Steve:

Thanks!  I hope that Dr. Gradwohl  and Iowa State are not offended. 

My apologies!

Rich Lundin, WRI

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Hanken
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 12:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Cemetery Course Development

That would be Dr. David Gradwohl, Iowa State, Professor Emeritus
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Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: Cemetery Course Development


> Jeremy:
>
> Dr. David Grunwald, Professor Emeritus of the University of Iowa taught 
> such
> a program and chaired a session at SHA in York, England where Wondjina
> Research Institute (WRI) presented our archaeogeophysical studies of a
> Jewish Cemetery at Virginia City, Nevada.  I believe that there have been
> other cemetery studies sessions at various SHAs since then.
>
> If you are serious about teaching new, non-intrusive archaeogeophysical 
> and
> archaeochemical techniques for finding and mapping burials, Dr. Claudia
> Brackett and I would be glad to give you some references on cemetery 
> studies
> using these new technologies (see the National Database for Archaeological
> Geophysics (NADAG) website for examples from archaeogeophysics) especially
> portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) for archaeochemical studies of soils 
> and
> plants.  WRI and Country Chemist (CC) have grants for the investigation of
> the use of pXRF technologies in field archaeology and archaeometry and are
> interested in doing non-intrusive studies on cemeteries under these grants
> this .
>
> Best of luck in your research and the course.  If you run across some
> interesting papers\presentations dealing with Combined Survey Format (CSF)
> archaeogeophysical and archaeochemical studies of cemeteries, Claudia and 
> I
> would be very grateful for the references as we are looking to put 
> together
> a CD volume on the use of new technologies in archaeology from airbourne
> remote sensing to advances in pXRF.  This would fit into my Doctoral
> research and would complement our work for the Technology Committee of SHA
> and any further work for a future American Chemical Society (ACS)
> Archaeochemical Division, that might sponsor a course such as you 
> envision.
>
> Please feel free to give me a call at WRI's Sonora California office 
> number:
> (209) 532-3873 if you have questions or need further information.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP
> Consulting Historical Archaeologist & Remote Sensing Specialist
> (Archaeogeophysics)
> Director, Wondjina Research Institute
> Member, SHA Technology Committee
> Co-Chair and Co-Organizer SHA 2010 pXRF Session
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jeremy
> Pye
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:01 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cemetery Course Development
>
> Greetings all,
>
> I am currently trying to develop a course in historic cemetery studies, 
> both
> from a below ground and above ground perspective. I am curious if there is
> anyone on the list that currently teaches or knows of someone who teaches
> such a course. I would very much like to see the directions that other
> people have taken.
>
> Best,
> Jeremy Pye
>
>
>


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