On the 8th of November the department of archaeology are organising a postgraduate conference, Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group on the theme Theory in action, see abstract below. The keynote speaker is Kenneth Brophy who will give a paper with the title From Hard to Soft: Theory and Neolithic Studies in Scotland. We have speakers from different universities in Scotland and UK.  A full program will soon be published on our webpage: www.gla.ac.uk/departments/archaeology/newslinks/stag/
We would like to invite all members of Glasgow Archaeological Society to attend this event.

  The 2008 digging season is underway in Pollok Country Park, and has hit the BBC Scotland News pages on the BBC Website.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7465891.stm

Although the story is focused on the Go-ape proposals it does bring much wanted publictiy for GAS and the Univerisity's department.

  M74 Dig

The M74 Dig is underway with excavations happening on three main sites along the route of the M74 extension.

Over the next few months a series of lectures and opendays will be happening.

Check out the main M74 Completion website for full details.

www.m74completion.com

  Our 150th aniversary excavation is underway on the Pollok Estate, Glasgow, During the Last two weeks in July.

Photographs of the site have been posted in the Gallery.  If any member has photographs of work in progress, and would like to see them on the website please email them to stephen, webmaster@glasarchsoc.org.uk.