From the monthly archives: July 2007

Mobile XRF in Museums

On July 30, 2007 By

NCPTT’s David W. Morgan participated in “Mobile XRF in Museums: Applications for Anthropology and Natural History Collections.”

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Learning from the Dead

On July 25, 2007 By

Graveyards can be excellent resources for studying art, language, social and family history, cultural landscapes, and even the natural sciences.

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On June 26, NCPTT broke ground for its new landscape project during a ceremony at the National Center’s headquarters, Lee H. Nelson Hall, in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

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The Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC) has hosted a competition each year since 1991 for the most outstanding paper submitted by a student about the prehistory, ethnohistory, or historical archaeology of the Southeast.

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The “Prospection in Depth” course, currently in its second iteration, offers a new approach to archaeological pedagogy, incorporating multiple geophysical techniques, hands-on equipment use, and data collection at genuine archaeological sites.

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Hurricane Katrina and its massive destruction drew attention to the commonplace markers on the landscape that create sense of place for a community.

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Sediments used to build earthworks break down into identifiable soil horizons over time. Previous and on-going studies show that older earthworks have a more developed soil sequence with a well defined and thick accumulation of clay.

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NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson was featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Traditional Masonry Magazine (Volume 2, Issue 2).

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Sarah Jackson represented NCPTT at the Casey Farms workshop, a Preservation Trades Network regional workshop.

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David W. Morgan has been accepted as an Expert Member of International Council on Monuments and Sites’ International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management.

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