Archaeology 2006

Kaman-Kale Hoyuk. Digging on a grand scale. Late Chalcolithic to Ottoman mound in Central Turkey. Base of the Deep Trench is 12m down.



18 beautiful pots found in the baulk of the South sector. After 2 weeks of painstaking, mindnumbing digging and drawing of the 2 5x1m baulks we made the find of the season.

The real work. Archaeobotany in practise. Floating 1500+ litres of soil with Bronwyn in the Japanese garden. The tank - where we spent so many peaceful days, playing in the mud while watching the seeds float by.

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Sheffield MSc

Environmental Archaeologists in the field. Soon-to-be pollen experts and geoarchaeologists. A brave and hopeful bunch of people.

Perhaps the future....

Catal Hoyuk. The granddaddy of Turkish Archaeology. Famous for its microexcavations and sponsors. And love of Archaeobotanists.

Viva La REVOLUTION!!!

End of Semester - Flat 29 celebrates for one final time before we all disappear for Christmas





In the beginning: Georgia and Tatianna use chopsticks for the first time.


And then the revolution began!!!!

fruit salad of vodkas - 5 pounds for 6 on a monday night

Gina trys one

I buy some.

Bubblegum, bananna and peach

And we ended at bar one.

What a night!! Cheers, girls - These months have been great.

Adventures!

Took time out from Sheffield with two mates and drove across to the Coast - Whitby and Scarborough. Two amazingly contrasting sea side towns to the east of the Yorkshire Moors. It's a beautiful country.

The church in front of the Abbey where Bram Stoker based some of Dracula

Whitby Abbey, beautiful location.

Micheal and Ryan - as always i was taking way too many pictures.
Whitby itself. Great fish and chips. There is a Captain Cook theme to the village. He worked here prior to finding Oz.
Scarborough. The tacky English seaside with bright lights and beeping things. We also got snowed on here by detergent sprayed out from a big cannon in a winter market.

A casino for children.

Autumn

Afternoon at St Georges

Western Park

The colours of change

Random things

Walkabout on West St, a converted prayer hall with graves in front. A screwed representation of Aussie culture, only Fosters and no Lemon, Lime and Bitters. Oh - and no aussies either, not surprisingly.
The Drama Centre - performing waiting for Godot in a re-used church.
The Job Centre Plus - it has computers! (also the location for the job seeking scenes of the Full Monty) What a strange idea?!?

Sheffield Anglican Cathedral - an otherwise nice building with a Gotham City type entrance. In Sheffield even the oldest buildings are trying to look new (and a little ugly) unlike Melbourne where new buildings start to look old as soon as they are made.

Beneath the Gotham Tower.

Winter Garden. One of those Millenium projects.....

Part of the very tiny old part of Sheffield - a building attached to the Catholic Cathedral

Around town.

The Town Hall

Central Sheffield with the SUPER tram. It is very sweet. They have three lines. On goes Northeast to the big shopping centre, another south east past the station, and one to the west out to Sheffield Wednesday's home ground. The locals still get lost.
City Hall - a concert venue!

The Botanic Gardens
West Street, one of the major night-life streets where the Archaeology department is situated.

More West Street with one of the seven hills in the background.

Match of the Day!

Saturday 18th November: The much anticipated clash between Sheffield United and Manchester Utd. My first LIVE Premier League game! Only 20 minutes walk from home - the joy!

Bramall Lane Stadium - Home to Sheffield United Football Club - The Blades!

Manchester United warm-up. Rooney, Scholes, Ferdinand, Ronaldo, Giggs, Neville all in attendance.

The Girls (Anna, Tatiana, Gina) and I all went to see Sheffield United play Man U along with 32,000 other people in the freezing cold.

Manchester attack the Sheffield goal. Sheffield goalie (Paddy I learnt from the guy behind me) saved some amazing attempts!

Sheffield take a penalty as their best player Kazim goes off.

Biffo as Manchester levels the score 1 all. Half a dozen police mill on the stairs after one Manchester United fan celebrates and is punched in the face. One man arrested, the other led to a Manchester friendly area. After the match we walk past mounted police, and police with riot helmets surrounding a 30 strong group of chanting Sheffield supporters.

Sheffield celebrates the first goal of the match! Final result: Sheffield 1-2 Manchester. Sheffield was robbed! I must go again - maybe Sheffield v Aston Villa 5 pounds from the Student Union!