Claire Finn	Claire Finn
Treasurer	Michael Sully and Ed Morrow	Gwyneth Hill	None (Due to unexpected absence of previous incumbent)	Adam Wyett
Events Coordinator	Gareth Jones	(Social Secretaries:) Megan Arkell and Catherine Major	Nicola Austin & Alison Verona	None Elected (Not established)
Publicity Officer	Amy McCabe	None Elected (Not established)	None Elected (Not established)	None Elected (Not established)
Sports Rep	Jonathan Boffey	None Elected	None Elected (Not Established)	None Elected (Not Established)
Web Master	Alan Lewis	None Elected	Grieg Parker	Grieg Parker

Other discontinued positions First Year Rep, Post-Grad Rep, Workshop Coordinator (merged with social sec to produce events coordinator)

[edit] Activities

The Society operates with a variety of activities that are designed for both academic and recreational practice. Holding a lecture series that has had a number of significant archaeological names speak; such as Mike Parker-Pearson and Colin Richards.

The society participates in several union events and has been seen on the university RAG events and participates in intra mural sports events.

[edit] Workshops

The society cooperated with Heeley City Farm on a project to do a reconstruction of an Iron age Roundhouse receiving a small amount of publicity from this in the Yorkshire Post.<ref>{http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Curtain-up-on-roundhouse-that.4747296.jp}</ref>

[edit] Media Appearances

This year members of the society were shown in a recent Time Team Special on Stonehenge which followed the excavations of the Stonehenge Riverside Project.