I would hate to have missed the Lapita site by a few metres and have some other joker find it in a few year's time to much jollity among the archaeological community. The training is going well and the listproc is up and hesitatingly generating discussion and feedback on what we are doing which is genuinely useful. So keep checking in on the web site and every couple of days there should be something new and of interest on it as work progresses. Glenn Summerhayes is enjoying himself and our computer man, Robert Williams, a multimedia consultant, after a week or so somewhat dubious about the food, accommodation and our sanity, now seems to be settling in to an environment he is not at all accustomed to with gusto. The July edition of Telenor s No Barriers magazine, number 2 for 1998, includes on its back cover a write-up of the Pacific Archaeology Teaching Program, which was supported by Telenor and the Kon Tiki Museum.
Archaeology is about digging.
However, when you cannot take your students to the site, you bring your site to the students a web site. Introducing Virtual Archaeology. This year s recipient of the prestigious No Barriers Prize, Professor Matthew Spriggs of Australian National University in Canberra, intends to create a virtual excavation for his students. At the site Mangaasi on Efate Island in Vanuatu, formerly the New Hebrides, Professor Spriggs and his small crew will conduct the actual digging. Thanks to the prize money from Telenor International and the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Spriggs will be able to use the internet for communication with his students back in Canberra.