tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39163234149227590712024-03-04T20:33:19.264-08:00JORDAN 2010 GARP Dig Daily report from the Great Arab Revolt Project in Jordan in October/November 2010Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-3605497269292636052013-04-10T01:23:00.002-07:002013-04-10T01:23:08.463-07:00GARP 2013 Season now recruiting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We are recruiting for the 2013 season in Jordan and have a few places remaining. For full details of the dig this year please see the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/GARP2013" target="_blank">2013 Prospectus</a></div>
Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-89349753664559393422010-11-13T01:05:00.000-08:002010-11-13T01:05:52.624-08:00Aside - an essential tool...<object height="344" style="background-image: url(http://i2.ytimg.com/vi/qZgg8Zrh9Dk/hqdefault.jpg);" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qZgg8Zrh9Dk?fs=1&hl=en_GB"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qZgg8Zrh9Dk?fs=1&hl=en_GB" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br />
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RogRoger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-90875607726872625952010-11-06T08:44:00.000-07:002010-11-06T10:24:39.211-07:00Day 12 - Rest day and plans for the future<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Some pictures of Wadi Musa, the town in which we stay and the entrance to the ruins at Petra.Wadi Musa means "Moses' Wadi' and is supposed to be the place that he struck the rock and water came out.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <b>Having more or less completed our investigation of the war along the railway line between Ma’amn and Mudawarra, this season sees the effective conclusion of the first phase of GARP’s fieldwork. In relation to it, we will now moving, slowly but surely, towards final publication in the fm of a full monograph. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>So where do we go from here in the field? There is much discussion to be had. But preliminary thinking is this. The old road from Aqaba to Ma’an represents a different landscape, a different kind of war, and yet one which was heavily contested and is well recorded in written sources. To investigate it comprehensively, and to use the material evidence in the landscape to build a full picture of the nature of the war, is likely to require another five years of field work. Bring it on!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
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</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>At the same time we would like to develop a strong relationship with our new Turkish colleagues who have the skills and opportunity to support the field research with archive based research in Istanbul. In Jordan, a missing element so far has been the involvement of Jordanian students and ordinary Jordanian communities. We hope to put right these omissions in the second phase of the work.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br />
</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Finally, we hope to engage the Jordanian authorities in developing new heritage tourism assets related to the Great Arab Revolt and Lawrence of Arabia’s war. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Interim blog - some pictures of Wadi Musa, the town in which we stay and the entrance to the ruins at Petra.Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-856307505846584072010-11-05T08:46:00.000-07:002010-11-17T08:19:37.864-08:00Day 11 - Last day in the desert<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Py6QcxCTS87BmjMgjpVyavy11UZCukYP5fLFjW8sg7cor26iU4zGA4CasAcHvdghAAWcoFp_rmagxgv461KYEx3yOPlqEv2jmhfSP0H-XNzi24uiZC9XcoemjYU-H2nZqE19Pqe5vVM/s1600/$fri5th0005.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9Py6QcxCTS87BmjMgjpVyavy11UZCukYP5fLFjW8sg7cor26iU4zGA4CasAcHvdghAAWcoFp_rmagxgv461KYEx3yOPlqEv2jmhfSP0H-XNzi24uiZC9XcoemjYU-H2nZqE19Pqe5vVM/s400/$fri5th0005.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">A fast day of recording completed our season with work at the Southern encampment at Tel el Shahm and the northern most of 3 forts north of Ramlah. This turned out to a better constructed fortification than anticipated with deeply cut stand-up trenches which allowed the Ottoman soldiers to shoot from exterior ground level loop holes. Also the central feature turned out to be a deeply cut dugout where finds including cigarette papers implied that soldiers had used this as living quarters. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Our Turkish colleague Adil etc joined us for our last day in the field to get a sense of the landscape and the Ottoman military features within it. Being a historian he declined to excavate the sand out of his forbear’s trenches but disappeared into the desert in a search for other forts. Who should he bump into but our landscape archaeologist coming in the other direction. This minor combined forces expedition successfully located yet another lost late Ottoman fort in the desert.