National Archaeology Week this year will be online, so you can join in from anywhere! Please remember to check the calendar as we add events to the nationwide program celebrating Australian archaeology and the work of Australian archaeologists. And keep an eye on the timezone too!

Prizes!

At the end of NAW this year, prestigious NAW prizes will be presented for four categories:

• Best online event or content.  As assessed by the NAW committee, based on three criteria – informative, engaging, technical/creative quality.

• People’s Choice.  Nominate and vote for your favourite via social media.  

• Bake It and Make It.  Bake a stratigraphic layer cake, french knit a scale bar, the only limit is your imagination.  Post a photo of your creation on the NAW FB page.

• Archaeology at Home.  You can take the archaeologist out of the field, but you can’t take the field out of the archaeologist.  Or something.  Share a glimpse into your working-from-home life, or apply your archaeological skills to your domestic duties.

The prizes will be selections from an awesome stack of books generously donated by the authors: Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies’ Sludge: Disaster on Victoria’s Goldfields, David Frankel‘s Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in Southeastern Australia, Alice Gorman's Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the future, Billy Griffiths’ Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia, Paul Irish’s Hidden In Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney, and Martin Porr & Jacqueline Matthews’ Interrogating Human Origins: Decolonisation and the Deep Human Past.

Smallprint:  The subject must relate to Australian archaeology and/or the work of Australian archaeologists.  The content doesn’t have to be created specifically for NAW, but you do need to let everyone know about it by including #2020NAW, sharing to the NAW social media and/or just dropping us a line.