1st February 2010, 10:39 AM
bring artefacts to life! Which reminds me, off to look at redundant churches tomorrow.
I once thought that it would be interesting to consider what proportion of handaxes were made from natural flake blanks and thought one way was to look through site reports and work a trend from the illustrations. About half a day later I realised that the illustrations were not fit for my purpose. At the time of my travels in the Palaeolithic I came across the odd phd who were trawling thought the collections collecting information on various attributes and recording the information on simple sketches or pro-forma diagrammatics. As far as I could see these were archaeologists and they were producing archaeological illustrations. I imagine today they would be using their phone cameras. Basically I think that an archaeological illustration must have a purpose and not the if I put an illustration in my report it makes it look like I is a archaeologist, more like and antiquarian, particularly if it’s a recommendation from a curator or a specialist for some item found on a watching brief, oh sorry, an archaeological monitoring.
There was a time when being proficient in a vector computer package like CorelDraw and its sister photo-manipulation software was a marketable attribute and would give the holder the ability to produce the graphics for virtually any grey literature report. It must have moved on now. Has anybody any suggestions? I think that pip would do best to get proficient at that and if you ever come across a rotering pen dig its nib into the table top.
I once thought that it would be interesting to consider what proportion of handaxes were made from natural flake blanks and thought one way was to look through site reports and work a trend from the illustrations. About half a day later I realised that the illustrations were not fit for my purpose. At the time of my travels in the Palaeolithic I came across the odd phd who were trawling thought the collections collecting information on various attributes and recording the information on simple sketches or pro-forma diagrammatics. As far as I could see these were archaeologists and they were producing archaeological illustrations. I imagine today they would be using their phone cameras. Basically I think that an archaeological illustration must have a purpose and not the if I put an illustration in my report it makes it look like I is a archaeologist, more like and antiquarian, particularly if it’s a recommendation from a curator or a specialist for some item found on a watching brief, oh sorry, an archaeological monitoring.
There was a time when being proficient in a vector computer package like CorelDraw and its sister photo-manipulation software was a marketable attribute and would give the holder the ability to produce the graphics for virtually any grey literature report. It must have moved on now. Has anybody any suggestions? I think that pip would do best to get proficient at that and if you ever come across a rotering pen dig its nib into the table top.