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Further south towards the station a rocky outcrop which was full of wind blown sand and modern debris yielded no new finds for the detectorists. However just beyond that on the plain several faint features, tent rings and smaller circles, produced Ottoman coins. Also across the whole of the site a number of incoming 303 rounds have now been found, indicating clearly British/Arab forces attack.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Everyone is now really tired. Also a certain amount of desert madness has set in evidenced by the formation of the First Goofa Rifles outside the brick structure. Having shifted several cubic metres of sand this splendid team deserved their success being preserved for posterity on this blog. </div><div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Tomorrow is a rest day and many of the team are going on a site seeing trip to the battlefield at Tafilah and the crusader castle at Kerak. There will be a final blog from this season tomorrow, and we will report on future plans for the development and continuation of this project.</div>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-1620531823768517712010-11-04T13:09:00.000-07:002010-11-04T13:24:09.531-07:00Day 10 – Work continues and a new colleague<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">A new dimension to the project opened today with the arrival on site of our Turkish colleague, Adil Bakhtiaya from the university of Istanbul. Adil joined us and Jordan colleagues for lunch at the Al-Hussein Bin Talal University and then visited with us two Ottoman cemeteries in Ma’an. We are exploring ways in which research into the Ottoman archives in Turkey can fill in crucial gaps in our knowledge of the Great Arab Revolt in Southern Jordan. </div><br />
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The Son of Hasan of Aleppo, From Damascus<br />
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Second one is from this season and is one of several taken from the helicopter. At about 11 seconds in there is a view of some typical Ottoman Army camp tent rings, still present from their defence of the railway during the First World War.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">At Tel el Shahm the team was today divided into 5 groups this morning. The first group stayed there and field walked the area to the south towards the station. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The field walkers and detectorists uncovered a variety of metal finds associated with the military occupation, both at the site of the tent rings and towards the railway itself. Also around the base of the southern side of the hilltop on which the fortification stands a major prehistoric site is clearly in evidence, proving a very excited find for David Thorpe and the team members present there today. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The other four teams walked the remaining un-surveyed section of the Hijaz railway south to Mudawwara, in four separate portions. One began at the ruins of Ramlah station and headed south. Near the station was found 1 Mauser cartridge and the remains of a defensive crenulated ottoman trench about 100 metres east of the station. They then followed the line in earnest and immediately encountered a small hill adjacent to the east of the line. The hill had been trashed but from it looking south we saw several parallel rows of tent rings at right angles to the railway line. About 200 metres further east on a low ridge were three roughly circular fine sand areas which are redolent of mule lines. Returning west to the railway we found several more rows of tent circles. Then, following the line to the south, where after about one kilometre to the east of the line, several more rows of tent rings were encountered on low ridges. All these features were systematically recorded in terms of their GPS location, sketch maps and photographs. This pattern continued for another two kilometres at various locations, always to the east of the line. Basically after a days walking they had covered 4 kilometres of the planned 12, having been ambushed by the incredible high density of relevant features. Roughly about 7 camp sites and 80 or more tent rings, some of which were almost certainly prehistoric. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The second team started from the outskirts of Mudawwara and went north towards the others with the aim of meeting half way. Leaving Mud with the brilliant green irrigated fields to the east, we entered a wide flat plain that rose gently to a low red sandstone hill that was heavily fortified with blockhouses and round towers. An old railway cutting about 300m in length was seen to the west of the line, and this was also recorded. Continuing to follow the railway line to the north, their attention was captured by a prominent hill 400 metres to the west of the line. Around the base of this was a tent ring encampment with around 35 rings and a network of footpaths leading down to the line. A steep rock cut path led to the top of the hill where a walled enclosure formed a hill top fortification. The walls survived to about 2 metres in height and contained loopholes. The fort completely dominated the landscape. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The discoveries by these two teams typified the day – there is clearly a wealth of hitherto undiscovered and not yet investigated features on this sector of the railway. It looks like we will have our work cut out for the remaining years of the project to examine and record these amazing remnants of the Great Arab Revolt.</div><div><br />
