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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: October 2007

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Tuesday, October 30, 2007. No write-up at the moment, but here are some pictures from digging last Friday. Unfortunately, I wasn 't there, so I. Ll just have to take an educated guess at what. S going on, and any holes can be filled in by Cameron. S post on how the day went. The Watusi, now our primary focus for the dig (we hope to get it out by the end of the semester), as there remains far too much of the elephant 's fleshy stuff. Ll have to wait and see.

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: Digging down through the layers: Stratigraphy at Parc Safari

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Saturday, October 15, 2011. Digging down through the layers: Stratigraphy at Parc Safari. Week Three for Team Danger was pretty exciting. After locating Magic's remains in a test pit during our second excavation, we arrived at the field eager to see exactly what Group B had been able to uncover. We were not disappointed. Colin was eventually able to expose it, but time was running out. As the day was coming to an end, we knew we were not even close to getting t...

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: Bye Magic!

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Thursday, November 3, 2011. The humerus was covered by layers of thick black plastic which needed to be cut out bit by bit with a pocket knife. This was slow going and kept two people busy for the entire field day, a lesson in how difficult it can be to budget time in the field when unforeseen problems arise. We eventually removed the humerus! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ignorance is not Bliss.

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: November 2007

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Monday, November 12, 2007. Week 8: Cleanup and Wrapup. Sadly, this week marks the last week of excavation until next season. It has gotten too cold and too dark for us to get much more done, and so we packed up our shovels and buckets, took our final mapping measurements, hopped in the van, and headed back to McGill. Real quick, here are some pictures from our last day:. Above: The white you see is, for the first time at our site, not fat. It's ice. Above: The ...

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: November 2008

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Monday, November 3, 2008. Week 7: Four Skulls, One Pit. The skeletal elements were so tortuously intertwined that we had to make an elevation map of some of the most prominent osseous artifacts (can you figure out I’m running out of synonyms for bones? Carrie Herzog's map of Grave 2. Beginning to bail out. Avoiding the back dirt piles. PVC pipe and mandibles. a common archaeological pairing. More of the carnage. Bones and water table. The infamous ram skull.

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: Ignorance is not Bliss

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Saturday, November 19, 2011. Ignorance is not Bliss. When most people think of archaeology, they think about the exciting stuff; digging in an exotic place, discovering amazing artifacts, and bringing them back as trophies of a job well done. But rarely do people stop to think about the correct way to treat artifacts. Should we, as archaeologists, take as much as we can find and leave nothing behind for those that come in the future? In The Economist. (2002).

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: Up Close and Personal with Magic

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Sunday, October 23, 2011. Up Close and Personal with Magic. At this time, it had started raining, some of us (I’m thinking of Ashley here, who, for some reason, always seems to have it worse than all of us - remember field walking through the meters tall reeds? The vertebras. This required the skull to be lifted lightly in order to dislodge them. Not an easy task considering the size and weight of it but a successful one. Lastly, I just wanted to include a pict...

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: October 2008

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Thursday, October 30, 2008. Week 6: No silly, ribs can't have teeth. Grave 2, "The Glory". David This is impolite. Like a puzzle, but with way more bones. And muck. Lots of muck. Bonekrusher, resisting the urge to crush bone. A hoof and longbone beside a partially exposed ram horn? Bones for walking like zebra. Please Colin, teach us more! Dispite the keen interest of the diggers, the sun had had enough for the day. Week 5: Neha's Recounting. The glorious bird ...

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course: October 2011

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McGill Archaeological Field Methods Course. Thursday, October 27, 2011. Errey Day I'm Shov-vellin! The day started off pretty fantastically, I came up with a brilliant pun (seen above) based off of LMFAO’s single “Party Rockers Theme” and was busy shuffling around with spade in hand. I was very excited that day because it was Octoberfest and I was looking forward to going to the bar smelling like rancid pachyderm. During the car ride to the site (I was riding shot gun! Chippindale, C. (Eds.), Han...Roska...