Comments for microburin

Comment on Digging Seamer Carr 1985-6 | A few Mesolithic Memories of VP85 by How to make archaeologists | shelteringmemory

How to make archaeologists | shelteringmemory — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 22:15:04 +0000

[…] was looking at a post on Spencer Carter’s Microburin blog about fieldwork at Seamer Carr in 1985 which got me remembering my first excavation […]

Comment on Sneak Peek | Star Carr Exhibition Yorkshire Museum | Mesolithic by Spencer Carter

Spencer Carter — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 09:41:18 +0000

Thanks Nicky, I’ll check it out

Comment on Sneak Peek | Star Carr Exhibition Yorkshire Museum | Mesolithic by Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns)

Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:14:30 +0000

5, 7, 11 & 13 to be exact.

Comment on Sneak Peek | Star Carr Exhibition Yorkshire Museum | Mesolithic by Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns)

Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 07:12:16 +0000

Spencer, some of the images aren’t opening – getting a weird message about errors in the jpg file? It looks fabulous – thanks for posting! – but as I can’t get up there any time soon, I need those pics

Comment on Digging Seamer Carr 1985-6 | A few Mesolithic Memories of VP85 by shelteringmemory

shelteringmemory — Mon, 27 May 2013 16:39:31 +0000

85 was my first introduction to field archaeology – just up the coast a bit on the Church Close site on Hartlepool Headland with the old Cleveland County Unit – we had similar stylish orange cabins but it was a bit warmer and drier up in Co Durham

Comment on Digging Seamer Carr 1985-6 | A few Mesolithic Memories of VP85 by ehpem

ehpem — Mon, 27 May 2013 00:45:38 +0000

Great memories, and they triggered for me recollections of a cold November at the Mucking site in Essex in 1977. Many similar experiences, even though it was on a well drained gravel terrace, it was a rough bit of living.

Comment on Impaled Mesolithic Skulls in a Lake | Kanaljorden, Motala, Sweden still chills by Spencer Carter

Spencer Carter — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:58:26 +0000

Hi Nicky, yes, definitely dead, but how close to death is unclear at the moment I think. The team are looking at the possible processes involved, also whether the skulls were above or below water, visually. I was lucky enough to see Fredrik’s heart-stopping presentation at the MUGE150 conference in Portugal in March (Mesolithic shell middens, also with dead bodies in them). They’re looking at things like Strontium isotopic analysis to see how the people moved around the landscape – one can tell differences between the place of birth/youth and the “final resting place”. Oxygen isotopes can suggest a geographic origin too. Carbon13 and Nitrogen Stable Isotopes also lets one look at dietary traits (meat, fish, plants). And were they related? Who were they?

Comment on Impaled Mesolithic Skulls in a Lake | Kanaljorden, Motala, Sweden still chills by Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns)

Nicky Moxey (@moxeyns) — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:33:23 +0000

If a stake is inserted all the way through the hole for the spinal column to the top of the head, doesn’t that imply, after death? And to a dismembered body? The thought that struck me was staking after death and exposure of the remains to the elements. No basis to that at all, of course!

Comment on National Museum Denmark | Highlights of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections by moxeyns

moxeyns — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:06:48 +0000

Hahaha next time Hubby wants a holiday in Copenhagen, I shall be much more enthusiastic

Comment on National Museum Denmark | Highlights of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections by These Bones Of Mine

These Bones Of Mine — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:35:12 +0000

Excellent, thank you!