Hello everyone!
 
I apologize that it has taken me so long to answer some of these threads,
but I was changing my email server and other administrative challenges.  I
was unable to post to HISTARCH for a bit, but I have everything fixed now.
 
Regarding Mark Hernderson's post on the blacksmith site at Jacobs Well Pony
Express Station: Mark wrote:
 
>    I am very interested in how your project proceeds.  We have some similar
>site management concerns along the Pony Express National Historical Trail in
>East Central Nevada.  Don Hardesty, Tim Scarlett, Dick Goddard and Melissa
>Farncomb at the University of Nevada, Reno have conducted several years of work
>at sites along the Pony Express/Central Overland Trail.  One of these sites
>includes a Blacksmith's Workshop which was excavated.  There was not nearly the
>amount of surface archeology that I am envisioning at your site.  Perhaps the
>UNR folks have some suggestions for us based on this recent experience.  Tim I
>know was out there in HISTARCH land.  Look forward to your response.-Mark
 
I sent Michael LaRong some suggestions in a personal email during my
struggles with my new computer.  My comments, however, were directed at
surface collecting methodologies that might allow one to uncover surface
variation in time.  I know blacksmithing is an important topic for many out
there and I thought that I would pass on these contacts.  I worked for one
season at Jacobs Well and during that time I supervised another area of the
operation.  Tim Goddard ran the blacksmith area excavations during the 1996
season.  He can be reached at [log in to unmask]  The 1997 and 1998 season
produced a second blacksmithing area in a separate structure.  That dig was
headed by Melissa Farncomb ([log in to unmask]) and Bruce Hutchison (for whom
I don't have an email address right now).  They could each address specific
questions about the nature of the blacksmithing features and the artifacts.
 
 
Denise Haynes had also posted requesting information about field schools in
the Pennsylvania area.  I sent her a personal note recommending Steve
Warfel's work at the Cloister in Ephrata.  As a post-script Denise, you may
also be able to get information from Elizabethtown College where Steve is an
adjunct faculty member.
 
!Adios Todos!
Tim
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Timothy Scarlett
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Anthropology / 096
Reno, NV 89557-0096
(775) 784-4417 (Work)
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The Anthropologist is a myth teller, an epic poet who serves to glorify
humanity by composing and reciting, with skill and passion, the human myth.
-Myles Richardson 1975
"Anthropologist-- the Myth Teller" Am. Ethnologist
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