[Aqualist] Volunteer opportunity: Shell mound Analysis

[Daniel Rosendahl]

ARCHAEOLOGY

Shell Mound Analysis

 

Call for volunteers

No Experience Needed!

 

Wellesley Regional Ancient Cultural History Project: (WRACHP) 

 

Do you want to 

*        develop skills in Aboriginal midden analysis? 

*        work on excavated materials from Mornington Island? 

*        assist in the first major archaeological research program
carried out in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria?

 

In its first field season in 2007 WRACHP recorded 90 sites across seven
islands with three shell mound excavations.

Sites include stone walled fish traps, shell mounds, Maccassan pottery
sites, quarries and story places.

 

Analysis will be conducted Monday through to Saturday on this exciting
excavation material in Room 208 of the Michie Building (Sean's Lab). 

 

I will be running laboratory sessions for volunteers from Monday-Friday
9-4 and Saturday 10-3.

 

Working on this material will enhance your skills in

*        identification of stone and shell artefacts 

*        identification of numerous shell taxa

*        identification of marine faunal remains

*        interpreting data obtained from laboratory analysis

*        advanced Excel spreadsheet 

 

If you want to take part contact me ASAP. 

 

Dan Rosendahl

 

Email  d.rosendahl at uq.edu.au

Mobile            0408 764 157

 

 

Daniel Rosendahl

PhD Candidate

Geography Planning and Architecture

University of Queensland

0733652388

"I do not think it means what you think it means" (Inigo Montoya 1987)