Another conference and another couple of videos. Though you will find that the sound is much better with these than the last ones I posted.
Brief- May 31st 2014, Archaeological Research in Progress Conference in Dundee Scotland. I video recorded and then edited the presentations. I hope you enjoy them:
Depicting the Dead: Faces from the Past- Professor Caroline Wilkinson
Picture this: Recent archaeological visualisation on Scotland’s national forest estate- Matt Ritchie
Always chasing deer: The Scottish medieval parks project- Derek Hall
Monumental Iron Age Architecture in the Tay Estuary Basin: A 10 year excavation programme- David Strachan
Medieval and Renaissance Planning at Falkland Palace: the evidence from the East Range- Dr Jonathan Clark
Adopt-a-Monument and Dighty Connect: A partnership project with a different approach- Cara Jones
DigIt! 2015- Dr Jeff Sanders
Adding a new dimension to Dundee’s medieval carves stones- Dr Graeme Cavers and Christina Donald.
Thomas Rees- An Archaeological Renaissance? A Regional Review looking out from Dundee
dover1952
June 15, 2014
I enjoyed Caroline Wilkinson’s presentation very much, and her Scottish accent is wonderful—stroocture of the moosles. Figuratively speaking, it kind of made me want to grab my sword and go fight the army of the English king. (Yes, I know he is really a queen who just turned 88.)
Anyway, it was right along the lines of the most recent post on my blog where I tried (perhaps awkwardly) to add black Native American irises/pupils to the famous statue of “Sandy,” which was an attempt by the ancient sculptor to realistically capture the appearance of either a chiefly lineage ancestor or a mythological being whose appearance was well sketched out verbally in an ancient mythological narrative. In either case, I took to heart Caroline’s statement about small differences of the face that can make a large difference in a person’s appearance—as I learned with Sandy’s eyes.
Doug. Would you mind if I took the video of Caroline’s presentation alone over to my blog and reposted with a little original introduction in my own words. I would of course cite your blog as the original source of the video. If you are uncomfortable with that—no problem.
Doug Rocks-Macqueen
June 15, 2014
It is embeddable and under a creative commons license so please do, you don’t even need to cite me. I would hope more people would re-post it and the other videos too. While I understand the reasons why some people are very concerned about credit they really are not applicable to me or my situation. I should actually post a CC license on this blog. So yes, please take, mesh, re-post, etc. any of my work. No need to ask permission ever again.
dover1952
June 15, 2014
Thanks Doug. I will probably do it this week or next. I appreciate the generosity, but I like to ask people for permission on a case-by-case basis just in case there might be some problem or sensitivity that I might not know about.
Summer is trying to arrive here in Tennessee. We had our own miniature monsoon season here last week. However, I feel sure that the intense heat and humidity will arrive by the Fourth of July holiday—and so will the deafening night sounds from an army of cicada bugs.
You and your readers might be interested in a local Tennessee archaeology blog that I have been following with regard to a Middle Tennessee State University field school that is underway in Rutherford County. The link is as follows: