Egypt
British Museum (Neal Spencer)
- Update Re Amara West: A Pottery Kiln?
The British Museum Shadia Abdu Rabo, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Neal Spencer, British Museum Towards the end of the season, working in layers beneath house E13.8, we found a circular kiln – our first at Amara West....
- Amara West Blog Up And Running
British Museum If you enjoy following excavation blogs you won't be disappointed by this one. Here's one of the early posts, but they have been posting consistently since then, and their blog provides an excellent example of how good a blog can...
- Work Continues At Amara West Even After The Season Closes
British Museum (Neal spencer) A busy last week saw excavations wound up in Amara West, a concerted effort to survey, draw, photograph and record all the features exposed … and then the logistics of closing the dig house, travelling south to Khartoum,...
- New Issue Of Bmsaes
The British Museum British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan Issue 16: January 2011 See the above page for links to the articles, available free of charge as PDFs. The annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology...
- Using Carlson Survce To Survey History
The American Surveyor Every day as I headed to my job, the theme from Indiana Jones kept running through my head. I even had the hat! The site I was surveying was older than any piece of property I had ever worked on before. I was working in the dry,...
Egypt
Shopping for equipment for fieldwork in the Sudan
British Museum (Neal Spencer)
With departure for Sudan only weeks away, we’re putting together the final preparations for our fourth season of fieldwork at Amara West. Flights are booked, visas obtained, inoculations accumulated – and we have defined the key priorities for excavations in the town.
However, more mundane matters are currently being attended to.
As with most archaeology projects, the team needs a range of equipment, from specialist technical devices through to simple tools. Nearly all have one thing in common – none were designed specifically for archaeology!
Neal Spencer and Shadia Abdu Rabo using a Topcon total station to map the town site
From the builder’s toolbox we use trowels, measuring tapes, wheelbarrows, nails and hammers. While art shops provide us with the drafting film, tracing paper and of course pencils.
The surveyor’s total station – for accurately measuring distance and areas – is probably our most advanced piece of equipment.
- Update Re Amara West: A Pottery Kiln?
The British Museum Shadia Abdu Rabo, National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, Sudan and Neal Spencer, British Museum Towards the end of the season, working in layers beneath house E13.8, we found a circular kiln – our first at Amara West....
- Amara West Blog Up And Running
British Museum If you enjoy following excavation blogs you won't be disappointed by this one. Here's one of the early posts, but they have been posting consistently since then, and their blog provides an excellent example of how good a blog can...
- Work Continues At Amara West Even After The Season Closes
British Museum (Neal spencer) A busy last week saw excavations wound up in Amara West, a concerted effort to survey, draw, photograph and record all the features exposed … and then the logistics of closing the dig house, travelling south to Khartoum,...
- New Issue Of Bmsaes
The British Museum British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan Issue 16: January 2011 See the above page for links to the articles, available free of charge as PDFs. The annual Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Distinguished Lecture in Egyptology...
- Using Carlson Survce To Survey History
The American Surveyor Every day as I headed to my job, the theme from Indiana Jones kept running through my head. I even had the hat! The site I was surveying was older than any piece of property I had ever worked on before. I was working in the dry,...