http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm Blog about the Ravenscroft Archaeological Site, Williamsburg, Virginia en-us Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:34:48-0500 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:52:00-0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss gbrown@cwf.org gbrown@cwf.org http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/8/5/Wrapping-Up-Another-Field-Season-at-the-Ravenscroft-Site Posted by Katie Sikes Derek and Rachel excavate two one-meter portions of the builder's trench within Structure A’s cooking hearth. Our field school at Ravenscroft has now come to an end for this final summer. As plans are being made to ba... Excavation Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:52:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/8/5/Wrapping-Up-Another-Field-Season-at-the-Ravenscroft-Site http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/31/Mapping-and-Excavating-Features-at-Ravenscroft Posted by Ashton Smith Ashton takes an elevation with the site’s digital transit. Before field school at the Ravenscroft site I had a lingering question on my mind: What does an archaeologist actually do? Having had no prior experience i... Excavation Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:30:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/31/Mapping-and-Excavating-Features-at-Ravenscroft http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/29/Sources-of-InspirationOyster-Shells-Plant-Remains-and-the-Enthusiasm-of-Our-Visitors Posted by Erin Soller We are wrapping up the third week of our session and our immediate excavation goals and techniques have changed drastically. During the first two weeks, we mainly focused on excavating the plowzone. This large layer of soi... Excavation Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:55:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/29/Sources-of-InspirationOyster-Shells-Plant-Remains-and-the-Enthusiasm-of-Our-Visitors http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/15/The-Second-Week-of-the-Second-Session--Slogging-Through-the-Rain Posted by Katie Sikes The second session of this year's field crew is still relatively new to the site but has already met several challenges, from learning to read the soil beneath their workboots, to dealing with inclement weather. Some of th... Excavation Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:37:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/15/The-Second-Week-of-the-Second-Session--Slogging-Through-the-Rain http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/3/News-from-the-Trenches Posted by Katie Sikes Our crew for the second session of field school (left to right): Teaching Assistant Sarah Chesney, Intern Ari Caramanica, Intern Rachel Horowitz, Teaching Assistant Derek Miller, Emily Harger, Ben Pryor, Nikki Hudson, ... Excavation Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:58:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/7/3/News-from-the-Trenches http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Summing-Up-the-Past-Five-Weeks--The-End-of-Our-First-Field-School-Session Posted byKatie Sikes Our first five-week session of field school has now ended. While we look forward to working with a new student crew, we are sorry to give up a team that has worked well together and developed into very competent field archaeolog... Excavation Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:27:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Summing-Up-the-Past-Five-Weeks--The-End-of-Our-First-Field-School-Session http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Excavating-Features--What-Dirt-Can-Tell-Us Posted by John Kelly John Page. Over the past few days, I have been involved with the excavation of a seventeenth-century boundary ditch that runs through the Ravenscroft Site near the southeast corner of Structure A. Before Virginia's colonia... Excavation Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:25:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/30/Excavating-Features--What-Dirt-Can-Tell-Us http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/25/More-From-Our-Students Posted byLindsay Carver Students working in the new northern section of our site, in several features beneath the plowzone. While working at Ravenscroft over the past four weeks, the uniqueness of the site as part of Colonial Williamsburg, the wo... Excavation Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:09:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/25/More-From-Our-Students http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/18/More-Student-Perspectives-on-Archaeological-Fieldwork Posted byKatie Sikes Our student archaeologists are quickly developing their professional field skills, and are becoming more familiar and more comfortable with our excavation methods. They can now accurately identify some of the most common artifac... Excavation Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:05:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/18/More-Student-Perspectives-on-Archaeological-Fieldwork http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/17/More-Student-Perspectives-on-Archaeological-Fieldwork Posted by Katie Sikes At the close of our third week of this field season’s excavations, we are making good progress. With the help of Teaching Assistants Jenny Camp and Stephanie Bergman, and several of our interns, our students are stri... Excavation Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:03:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/17/More-Student-Perspectives-on-Archaeological-Fieldwork http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/10/The-NittyGritty-of-ArchaeologyMyth-vs-Reality Posted by Katie Sikes For the majority of this year’s weblog posts, we aim to give our readers an inside look at the experience of participating in an excavation by regularly including a variety of perspectives from students, many of whom... Excavation Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:10:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/10/The-NittyGritty-of-ArchaeologyMyth-vs-Reality http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/5/Expanding-Excavations-at-Ravenscroft Posted by Katie Sikes Our student crew this summer session (left to right): Stephanie, Andrew, CJ, Jamie, James, Lindsey, Ryan, Mike, John, Matt, Rachel. Our staff this summer session (left to right): Teaching Assistants Stephanie Bergman,... Excavation Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:46:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2008/6/5/Expanding-Excavations-at-Ravenscroft http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/15/The-2007-Field-Season-Draws-to-a-Close Posted byKatie Sikes We said a reluctant goodbye to our student crew on August 3rd, after taking several overhead site photographs of the excavated cellar from the basket of a cherry picker. Intact features on the cellar floor and the artifa... Excavation Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:48:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/8/15/The-2007-Field-Season-Draws-to-a-Close http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/23/Kids-Then-and-Now Posted byKatie Sikes Some of the most insightful questions and the most keen-eyed observations about our ongoing excavations come from children, frequent visitors to our site. Fascinated by the sight of digging and sifting through dirt in order to t... Excavation Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:11:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/23/Kids-Then-and-Now http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/16/A-Change-of-Crew-and-a-Change-of-Scene Posted by Katie Sikes With the help of the new students of our field school's second session (below), as well as returning veteran students and interns Libby, Zach, Cheryl, Matt, and Tyler, we are now working in the protective shade of a ... Excavation Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:10:00-0500 http://research.history.org/ravenscroft/blog/index.cfm/2007/7/16/A-Change-of-Crew-and-a-Change-of-Scene