</div>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-78080276684907186552010-11-01T10:12:00.000-07:002010-11-01T10:17:50.256-07:00Day 7 - Back to the Desert/Neil on Jordanian Breakfast TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRRg5gvx4yAkb6P6TCGQqDn2FYVRWnibvSyZslOYFAuAHFMzoqYi5yicoQqMpaRVVRYp9WiMRSanHI1KuUr1Ror0WHdsHzjCuYj7TooABLguEK4SY_D_yrw-yYtoTzR3a1r2O0_7PnGyo/s1600/P1010388310043.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRRg5gvx4yAkb6P6TCGQqDn2FYVRWnibvSyZslOYFAuAHFMzoqYi5yicoQqMpaRVVRYp9WiMRSanHI1KuUr1Ror0WHdsHzjCuYj7TooABLguEK4SY_D_yrw-yYtoTzR3a1r2O0_7PnGyo/s400/P1010388310043.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">After a day exploring Petra and Wadi Musa the team headed back into the deep desert today to continue work on the standing building and the three sets of tent rings about 5 km from it. The building lies about an hour and a quarter’s drive from Wadi Musa and the rings about 5 minutes further down both being slightly to the west of the Hijaz railway. The blockhouse is clearly visible from the road, but the rings are only easily found by fieldwalking or from the air.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This part of the desert doesn’t have the epic grandeur of other places we have worked, such as Wadi Rutm or Fassuah Ridge, with their sweeping sandy vistas and magnificent views over the Belly of the Beast. (Batn Al Ghooul). It has its own special nature though, as all of our sites do, in this case characterised by slight rolling dips and troughs, which are often steeper than they appear to be when travelling across them. Also the landscape here has occasional small outcrops of rock crystal, glistening in the desert sun. This appears sometimes to have been collected by workers or soldiers, as there is often a collection of small pieces near the tent rings or round about. Not much to do out here for recreation – maybe collecting bright shiny bits from the desert was a usual pastime…</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">However this expectation was blown away in an afternoon by the projects ace metal detectorists who uncovered a wealth of military paraphernalia including two army officers’ seals, Ottoman coins and other items implying high ranking military presence rather than railroad navvies. A quick investigation by some of the diggers also discovered some fragments of army uniform, and this site looks very promising indeed. </div><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> The isolated blockhouse on the railway has been meticulously recorded by our standing building survey team, revealing a series of building phases, starting with original construction, continuing through wartime modification, and culminating in both recent restoration work and also recent military training use. An interesting feature of the archaeology o this structure is the recent air force graffiti including representations of fighter jets and military roundels and insignia. </div><br />
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The second set of rings at this site is proving so interesting that we will return to revisit this site on Monday, when a proper archaeological excavation of them will be undertaken.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">On the way back from the desert today we were unexpectedly invited by our Jordanian friend and colleague Mansour and his wife Aklas to stop off at their house for some tea and snacks. What a lovely surprise it turned out to be, and far more than snacks! An amazing array of food cooked and wonderfully presented was laid out before 26 sand weary and dusty archaeologists. The spread was truly splendid and we would all like to express our heartfelt thanks to Mansour and Aklas for their fantastic hospitality. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally here is a photograph of the group standing in front of the military helicopter some of us were privileged to have flown in the other day.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-50121284791020514262010-10-29T12:23:00.000-07:002010-10-30T12:14:33.768-07:00Day 4 - Freedom Fighters blow up railway. Neolithic debris in camp remains.Two significant sets of very interesting related discoveries today.<br />
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Several pieces of explosively fractured rail from the Hijaz line were found today by a small team working on new tent rings in the flat plain between the upper region of Tel el Shahm and the station on that line. We know that there was an attack by Lawrence and Arab forces on this station and these fragments are almost certainly remnants of this. We also know that several large bombs were dropped at this site, and indeed fragments of such dating exactly from the time were found as well.<br />
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Then, in the area we have been working in up until now known as ‘downstairs’ more discoveries and conclusions were being made.<br />
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Jordanian pre-history experts consulted urgently by mobile phone from the site today confirmed the teams suspicions the Ottoman military camp at Tel el Shahm represent re-use of a Neolithic village.<br />
