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Art Wars VI: Return of the Napoleoni
13 years ago
Customs was kind enough to let me back into the country and it is indeed good to be back! A lot was waiting for me on my return:
A. They'd taken my desk and assigned me a totally new job in a new department at work
B. A small mountain of chores to catch up on
C. This @_@ (*finally surrenders*)
D. The latest part in
vixyyfox's 'Reach for the Sky' series (go grab it!)
Once I get caught up and back into the swing of things there'll be time for art anew. I'm really looking forward to drawing again! It's been too long.
For those of you wondering how the archaeological dig went, it went really well! We had more trenches open at once this season than ever before so we were able to move a lot of dirt. Being a multi-occupation site (i.e. civilizations built their towns on top of their predecessors' settlements) that meant uncovering a little bit of everything.
Up in the Byzantine level we stumbled onto a trove of great artifacts apparently just haphazardly thrown into a corner of a room. These included several decorated bronze crosses, censers and a pair of swords. Our Byzantine specialist, though she does not claim to be an expert on medieval arms, thinks that the sword may in fact be a Western blade and possible evidence of Norman presence at our site in the 11th century. Yep, the same Normans who invaded England that same century. History has recorded their activity as crusaders and mercenaries in the Mediterranean but (until now, possibly) there has been no evidence of their presence in the part of Anatolia where we worked.
In the Early Iron Age we found a patch of melted clay that upon excavation turned out to be a perfect mold of a leather waterskin. Most likely it burned in situ leaving the imprint. That was pretty cool since no artifacts made of biological material have survived for three thousand years in this part of the world.
In Hittite levels we found a 5 foot thick casemate wall and an immaculate stamp seal inscribed with a gryphon - one of the top 5 artifacts ever found on the site, everyone agreed. Both are evidence that the Hittite town was fairly important in its time.
And down in the stone age trenches we found a possible kiln and several pot burials, and lots more questions than answers.
So that's the dig in a nutshell! I also did some travel around Greece, Turkey and Italy too, but that's another story :) Hope everybody had a great summer too!
A. They'd taken my desk and assigned me a totally new job in a new department at work
B. A small mountain of chores to catch up on
C. This @_@ (*finally surrenders*)
D. The latest part in
vixyyfox's 'Reach for the Sky' series (go grab it!)Once I get caught up and back into the swing of things there'll be time for art anew. I'm really looking forward to drawing again! It's been too long.
For those of you wondering how the archaeological dig went, it went really well! We had more trenches open at once this season than ever before so we were able to move a lot of dirt. Being a multi-occupation site (i.e. civilizations built their towns on top of their predecessors' settlements) that meant uncovering a little bit of everything.
Up in the Byzantine level we stumbled onto a trove of great artifacts apparently just haphazardly thrown into a corner of a room. These included several decorated bronze crosses, censers and a pair of swords. Our Byzantine specialist, though she does not claim to be an expert on medieval arms, thinks that the sword may in fact be a Western blade and possible evidence of Norman presence at our site in the 11th century. Yep, the same Normans who invaded England that same century. History has recorded their activity as crusaders and mercenaries in the Mediterranean but (until now, possibly) there has been no evidence of their presence in the part of Anatolia where we worked.
In the Early Iron Age we found a patch of melted clay that upon excavation turned out to be a perfect mold of a leather waterskin. Most likely it burned in situ leaving the imprint. That was pretty cool since no artifacts made of biological material have survived for three thousand years in this part of the world.
In Hittite levels we found a 5 foot thick casemate wall and an immaculate stamp seal inscribed with a gryphon - one of the top 5 artifacts ever found on the site, everyone agreed. Both are evidence that the Hittite town was fairly important in its time.
And down in the stone age trenches we found a possible kiln and several pot burials, and lots more questions than answers.
So that's the dig in a nutshell! I also did some travel around Greece, Turkey and Italy too, but that's another story :) Hope everybody had a great summer too!
Kidding aside, Byzies are my faaaavorite civ.... pretty much ever. Awesome stuff!
And yeah, I'd probably have "surrendered" much sooner in my case ^^;
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Man, who knew it would take so many warheads x_x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXosPfME5Zg&;
I've been like, drawing porn, composing music and making let's plays. Not quite as cool
oh yo do what we love all of the time, right?
V.
The job stuff is odd, though. :I
Hey, I brushed up on some 'archaeology & GIS' articles and downloaded an open source utility to take to the dig, but as it turned out they'd actually brought on board a geography specialist this season! So it looks like all their GIS needs at the project are taken care of: the guy had a total station and plotted out elevation points on a 5x5m raster grid much more accurate than what we'd had before. Can't wait to see the finished product!
Hittite stuff? SWEET! Did you uncover anything in cuneiform?
What was the name of the site you were working on?
The site's called Çadır Höyük, and it's a hundred foot tall multi-occupation mound about 4 hours east of Ankara. There's mounds like it all over in central Anatolia and it's by no means as important as most of the sites being dug in Turkey, but part of the fun is getting to uncover remains of daily life in a typical agricultural-based community (rather than some big famous metropolis). Plus it means the archaeology team's not full of prestigious prima donnas :P
A month late!! I had no idea that you returned, my dearest Lil' N! Delayed as it may be, I would love to wish you welcome!