Peter,
And, better yet, If there is a local industry doing this nearby, there is
a possibility that I could wheedle a donation out of them. <smile>
Linda Derry
Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Alabama Historical Commission
9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
park: 334/ 875-2529
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On Sat, Jul 21, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Peter Matthews <
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> You could try a woodchip-composite pathing material used in playgrounds or
> park trails.
>
> If there are locally made examples of this that represent a result of
> landscape change and plantation forestry in your area, the material could
> be incorporated into your story.
>
> (i.e. take an organic, ethnobotanical approach?)
>
> Cheers, Peter
>
>
> Dr Peter J. Matthews
> Field Sciences Lab. & Dept of Cross-Field Research,
> National Museum of Ethnology, Senri Expo Park,
> Suita City, Osaka 565-8511, Japan.
>
> Tel. +81-6-6878-8344 (office)
> Tel. +81-6-6876-2151 (exch., J. only)
> Fax. +81-6-6878-7503 (office)
> Skype name: cooperative
>
> Websites:
> Wild Taro Research Project
> <https://researchcooperative.org/wild-taro-research-project> (JSPS funded
> project, 2017-2020)
> The Research Cooperative <http://researchcooperative.org> (for better
> research communication)
> Minpaku Anthropology Newsletter
> <http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/activity/
> publication/periodical/newsletter>
> (activities of the National Museum of Ethnology, biannual in English)
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 2:10 AM, Linda Derry <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
> > Histarchers,
> >
> > Can anyone suggest some good examples of sites where the locations of
> very
> > large buried archaeological features have been marked for public
> > interpretation without digging up the features or harming them in any
> way?
> >
> > For example, in Franklin TN, I saw that a portion of backfilled Civil War
> > trenches were marked out using grey slag on the ground surface. The slag
> > was contained by landscape edging. I noticed that grass was beginning
> to
> > emerge through the rock so it might not be a permanent installation
> unless
> > there was a plan to regularly spray the rock with chemical weed killer.
> >
> > I want to mark the location of a very large semi-circular moat around a
> > 15th century late Mississippian village. It was back filled in the mid
> > 19th century, but was used for a few decades as the centerpiece of an
> early
> > 19th town plan. I thought about planting a tall prairie style grass,
> but I
> > what I really need is something that is a visual clue but something that
> > visitors can easily walk across to access the acreage inside the
> > semicircle. I am hoping to accomplish this without much disturbance to
> > the mid-19th century fill in side the moat. And of course, I do not have
> an
> > unlimited budget.
> >
> > Any ideas or examples? I know there is someone out there that can help
> me
> > solve this puzzle.
> >
> > Linda Derry
> > Site Director, Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
> > Alabama Historical Commission
> > 9518 Cahaba Road, Orrville, AL 36767
> > park: 334/ 875-2529
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