Rob:
If you feel that pXRF chemical analyses of soils or plant would be useful in
finding the house sites, please feel free to give Dr. Brackett or myself a
call at WRI Sonora California Office number: (209) 532-3873 so we can
discuss your project. Wondjina Research Institute (WRI) under its grant from
Olympus INNOV-X (OIX) will do up to 10 FREE analyses of soil, plant,
artifact, osteological, or lithic materials FREE to any researcher. WRI has
be doing this service for the the archaeological and conservation
communities since 2005 and has analyzed over 1000 materials. Specifically,
to your project; I would suggest you obtain a copy of the 2011 WRI\CC\OIX
SCA Archaeochemical Workshop CD which contains the presentatation that Dr.
Brackett and I made at SHA 2007 in Williamsburg on the pXRF analyses of
house sites of the residential sites associatiated with Fort Louis de
Louisiane in Alabama. The CD is FREE and is considered very informative.
Alternately, if you are going to SHA 2012 in Baltimore, you or your students
can bring the materials to the conference for analysis during the conference
at either the WRI\CC\OIX Archaeochemical Workshop or at the OIX booth during
the conference as many of the samples as can be done at the conference will
be be done FREE on a "time available" basis. This program has proven to be
very successful for investigators and at the SHAs at Tononto, Amelia Island
and Austin where 15 investigators obtained FREE critical analyses for their
research.
Dr.Brackett and I wish you the best in your efforts at Galveztown as the
data you collect would be very useful in comparative studies of other
Hispanic immigrant population sites in Florida and Jamaica, where WRI has
continuing research interests. We hope to see a future presentation at SHA
and meet you, personally, at the the Archaeochemical Workshop in Baltimore.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Lundin BA, MA, RPA, ISAP, AIPG
Consulting Historical Archaeologist & Remote Sensing Specialist (Airbourne &
Archaeogeophysics)
Director, Wonjina Research Institute
Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 3rd SHA Technology Symposium at SHA
2012 Baltimore MD.
Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 2nd SAA pXRF Symposium at SAA 2012 Memphis
TN.
Co-Organizer & Co-Chair of the 1st SME pXRF Session at SME 2012 Seattle WA
Member, SHA Technology Committee
Liason to SHA from SAS and ISAP .
Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Rob Mann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear HISTARCH members,
>
> The Galveztown Project 2011 Crew and I would like to invite you to follow
> our progress this summer at the Galveztown site in Ascension Parish,
> Louisiana. Galveztown was a ca. 1778-1825 Spanish colonial village and fort
> inhabited primarily by Canary Islanders brought to Louisiana by the Spanish
> to serve as colonists and soldiers. Following up on three seasons of shovel
> testing in the village area, LSU summer archaeological field school students
> are targeting an area of thick sheet midden deposits in hopes of locating a
> house within the village.
>
> In addition to being encouraged to post frequently on our Facebook page,
> the students are also required to post twice a week to our project blog (see
> links below). The goal is to get the students to be self-reflexive about
> the what, where, how, and why questions of field arachaeology and to be able
> to communicate those thoughts to each other and the general public. The
> blog entries are also great moments of self-reflexivity for me was well. I
> use them to critically evaluate my own abiltity to communicate with the
> students.
>
> To follow our project (and post your own comments on our Facebook page)
> please check out these links:
>
> http://groundtruth.typepad.com/archaeology_at_galveztown/
>
>
> https://www.facebook.com/pages/Archaeology-at-Galveztown-2011-Season/130820653662463
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
> *******************************************************
> Rob Mann, Ph.D.
> Regional Archaeologist and Assistant Profefssor-Research
> Department of Geography and Anthropology
> Louisiana State University
> Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803
>
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