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)
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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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