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First we had 2000 year old rock art. Then, we get six thousand year old hut circles. The tent rings consisting of large uprights turn out to be deeply embedded and in one case associated with three fragments of worked flint. We now have evidence that this site ws used in the Neolithic, the Thamoudic/Nabatean, medieval, First World War and more recent periods., including recently by the Jordanian Army. The newly discovered Neolithic site at Tel el Shahm is a first for this region of Southern Jordan. The complexity and completeness of the archaeological sequence at Tel el Shahm is truly extraordinary.<br />
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</div>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-24793303165600739462010-10-27T11:46:00.000-07:002010-10-27T11:50:08.435-07:00Day 2 – Forts, camps, viaducts and rock artFirst thing this morning after arriving at Tel el Shahm we headed towards the nearby lower portions of the rocky outcrop adjacent to the larger hill where the hilltop fortifications lie. Zeyad, one of our local academic historians, showed us some amazing rock art, dating from between the 4th century BC and the first century AD. He had discovered this only the day before, and it is previously unrecorded. Later he and Roger spent some time scrambling over the entire north face of these rocks at various levels, sliding and barely staying upright, to find over 40 examples of these incredible pieces of ancient art. And in the middle on the top of the rocky platform there remains an ancient carved gaming table, truly amazing to find in this otherwise conflict landscape.<br />
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A four person survey team today walked northwards from Tel el Shahm fort towards back towards Wadi Rutm. Our aim was to find out whether there were intermediate military posts between the two stations. There were. We found a fort beside each of two viaducts, one of 20 arches, the other of 14. These clearly were vulnerable targets. The first fort, by the 20 span viaduct comprised a rectangular breastwork and rampart located on a slight rise that was intervisible with both Tel el Shahm and Wadi Rutm fort. The second by the 14 span viaduct was also located on a rise and comprised a small square enclosure, a small circular enclosure and a length of about 100 metres of trench between the two. This too was intervisible with both Tel el Shahm and Wadi Rutm forts.<br />
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The survey has therefore confirmed that the Ottoman counter insurgency strategy involved a line of intervisible defended points that also between them ensured that the entire railway line was under observation.<br />
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Work at the sit at Tel el Shahm throughout the day, in over 90 degrees of heat with little or no breeze to keep the flies away or mitigate its effect. On the top of the rocky outcrop where the remains of the standing buildings are being investigated (the place we now refer to as ‘upstairs’) recording continued apace. Just getting to this part of the site has proved challenging. With the steep, sandy, stony ascent the team arrive breathless at the top, but unbowed. The very nature of the terrain means that every foot placement made is precarious, and the normal recording methodology is made much more difficult for this.<br />
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One great find of the day was a small Ottoman button which probably came from a shirt epaulette, and was made by Nina our latest Jordanian recruit, who found it eyes only while sitting in a tent ring. So far the finds count at Tel el Shahm has been very low, significantly lower than previous years at similar sites and mush lower than anticipated here. However we have found some other Ottoman army uniform buttons, and in an unusually shaped and positioned feature to one side of the main lower camp with direct line of site to the station on the Hijaz line an Ottoman coin was unearthed, confirming together with the button the presence of the counter insurgency foces.Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-18715069181617710312010-10-26T11:21:00.000-07:002010-10-27T21:45:45.541-07:00Day 1 Far South Adventure Begins<div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Tel el Shahm station is one of the southern most stops on the Hijaz railway, and it and it’s environs are known to be the site of a insurgent’s battle with the static Ottoman forces. The station itself is fortified with block houses and trenches, but we have decided to explore a position about a mile to the north consisting of a spectacular hilltop defended position with a well defined encampment, rather than the station itself. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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This season much of the bulk technical equipment is travelling in it's flight cases with the pioneer group, with the hope that any delays that happen in processing the paperwork on entering Jordan can be absorbed by the two day gap. This will be a great help if so and should enable us to hit the ground running with the metal detecting team from the first full dig day, which is scheduled for Tuesday 26th October.<br />
