The Week Ahead
Day off yesterday, but still somehow ended up in the lab doing some work. How does that happen?
Finished off some initial reconstructions from last season that had remained unfinished. These are projected reconstructions, to scale and taken directly from the final excavation plan of the phase and building in question. These illustrations may be a little dry and static, but they're extremely useful as a first step in recreating the appearance of the building. I'll use these as the basis for other, more "artistic" reconstructions later on. I've also been working more on the comic strip, and have just about completed the drawings for all the panels. This week I'll combine them with the finished layouts for each page, and turn the English text over to one of our Turkish team-members for translation. Hopefully we'll have something almost complete by the end of the week.
My other jobs for this week include sitting down with the directors of the Istanbul University excavation and going through their excavation plans from last year in order to do a reconstruction of their small building. It has a number of unusual features in it: a set of bins, a "closed" pedastal containing a bucrania and surrounded by a deposit of raw stone, and a collection of worked grinding stones in the room next door. In addition, the building burned down at some point, providing an interesting closure to the building's history.
Plus, of course, there's the regular round of finds illustration, including drawing some really nice pieces of obsidian that came out of a cache in the North Area. I know the lithics people think I don't like drawing chipped stone - but I do! I'm just not as obsessed with it as they are! But these are nice pieces - really nice pieces. The only thing that I don't like about drawing obsidian as opposed to flint or chert is that obsidian can be so hard to see properly because it's both translucent and reflective; makes it hard to make out the detail sometimes.
Finished off some initial reconstructions from last season that had remained unfinished. These are projected reconstructions, to scale and taken directly from the final excavation plan of the phase and building in question. These illustrations may be a little dry and static, but they're extremely useful as a first step in recreating the appearance of the building. I'll use these as the basis for other, more "artistic" reconstructions later on. I've also been working more on the comic strip, and have just about completed the drawings for all the panels. This week I'll combine them with the finished layouts for each page, and turn the English text over to one of our Turkish team-members for translation. Hopefully we'll have something almost complete by the end of the week.
My other jobs for this week include sitting down with the directors of the Istanbul University excavation and going through their excavation plans from last year in order to do a reconstruction of their small building. It has a number of unusual features in it: a set of bins, a "closed" pedastal containing a bucrania and surrounded by a deposit of raw stone, and a collection of worked grinding stones in the room next door. In addition, the building burned down at some point, providing an interesting closure to the building's history.
Plus, of course, there's the regular round of finds illustration, including drawing some really nice pieces of obsidian that came out of a cache in the North Area. I know the lithics people think I don't like drawing chipped stone - but I do! I'm just not as obsessed with it as they are! But these are nice pieces - really nice pieces. The only thing that I don't like about drawing obsidian as opposed to flint or chert is that obsidian can be so hard to see properly because it's both translucent and reflective; makes it hard to make out the detail sometimes.
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