After a year of hiatus, I've returned to the field.
Take a look at some of my field pics!
You're all probably wondering what I meant by "field".
I am very much in to Archaeology. Part of what archaeologists do is go to the "field".
This summer I went to Misamis Oriental for the Alubijid Archaeological and Heritage Project.
This summer I went to Misamis Oriental for the Alubijid Archaeological and Heritage Project.
I made this banner for us. Publicity materials like this is important to educate the masses about the difference of archaeologists and treasure hunters/tomb raiders/looters.
The project is hosted by the Local Government Unit of Alubijid.
We had been invited to study their historic brick kiln.
The "site" (the place were archaeology can be investigated) is carved into the hillside.
We've got folks helping us along the way, which leaves me some time to do precious notes-taking.
We've got folks helping us along the way, which leaves me some time to do precious notes-taking.
Not like the movies: 50% of the time, archaeologists take down a lot of notes, accomplish pages and pages of forms, take a bunch of measurements and talk to each other about what's going down.
The rest of the time, we do a lot of tedious brushing. Like, a whole lot.
We go through several brushes in one field season, especially if there are "structures" (remnants of standing features).
Here, I'm brushing sediments off of the roof of our structure.
Work doesn't end when we get back to camp.
There's a whole set of things that needs to be done in camp, such as what is shown above.
This is pot washing, where we rinse artifacts.
We do this to prepare them for processing. What's that? That requires a post on its own.
We also do a lot of surveys while we're in the area.
Surveys are conducted to see the relationship of our site to the rest of the landscape as well as to investigate other potential sites.
Nothing brings me greater joy than to see an excavated site.
This is what's left of the historic brick kiln.
This is officially a heritage site, condoned by the National Museum of the Philippines (who is our mother hen).
It's hard to picture it through this photo. That's why we bring in artists to draw the site based on what we find.
We work very closely with them to make sure we get everything right.
That's still in the works ;)
Here are some of the media coverage from this excavation:
... for updating...
Here are some of the media coverage from this excavation:
... for updating...
XO, Pau
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