We thought we’d start 2024 with something really different!  In several of our 2023 sessions we looked at the different ways archaeologists record what they find.  In a fitting start to the New Year we looked at the new ways we can use technology to digitally record and spread the news of the latest archaeological discoveries as they happen!

MAYA volunteer Caroline Pathy-Barker led the session where she showed us how to make an Archaeological Blog!  We started out by thinking about the sorts of questions we might need to include, and then split up into groups to carry out mini-interviews with other members.  We then uploaded them to a special app where we can edit them and include music.  Eventually we hope we can continue to make blogs of future sessions, especially when we’re out and about, and upload them to our MAYA website!

This was an exciting session as it also including a visit by Rebecca Jacobs from YAC HQ who is doing an Impact Study on how our members feel about being part of a YAC club.  Only seven clubs have been chosen throughout the country to take part and MAYA is one of them!  Rebecca brought along activity sheets for our members to fill in and talked to them about what they enjoyed about being a members and the sort of things they would like to do in future sessions.  We got some really good feedback from our members which was fantastic!

A big thank you to Caroline for running such an interesting session and to Rebecca for coming to visit us.  We look forward to hearing from her again when she has finished the study.