Does the intended SHA Material Culture series expect items from UK?
let me know
Cheers Phil Hudson, Settle, N Yorks UK
at
http://www.users.daelnet.co.uk/hudson-history/index.html
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> From: Sarah Cowie <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Proposed SHA Material Culture Series
> Date: 14 January 1999 20:57
>
> The SHA Material Culture Series sounds like an excellent idea. I hope it
gets
> plenty of support.
>
> I'd like to suggest that some other industrial categories be included, as
well
> (besides mining, transportation and logging). I'm an archaeologist
working
> for a CRM company in Georgia and I, for one, have more grist mill sites
than I
> can shake a stick at, with too few leads on identifying the hardware.
>
> Some information about industrial artifacts is available through historic
> manuals, current articles in the Journal for the Society of Industrial
> Archeology, and books like Gordon and Malone's _Texture of Industry_.
> However, there is a real need to digest such information for a
comprehensive
> guide to industrial artifacts and features. Useful topics might include
Mills
> (grist, textile, etc.), Water Power and Irrigation, Farming Implements;
> Manufacturing, Blacksmithing, and Iron Works to name just a few. You
might
> contact members of the SIA, HAER, and industrial mined folks of the SHA
to
> help compile such information.
>
>
> Sarah Cowie
> Southern Research
> Columbus, GA
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