"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
So it seems our intrepid Atlantic traders of the Bronze Age weren't satisfied with Iberia as the southern trade terminus; they ventured into the mid-Mediterranean...
There was a metal-centric trade network where (what I'll call) proto-Lusitanian/Tartessian traders linked up with Cypriot merchants through Nuragic-Sardinian intermediaries. Their Iberian jumping off point was where one might expect it; trading towns established on the coastal rivers closest to Pityusae & the Balearics.
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
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
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
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
So, I had a great time in Jamaica. Fabulous.
Getting there and back was an absolute nightmare as I had to end up renting a car to Ft. Lauderdale (from Atlanta = +9 hours) to be able to catch my flight and again on the return. That was not in the plan. Especially monetarily...
I came back this week to a flooded basement and a missing cat (luckily not for long) and a week long Advanced Engineering refresher that was really just a misuse of my time. Furthermore I am having to host a 30th Bi
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.
Instead of the usual video on the screen behind the performer projecting what is on stage, Beck had an elaborate marionette stage recreation (even with their own working stage screen behind them).
Every thing that occured on stage during the show was completely mimicked by the puppets, down to the smallest detail. Not least of which was when the band sat down for dinner on stage while Beck did a couple of acoustic songs...
The whole thing was clever, artistic, awesome and entirely hilar
Most of what I read and most of the new books I purchase is still focused on my long term primary project (novel...).
The secondary, somewhat big project right now would have to be my Ligurian article that's been in the hopper for months. Though it's mostly complete I've put it on the backburner. I became concerned with the simple fact that there is not much out there on the Ligurians (especially online) and I know that once it's published it will mostly likely draw those odd few people (li
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
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
