{"id":8216,"date":"2013-05-05T23:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T20:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2013-05-18T00:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T21:59:48","slug":"be-my-guest-dr-helen-wickstead-archaeologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/be-my-guest-dr-helen-wickstead-archaeologist\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my guest: Dr. Helen Wickstead, Archaeologist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Finally- reality meets fantasy!<\/span><\/h2>\n

After over ten posts about my Mound Hacking\u00a0project, and sending links around the world, I got a wonderful surprising e-mail. <\/span>Dr Helen Wickstead\u00a0is a REAL Archaeologist, working in the UK. This is what she wrote: <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/em><\/span><\/span>“<\/strong> I am very interested in your project and wonder if you might be interested in extending your project to include a site I am excavating in the UK? <\/span><\/strong>I am currently excavating a complex of prehistoric sites considerably earlier than the Library of Alexandria, some of which are contemporary with Stonehenge (only 12 miles away). <\/span><\/strong>This year we will be excavating part of two large circular enclosures – ceremonial ‘henge’ type structures which contain the traces of large circular pits which probably once contained timbers for uprights, like those at Stonehenge.” <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

I am so excited, my heart beats so fast! <\/span><\/h2>\n

Moreover,\u00a0I am about\u00a0to learn something new: <\/span><\/h2>\n

<\/span><\/strong>“When an archaeologist has excavated a trench it is common practice to leave something behind so that future excavators know that the trench is a recent intrusion into the site deposits, this is normally one of the excavators trowels, or a coin (which obviously has the year on it). I wonder if you would be prepared to give me one of your sherds to bury in my filled in excavated trenches after this year’s excavations?<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

After we have finished the excavation we could leave behind one of your sherds and document this process before burying it. You could do this yourself, if you are able to visit us in Britain.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

What do you think?”<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

<\/span>You can learn more about Dr. Helen Wickstead’s Damerham Archaeological Project at and how it is related to artistic interventions – very interesting and open minded. <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

I might be travelling there with a ceramic key to Ancient Alexandria Library.<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

www.artarchaeology.org<\/a><\/h3>\n

www.damerhamarchaeology.org<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Finally- reality meets fantasy! After over ten posts about my Mound Hacking\u00a0project, and sending links around the world, I got a wonderful surprising e-mail. Dr Helen Wickstead\u00a0is a REAL Archaeologist, working in the UK. This is what she wrote: “ I am very interested in your project and wonder if you might be interested in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,1,538,569,85,277],"tags":[717,577,554,576,575,723,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}