I can never force my self to post the pictures in reverse order.
So If you want to follow the progression of the day you must start on page three and work your way forward. Hope you all enjoy the pictures.
Well the moment of truth is at hand. I'm meeting the Cultural Survey Consultant and the Chesterfield County Archaeologist at the site next Tuesday the 31st.
But the consultant's professional pride seems to be on shaky ground, he & his client are a little prickly:
Sean, we are arranging for a meeting up at the site on 31 January 2006, which is next Tuesday. Can you make it then? Would you be able to bring the artifacts along? Also, our client asks how you came to know that developm
Ok, so I just had a brief hick-up as it is now discovered that the new owner and permit requestor is not Hanson Aggregates but a company named Buckhorn, LLC but that cloud has passed without event...
Here is the a copy of the e-mail that the Archaeologist from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History sent to the South Carolina Department of Health-Mining:
Marianna,
I just received a couple of emails concerning a very important/significant sounding site that I believe ma
Here is a string of e-mails from the last 24 hours in regards to my archaeological crusade:
#1: Sean:
I have contacted a former student of mine, Chad Long, who now works for the SC SHPO. Being an insider and one who may feel some indebtedness, Chad will, hopefully, puruse your request!
Let me know how it all pans out.
Tom Whyte
#2: Sean,
Tom Whyte forwarded your email to him regarding an archaeological site in SC. Our office might be able to help. Please send me the gener
Recieved this from Dr. Whyte just now:
Dear Sean:
I would be happy to send a letter to Jon Leader. The pictures you sent are of artifacts dating (mostly) to the mid-Holocene (Middle Archaic, Morrow Mountain points). I must have seen others if I said Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. What kind of landform is the site on? Has it been plowed? If so, do you think there may be preserved parts of the site below the plow zone? What is the estimated site size? These things may halp me argue the c
Amazingly enough, Dr. Leader replied yesterday afternoon after I had left my office:
** High Priority **
Hi Sean,
Please write me a formal letter outlining every bit of information you have concerning the archaeological resources on site. Make sure that you include the total number and forms of artifacts collected from the property. Photographs would not hurt. Understand that a single point out of context will not cut it. Please contact Dr. Whyte to write a letter of support for the
Yesterday I posted an image in the Gallery of an Paleo-Indian spear point I found in South Carolina in 1991. Unfortunately during the Holidays I have come to learn that a portion of the land where I found that and other artifacts is in grave danger...
I will let this e-mail I just sent to the Director of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology explian:
Dear Dr. Leader,
I am writing to you and the SCIAA in general with an urgent plea for help.
There is an enda
I really need to do an exhaustive study on this issue...
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/vol...s/fig04_240.jpg
As you can see, this image is from an academic source on the Celtiberians. The caption for the photo claims it to be Numatian from the 1st Century BC. Well, that may have been the location and strata where it finally laid, but that is Anatolin Greek Geometric if I've ever seen it. The 2 vulture motif goes back to days of Catal Huyuk...
I really hate seeing these thing
As a few of you already know, I am an unashamed beer aficionado. My love for beer coupled with my love for ancient history and literature often motivates me to search for anecdotes within ancient sources that deal with the sublime beverage.
Recently I came across something that I honestly admit, I did not know before. I have no doubt that Pertinax is well versed in this but apparently, the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all highly esteemed cabbage as the number one remedy for hangovers.
So this past Saturday we had a baby shower for my sister and it was a wonderful occasion because we had all siblings together (me, my older brother & his family, & my 2 sisters); which won
So the other weekend I (as well as some other folks) went up to Black Mountain, NC to visit my sister. We spent most of Saturday doing some Christmas shopping around the town shops.
In one of the antique shops we went into, there was a little box of stuff on the front counter that I usually don't bother to look at in a store: 'Arrowheads'
I have quite a few, but they have all been found by me or in a few cases my great uncle. I've never really felt driven to pick through a box and pay m
"Artifact Context" - This is an issue that has always nagged at me. However, while researching one of my current lines of investigation, the whole concept of artifact context and how it's used (and abused?) has begun to really bother me.
This unease is by no means a mark of me joining the 'Orthodoxy Disparagers' club... however, in regards to common practices related to artifact context I really have to take issue.
I've tried to find recent papers on the subject (because it's been a whil
