Photo Contest Winner - The Table in the Trees

 

This is the area where we meet in the morning for breakfast and our evening meals after we have been working on a project. I photographed this area because I associate it with the peaceful and fun parts of the day. I also think this image portrays that.

J

Chris Warburton

31 May 2013

CHAT Poster

What a weekend! CHAT was amazing... really. How often do you hear those words after an event?

Here is the Storify board of the different tweets generated.

I signed up for Twitter... if you know me you know just how ridiculous that sounds! I did it though. As you may recall, I 'presented' a poster at the event. As there was not a designated posters session, they would only be up for people to view throughout the conference, I needed a way for some kind of interaction. I thought by adding a Twitter hashtag (#Belonging), I might get some kind of response.

Well .... none yet .... via Twitter anyway.

As I promised:

Anxiety Before CHAT

Currently, I am gearing up for the upcoming CHAT conference London at UCL. I will be taking a poster aimed at showing how belonging has been situated in other fields of research, to get people to think about how to situate the theory of belonging into an archaeological context. Unfortunately,  though there is very little room for interaction as the posters will only hang in the common area, but authors will not be given a chance to present the information, so there is little room for interpersonal interaction. I am not quite done hashing out the finer details, so I will wait until after the conference.

Something to look forward to...

A 7-UP Bottle Mystery - SOLVED

This morning I worked to try and find a specific date for the following 7-UP bottle.


7-UP Bottle

 Fortunetly, there has been some good work done to chronical the earlier bottle varieties for the brand. This particular example seems to be quite modern...

WOW.

Even as I was writing and trying to find the updated bottle makers website, the site led me to a seperate page about Anchor Hocking. The page then linked to an outside souce for reading the botttle bases of bottles from the 1960s and 70s.

Orignially from Dick Cole (fruitjar.org).

Until this point I had suspected the soda bottle was from 1976, but with the handy identification guide I now know that the bottle IS dated to 1976 from the Los Angeles Plant.

A Very Fine Fellow or Why the Long Face?

The second image in the photo contest:



"When leaving the Wind Wolves Preserve early one morning we spotted this Mule amongst other Mules and horses by the road side. We gave this Mule an apple. He is very friendly."
 

When we stopped to visit with the mules and horses, a couple employees of the Preserve stopped us for a tease of "this doesn't look like archaeology."

The equestrians sparked an interesting conversation about the developments made to saddle and tack that cumulated in the Western Saddle. Aspect of which the students did not know about. 

Taken a step further and imagine what it would have been like at the turn of the 1900s to have worked cattle from a horse or mule. The terrain is very variable and often invisible beneath the grasses. There are rattlesnakes and rodent burrows. How might sitting atop horse or mule change a persons perception of the landscape and its inhabitants?

Updates and Student Photography

Field work for the year was under way for two weeks in late May and early June. I was joined by two undergraduate archaeology students (Chloe Brown and Chris Warburton) and a fellow doctoral researcher Randy Ottenhoff, all from the University of Central Lancashire. The field season was amazing and many new historical sites were identified and recorded. More information on these sites will come later.

For now I want to introduce one way in which I tried to get the student engaged with the archaeology and the Wind Wolves Preserve in general. I introduced a photo contest amongst the participants. The rules were fairly simple, the four of us would submit to view one image taken with our personal camera to the point of the contest. The submitted photos were then judged by participants and the favourite was picked. The winners were asked to write a quick paragraph about the image for publication on this blog. In total we had four contests, with the last one restricted to non-animal subjects.

Here was the first winner:

“This is a close up photo of a lizard on a tree in our campsite. The photo was rather hard to take as the lizard kept moving around the tree whenever I moved closer to take the picture, however in the end I finally got a picture. “

Chloe Brown

31 May 2013