{"id":5220,"date":"2026-10-13T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?p=5220"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:41:20","slug":"the-prehistoric-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?p=5220","title":{"rendered":"The Prehistoric Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Day in London:  A chance to meet up with some old friends from Southampton and Boxgrove. I&#8217;d been invited to The Prehistoric Society at Burlington House to recieve the Presidents Award for &#8220;outstanding contributions in communicating any aspect of deep human history to new and diverse audiences. &#8221;  Amazed to recieve the honour and very gratefull to the directors and others who put up with me interuppting the excavations to take photos and to all those diggers who I kept pestering for one more photo &#8211; hopefully one day I&#8217;ll get the new site back in order with names and evrything all added etc &#8211; thanks to Tess Machling  for the photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"659\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-659x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5222\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6435651466058003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-659x1024.jpg 659w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-768x1194.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-988x1536.jpg 988w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize-1200x1866.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/dave-pre-prize.jpg 1317w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day in London: A chance to meet up with some old friends from Southampton and Boxgrove. I&#8217;d been invited to The Prehistoric Society at Burlington House to recieve the Presidents Award for &#8220;outstanding contributions in communicating any aspect of deep human history to new and diverse audiences. &#8221; Amazed to recieve the honour and very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/?p=5220\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Prehistoric Society&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5224,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5220\/revisions\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archdiggers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}