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AnonTechie writes:

A new site is attempting to put the enthusiasm and knowledge of amateur archaeologists and historians to work on current archaeological projects, with the help and guidance of professional academics.

MicroPasts, a joint project of University College London, the British Museum, and the Arts and Humanities Research Council, is a new hybrid site combining citizen science and crowdfunding under one umbrella.

“MicroPasts is a web platform that brings together full-time academic researchers, volunteer archaeological and historical societies and other interested members of the public to collaborate on new kinds of research about archaeology, history and heritage,” according to the site’s coordinators, including Chiara Bonacchi, Adi Keinan-Schoonbaert, Andrew Bevan, and Daniel Pett. “In particular, we want to improve how people traditionally distinguished as ‘academics,' ‘professionals,’ and ‘volunteers’ cooperate with one another (as well as with other people out there who as yet have no more than a passing interest).”

MicroPasts - Conducting, designing and funding research into our human past. http://micropasts.org

Portable Antiquities Scheme website: http://finds.org.uk

How does this work? - https://crowdfunded.micropasts.org/how-it-works