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2013
April
09/04/2013
The community of Merthyr Tydfil is premiering a new opera Ynys Gwydr: The Island of Glass, telling a little-known story from its early medieval history this weekend.
08/04/2013
Cardiff archaeologists help public recreate earliest art at Festival of Neuroscience
Cardiff University archaeologists are leading a creative drop-in activity at a national festival that will engage families and children in the earliest art known to mankind.
A Cardiff historian has helped to shape a new Story of Wales-inspired educational resource for young people in Wales and beyond just launched online.
Young people from North Ely Youth Centre have created a striking new mural to signpost a new heritage trail that will soon be developed around the Caerau Iron Age hillfort.
27/03/2013
Have you ever wondered how Archaeologists use Science to investigate the past?
To quiz the experts come to Archaeological Science ‘Question Time’
Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre, Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales.
Thursday evening April 11th 2013, at 7pm [FREE]
A team of twelve Cardiff archaeology students are now undertaking a geophysical survey at the Roman town of Caerwent in South East Wales [project: 6th-13th April 2013].
March
14/03/2013
The people of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, discovered what the Romans did for them on a recent visit to Cardiff University's conservation department.
06/03/2013
An Archaeology finalist is one of 25 lucky young people to take part in the 2013 Women of the World (WOW) Festival in London on Saturday 9th March in a partnership between Cardiff University and the Southbank Centre.
February
07/02/2013
Heritage projects invest in community and help raise aspirations
Two new projects based around one of Cardiff’s most important, but little-known, archaeological sites, Caerau Iron Age hillfort, will engage local people and school children in their history and help challenge marginalisation.
01/02/2013
Half-term activities at Cardiff Story inspired by hidden local history
Half Term Activities: Monday 11th Feb to Friday 15th Feb [11.30am-1pm]
Plus CAER Heritage Project Exhibition: 7 Feb – 6 March, Cardiff Story
January
NATURE came to the Experimental Archaeology Conference at Cardiff [11/12 January 2013] and made a podcast about the conference, its evolving subject and Cardiff's Guerrilla Archaeology .... have a listen!
http://www.nature.com/nature/podcast/
A research and training project that has revealed remarkable new evidence for the Roman legionary fortress of Isca at Caerleon has been nominated for a prestigious national award.
19/01/2013
Theatr Soar, Merthyr Tydfil - Saturday 16th February 2013 at 11.00 am