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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 8:15 am
Any ideas for DIY archaeology set props you could share?
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 8:42 am
We talking about staging an entire scene or just a conversation item?
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 9:20 am
Any or all. My Pinterest is t showing me anything I haven’t already seen.
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 9:44 am
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Well, I doubt I’ve got any ideas that the might Pinterest doesn’t contain...but the way I’d do it...
Make a bunch of coil and pinch pits, then break them. Flake stone to produce a pile of waste ( don’t worry about a product but that’s a plus if you could manage). Place inorganic artifacts in implied relationships to each other and what would be long deteriorated organic elements. Toss chicken bones down. Pile small brush and set the whole put display on fire- brush away some char, and apply a red or rust colored pigment. Sprinkle sparingly with weathered beads.
Add a tent and a screen sifter, maybe grid stakes and line, leave a trowel and a small brush, set of dental picks - the usual, lol.
A still picture of that would make for a pretty good convo piece, too, IMO. The Wife and I were talking about it this am, be fun for her and the kids to play with her new camera.
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 10:23 am
I assume u meant pots. I did thrift store pottery and glassware. Coated the glass with cheap spray rhino and painted prior to smashing. I have the tent and sifter. Used cardboard concrete pour tubes with expanding foam in the ends for columns. Archway from a tv box so it’s collapsible.
Where do u get bones cheap and fast, real or fake?
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
July 8, 2021 at 10:46 am
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Same place they did....from dinner, or I suppose you could cast replicas. Shells would work too for a coastal scene. It’s that midden heap look, the appearance of daily life.
You could also read site descriptions and artifact logs, and pick out the objects you think would have the most visual interest.
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
August 9, 2021 at 4:53 am
Sod YOU, Pythagoras!
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
August 9, 2021 at 2:58 pm
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I think some scholarly study of Egyptian pyramid suggest application of pythagorean theorem during surveying and construction. If that is valid it would push back knowledge of pythagorean theorem another 1000 years.
it seems more and more of other geometric advancements previously attributed to the the classical and hellenistic greeks were in fact in circulation in the middle east at least a thousand years earlier.
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RE: The Archaeology Thread
October 19, 2021 at 11:54 pm
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