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🤣🤣🤣 Ann & I are discussing the formal vs familiar forms of greetings & replies in French (me) & Spanish (her). Not your average household.

Red slipped engraved bottle comparison

Wilder Engraved reproduction & original. #archaeology #ceramics

Red slipped engraved Caddo bottle & flake tools

Fired engraved Caddo bottle with spiral design

Reproduction red slipped Wilder Engraved (Caddo) bottle before & after firing & engraving. #archaeology #ceramics

Ancient Maya guy with obsidian ax about to chop his enlarged foot off

Maya Bigfoot.

Rough drawing of a projectile point with patchwork of colors

Art is an abstract thing. #archaeology #art

Orange tabby asleep on bed with pile of socks & an orange cat doll

It'l Bit. #cats

Sherd with incisions & drawing of rim sherd from the site

Plaquemine culture (ca. 1200-1700 CE) Anna Incised experimental sherd based on a rim sherd we recovered from Site 16LF66, Lafourche Parish, LA (Miller et al. 2001). Anna Incised occurs on the interior of shallow bowls & platters. #archaeology #ceramics

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Brown modeling clay with positive impressions of the cords

Parallel, horizontal cord marks from heavy cordage pressed into the wet clay body of a small straight-sided pot. This was 1 of several pots Ann made for her archaeology class project. The modeling clay shows the cord marks blurred by the wet clay during application. #archaeology #ceramics

Small yellow chert & pink chert points

Catahoula arrow points with their distinct swept wings typified by thickened shoulders. The type dates ca. 700-1100 CE & is found from east Texas to extreme west Mississippi & north to southern Arkansas & SE Oklahoma. #archaeology

Image of the 3 types of bottle necks/lips

Archaeologists often can tell the general contents of late 19th-early 20th C bottles by the closure/neck. a) Ball neck & Patent lip (medicine & extracts), b) Prescription lip (medicine) & c) Perry Davis lip (mainly proprietary & patent medicine). #archaeology

Front view of a white house with wide stairs leading up to a porch across front under roof & 2 small dormers.

Same except view of front & side

The 1836-1837 Christmas Cottage, Jackson, Louisiana. The house is a Carolina Lowland style house that sits on brick piers with the "crawl space" subsequently partitioned & enclosed with cinder block. #architecture #history #houses

Good thing we ate at home

Translucent blue green glass; trail in the same color. Intact; a few large bubbles; small patches of soil encrustation, weathering, and iridescence. Vessels that have been deliberately worked to create a wavy rim and sides are extremely rare in Roman glassware. This bowl is perhaps the best example known to have survived. A handkerchief bowl (or vase) is a decorative glass piece designed to mimic the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. Popularized in the modern era by Italian glassmakers in the 1940s and 50s, it remains a popular form. 3rd-4th century CE. H.: 3 5/8 in. (9.3 cm) Met Museum, New York (17.194.314)

This is an extremely rare and the best example of Roman glassware with wavy sides, a type known as a ‘handkerchief‘ bowl - so named because the design mimics the folded, drooping appearance of a cloth handkerchief. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 1/

3rd-4th c. CE. #MetMuseum
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Hemispheric jar with alternating triangular panels of punctations & incisions speckled with white slaking shell particles.

The slaking shell temper is destroying the Barton Incised reproduction pot a little bit at a time. #ceramics #archaeology

Brown grasshopper on concrete slab

Middle of February not long after a deep freeze & there is a grasshopper. #nature

Pink & orange sunset set with a few small gray clouds

Sunset near Hammond, LA, 20260213. #sunsets

Bottlebrush flower painted onto a bowl

Acrylic paint on terracotta

#pottery

Glowing pot in fire.

Reproduction Caddo jar firing in the fire pit. #ceramic #archaeology

Check-stamped jar, cord-marked bowl, frog pipe & snake platform pipe in ash & ember fire pit bottom.

Two reproduction vessels & some pipes cooling down in the fire pit in late 2024. #ceramics #archaeology

FYI: I apologize for not posting much recently.

I am now the 2nd in command (Captain) of a top 20 online gaming alliance. It's taken up a wee bit more time than I thought it would with policing members, helping them, recruiting, etc. I'll try to be better in posting interesting things.

LOL, got a stack from my Mardi Gras days, plus my little sister gave me her duplicates.

Elevation data along & to the sides of a small river

Northeast & southeast portions of the Albany, Louisiana, quadrangle map showing high-resolution #LiDAR elevation data presented in 3 different color palettes. #geomorphology #maps

Purple metal coin with turban wearing man with scimitar like knife

1989 Krewe of Sinbad #MardiGras doubloon. #carnival

Left & right wings.

Bisque swan or goose wings from archaeological investigations at Site 16VN3743, Vernon Parish, Louisiana. They are from a small figural. The site dates post ca. 1870. #ceramics #archaeology

Two types of orange & white butterflies on trowel handles.

Archaeological site excavation visitors getting perspiration salt off of our trowel handles. #archaeology

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Side & oblique views of same jar. #ceramics #archaeology

Apple-shaped jar with the upper portion having a meandering horizontal line in a red films blank area, with semicircles in the curve on top & bottom filled with incised grid on non-filmed surface.

Modern reproduction Weeden Island Zoned Red jar. The type dates ca. 700-1000 CE & is found from extreme southern Alabama & Georgia to central Florida below Tampa. #ceramics #archaeology

sonar image of barge frame mostly buried in the bottom

Side-scan sonar of the remains of a sunken wooden barge on the bottom of a St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, waterway. #archaeology #shipwrecks #maritime

excavations with people packing up equipment

Some of the crew, including wife Ann, wrapping up excavations at Site 8GD106 in Gadsden Co., Florida, before the afternoon thunderstorms moved in.

ca. 1995

#archaeology

Archaeologists excavating near a train track

Ca. 1990 excavations in Gettysburg, PA, at a former soda pop bottling works site during Project Ice House. #archaeology