{"id":9332,"date":"2013-10-11T09:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T07:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=9332"},"modified":"2015-12-07T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:42:00","slug":"be-my-guest-dr-helen-wickstead-and-the-rocdam-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/be-my-guest-dr-helen-wickstead-and-the-rocdam-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Be my Guest: Dr. Helen Wickstead and the Rocdam Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Helen\u00a0 Wickstead \u00a0wrote to me a few months ago and surprised me by asking me to send her shards<\/a>.<\/span> She and a few more archeologists excavated\u00a0Rockbourne Roman Villa and the Damerham prehistoric burial complex<\/span><\/a>, both in South West Hampshire, UK.<\/span>\u00a0 As\u00a0I\u00a0learned, it is also a beautiful\u00a0community project.<\/h3>\n

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As a Mound Hacker<\/span><\/a>, I sent her a few ostracons- my metaphorical keys to\u00a0ancient Alexandria Library door, such as this one:<\/h3>\n

\"MOUND<\/p>\n

They arrived safely at a\u00a0northern\u00a0continent and were carefully buried within the soil to be part of another region on planet earth.<\/h3>\n

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I am thinking of myself at the age of seven how I filled a notebook with the history of my family <\/a>and what I gathered about the Egyptians and how I carefully buried this knowledge for “someone to find in the future, so they will know what has happened here.”<\/h3>\n

After all, my childish self-centered\u00a0day dreams\u00a0have become true!<\/h3>\n

Helen, \u00a0a real archeologist was willing to play the game.<\/h3>\n

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Helen has found a place for the Medeterranean shareds within the ancient UK history. You can see them deep inside on the right.<\/h3>\n

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I hope the permanent ink leading to Blog as artwork<\/strong> <\/em>will perform its purpose as ostracons and stay clear for archaeologists of the future waiting under the\u00a0soil.<\/h3>\n

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I wonder what the children participating in the process of excavating the past\u00a0of their homeland, think about the digging; The finding of tools, bones, building structures of human beings living at the same place long ago. How do they perceive time after this process?<\/h3>\n

Less than one kilometer from my childhood home, in Israel, where I buried a notebook- a huge crew of diggers and archaeologists dug this summer<\/a>, 2013, and found Roman remains. So close to my notebook that turned to dust!<\/h3>\n

So near physically but so far on the timeline.<\/h3>\n

What would have happened if they dug there when I was seven? Would I\u00a0become an artist or an archaeologist?<\/h3>\n

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The RockDam project on facebook <\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Mound Hacker’s map of shards around the world<\/a><\/h3>\n

More here<\/span> <\/a><\/h3>\n

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Dr. Helen\u00a0 Wickstead \u00a0wrote to me a few months ago and surprised me by asking me to send her shards. She and a few more archeologists excavated\u00a0Rockbourne Roman Villa and the Damerham prehistoric burial complex, both in South West Hampshire, UK.\u00a0 As\u00a0I\u00a0learned, it is also a beautiful\u00a0community project. As a Mound Hacker, I sent her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265,1,204,538,569,572],"tags":[239,717,625,184,575,177,723,690,587,714,623,624,626],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332"}],"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=9332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}