Orkney Archaeology Review

ed G George Vickers witiht with David Drewer Orkrne Orkney Archaeology Socieityt Society Annua Annually

£7 ppp141 pp144 pb

For many years the Easter Island Foundation, based in California, has published a newsletter. It began as four pages of notes and soon grew into the quarterly Rapa Nui Journal, with research articles, archaeological news and island gossip. Aimed particularly at former visitors, it became both a forum for airing topical issues and a record of change. Britain may be unique in the number of archaeological societies it has, most of them publishing regional journals (see feature Sep/Oct 2011/ 120). But the Orkney Archaeology Review is

different – and more like the Pacific newsletter. With a compact, handbook feel, illustrated in colour, it has an eye on both archaeologists (of whom there are many in Orkney, not counting visitors) and an interested non-specialist public. Articles describe new fieldwork (seven research digs in 2018 by the islands university alone), an Iron Age wooden bowl, cathedral graffiti, visitor experiences and more. Add local news, and lifetime subscriptions from visitors nostalgic for their long-past trips will be secured.