Dear Colleagues,
The Catalhoyuk illustrator, John Swogger, and I have been collaborating
on a series of illustrations to accompany the forthcoming archaeobotany
report for the site. The point in preparing them is to improve the
accessibility of the report to archaeologists in general and also to help
us focus on some of the blanks in our understanding of plant use at the
site. I have found the whole process very challenging and it has been fun
to work with an illustrator who wants my input (!). The process is wholly
collaborative, with me providing some of the nerdy botanical detail and
John a lot of the other archaeological detail, as well as the drawing
itself. For me, the process has made me think much more holistically about
plant use and how we present our interpretations. The images vary in style
and responses to them vary widely - most people tend to love or hate them.
If anyone is particularly interested in this aspect of archaeobotanical
interpretation the whole sequence of drawings, with drafts and notes
(including excerpts from email communications) can be found by following
the archaeobotany link at: http://www.kansas.net/~jghs/vol2.htm
My personal favourites are numbers 2 and 13.
The main page of the website (http://www.kansas.net/~jghs/) has links to
the whole Catalhoyuk illustration archive and may be of interest for
teaching purposes.
Best Wishes
Andy Fairbairn
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Dr Andrew S Fairbairn,
Centre for Archaeological Research,
School of Archaeology and Anthropology,
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Australian National University,
ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: ++61 2 6125 3498
Fax: ++61 2 6125 2711
For information about archaeology at ANU:
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