This is excellent.
MACL is doing great things with their web tools.
Cheers,
Tim Scarlett
On May 10, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Smoke wrote:

> New url for this is:
> http://www.jefpat.org/Wood&CharcoalIdentification/Introduction.htm
> :-)
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> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Sara Rivers <[log in to unmask]>  
> wrote:
>> Please see the following press release for information on a new web- 
>> based wood and charcoal identification tool.
>>
>> Sara Rivers Cofield
>> Curator of Federal Collections
>> Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
>>
>> New Website on Wood and Charcoal Identification Premieres
>>
>> Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum is pleased to announce the  
>> creation of a new website on wood and wood charcoal  
>> identification.   Funded by a grant from the National Park Service  
>> Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network, this online resource (http://www.jefpat.org/Wood 
>>  & Charcoal Identification/Wood and Charcoal ID Introduction.htm)  
>> will be an invaluable resource for archaeologists and  
>> paleobotanists.  This new initiative by the Maryland Archaeological  
>> Conservation Laboratory is part of its continuing efforts to create  
>> accessible identification tools and resource materials for  
>> archaeologists, curators, students, and anyone interested in  
>> Maryland and Mid-Atlantic history.
>>
>> This website project was headed by Dr. Harry Alden, a botanist and  
>> world-recognized expert in the microscopic identification of plant  
>> materials.  Alden created a type collection of unburnt wood and  
>> charcoal samples for trees and woody shrubs found in the Northern  
>> Chesapeake region.  Using this collection, which is housed at the  
>> Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson  
>> Patterson Park and Museum, he created online wood and charcoal  
>> identification tools for twenty-five of the most commonly occurring  
>> trees and shrubs in the Northern Chesapeake.  High resolution  
>> photographs of magnified thin sections of wood and charcoal have  
>> been labeled to show key characteristics of cellular structure  
>> useful in identification.  The webpage also contains a section on  
>> wood and charcoal identification basics, a glossary, and a  
>> bibliography, as well as links to other websites containing  
>> additional information
>>
>> This website will become available in early March 2009.
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