JAMCam: GPS: The Redux
This week we’ve been revisiting our old friends; the GPS and QGIS. Some of you might remember last year the aches and pains we went through to record GPS data on site just before the 3G network shut down for good, and then the trial of importing that data into the forever exasperating QGIS. Unfortunatly […]
JAMCam: YAC Summer School
This week was the fist of our four week summer school for the Jarrow Hall Young Archaeologists Club. As part of this summer school they’ll be excavating on site, learning different advanced archaeological techniques, and taking responsibility for their own section of site. Sadly the weather had different ideas so our first day was spent […]
JAMCam: Goodbye July
We’re getting into crunch time as we approach August. It may be a month and a half before site closes, but at JAM HQ it feels like the rush is on to get everything completed. It’s important though to take a step back and recognise all of our acheivments so far. The first an foremost […]
JAMCam: Holidays
Happy Summer Holidays everyone! We hope you have plans for lovely holidays, whether you’re going away or having a relaxing time at home. It’s been a quieter week for us at JAM as well, which has given us plenty of time to catch up on paper work and recording. Caption: site photography is an essential […]
JAMCam: Getting Personal
Welcome to this weeks JAMCam, where we are taking a look at whats been going on this week, as well as some of the finds we’ve recovered. But first! It’s not too late to book your ticket for this Months JAM Lecture, where Dr. Andrew Woods of the Yorkshire Museums trust will be taking us […]
JAMCam: Environmental Processing
We’re on holiday this week at JAMHQ (kind of), so this week we have a little explanation of something that was touched on in last week’s update; wet sieving. Wet sieving. Wet sieving is part of an archaeological sub speciality Environmental Archaeology, which aim is to examine the ways in which the relationships between different human societies and the landscape by researching past environments, diets, and landscapes through scientific methods. The most common way archaeologists achieve this is through a process […]