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That is also the date on which this years GARP BLOG will properly commence, and I will be bringing daily reports with images, descriptions and tales of our experiences and finds to all our worldwide followers via this medium.<br />
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So, please either check back regularly, or indeed follow us using one of the fed methods at the bottom of the blog. It promises to be yet another fascinating season, with exciting finds, new discoveries and theories and much more of the unravelling of the mysteries of Lawrence, the Arab and Allied forces and their opposition along the route of the Hijaz railway during World War 1.Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-79877992827788400742010-10-05T06:35:00.000-07:002010-10-05T09:00:34.772-07:00New magazine launched - Military Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2OG7HHNPQnpnLY9NlxkMxvbhKu-yVdFkZw1Vp5ggxXCTYa_9oyNgFzAAQaMGmBzZzvCYFZpwYSYy2p_UoB5R8WvzaWW-Ln3qhePZZSriYqoEZjV5ha9o2X11Rug7v2Bqh5dv4XJeEj0/s1600/Neil-new-MT-copy-e1282828680376-300x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2OG7HHNPQnpnLY9NlxkMxvbhKu-yVdFkZw1Vp5ggxXCTYa_9oyNgFzAAQaMGmBzZzvCYFZpwYSYy2p_UoB5R8WvzaWW-Ln3qhePZZSriYqoEZjV5ha9o2X11Rug7v2Bqh5dv4XJeEj0/s200/Neil-new-MT-copy-e1282828680376-300x300.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>One of the GARP Directors is now Editor of a brand new magazine - <b>MILITARY TIMES</b><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">"Welcome to the first issue of Military Times, the new monthly magazine dedicated to answering the big questions of military history. The aim is not only to bring you action-packed narrative, but to provide all the technical detail, in-depth analysis, and cutting-edge controversy you need to understand not just what happened, but also why. Military Times aims to bridge the gap between the general reader and the world of professional soldiers and military historians.</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Our main focus will be British military history and the period after 1914. But we will also cover big stories from other eras and parts of the world. And whatever the subject, we will be drilling down beneath the surface. Who were the great commanders, and how did they win? What actually happens on the battlefield, and how do soldiers cope? Are the principles of strategy and tactics unchanging? How do revolutions in warfare happen?</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">These questions matter because the study of war matters. Fascinating in itself, it has shaped the whole of history, and continues to remake the world today. This is the magazine for everyone who wants to understand war, past and present, in all its dimensions."</span></i><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Neil Faulkner</span></i><br />
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The magazine may be viewed via the link in the list on the right.<br />
There is also a Facebook page <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Military-Times-Magazine/141956399161093">here.</a>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-15970058113497283472010-05-09T08:19:00.000-07:002010-05-09T08:19:26.603-07:00Places still available for the 2010 Season in Jordan<h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span style="font-size: small;">Places still available on GARP 2010 dig - see main web site for info.<br />
<a href="http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "f02f9", event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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or click below for the prospectus</span> <span style="font-size: small;"><br />
<a href="http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/prospectus/Prospectus%202010.pdf" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "f02f9", event);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/prospectus<wbr></wbr>/Prospectus%202010.pdf</a></span> </h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks</span></h6><h6 class="uiStreamMessage"><span style="font-size: small;">Roger</span></h6>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3916323414922759071.post-21725485462887017542010-02-06T14:34:00.001-08:002010-10-05T06:07:10.967-07:00GARP web site updated<h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white;">GARP web site just updated to include the CWA article by Anna Gow and Lisa Corti, (in Reports Section) and three articles by Neil Dearberg (in new History Notes section) giving his Australian perspective.</span></span></span></h3><h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message" data-ft="{"type":"msg"}" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="UIStory_Message"><br />
<a href="http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/" onmousedown="UntrustedLink.bootstrap($(this), "babc8a5d94e405360785f7b7672605e3", event)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.jordan1914-18archaeology.org/</a></span></span></h3>Roger Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03194599375075414563noreply@blogger.com0