Immersive cave art (Tehnas family, 2021)
Bake or make a creation inspired by archaeology!
Knit a scale bar, bake artefact biscuits, model a monument, the only limit is your imagination.
Post your entry on the NAW Facebook page, Twitter or Instagram and remember to include the hashtag #2022NAW and a brief description of your entry. In 2022, we have a special prize for under 18s, so if you have a crafty young person, please encourage them to get involved, and let us know in your entry description who did the making/baking!
Vote for your favourite entry for the People’s Choice award.
The competition will be open from Sunday 1 May 2022 to Saturday 21 May 2022.
Download the poster here. And if you are looking for inspiration, Dr Emma Rehn has made a series of free archaeology-themed crochet patterns available, especially for NAW. Find them on Ravelry here.
The prizes will be drawn from a fantastic selection of books generously donated by the authors, publishers and friends, including:
Stuart Bedford. 2006. Pieces of the Vanuatu Puzzle: Archaeology of the north, south and centre. ANU Press.
Stuart Bedford & Matthew Spriggs, eds. 2019. Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. ANU Press.
Caroline Bird and James W Rhoads. 2020. Crafting Country: Aboriginal Archaeology in the Eastern Chichester Ranges, Northwest Australia. Sydney University Press.
Geoffrey Clark & Mirani Litster (eds). 2022. Archaeological Perspectives on Conflict and Warfare in Australia and the Pacific. ANU Press.
Kieran Hosty. 2007. Dunbar 1857: Disaster on Our Doorstep. Australian National Maritime Museum. (Join the author for a NAW talk on 19 May - details here!)
Timothy D. Owen, Beth White & Jeffrey Newchurch. 2021. Kaurna Stone Artefacts: Some Methods of Analysis. GML Heritage.
Richard Tuffin, David Roe, Sylvana Szydzik, E. Jeanne Harris & Ashley Matic. 2021. Recovering Convict Lives: A Historical Archaeology of the Port Arthur Penitentiary. Sydney University Press. (Join Richard Tuffin for a NAW talk on 17 May - details here!)