Using geoarchaeological deposit modelling as a framework for archaeological evaluation and mitigation in alluvial environments

The pace of anthropogenic development on floodplains and adjacent valley floors is still increasing and in many countries this is accompanied by a requirement for heritage mitigation and management. The result is an increased demand for effective and efficient archaeological evaluation and mitigation strategies, which can only be achieved in alluvial environments through the application of geoarchaeological methods. This paper uses lidar data combined with deep geophysical survey (electrical resistivity), gouge coring and limited borehole data to derive a three dimensional geoarchaeological deposit model, which provided a vehicle for archaeological evaluation and mitigation. Significantly, the results of this deposit model are compared to the results from the subsequent archaeological evaluation trenching, a methodological next step that has not received sufficient attention within the (geo)archaeological literature. The deposit model is refined using radiocarbon dating and artefactual evidence derived from the archaeological evaluation trenching. The results demonstrate how geoarchaeological deposit modelling can be integrated with archaeological evaluation trenching and provides discussion of the importance and difficulties of integrating geoarchaeological sediment units (archives) with archaeological contextual excavation data, with conventional stratigraphic matrices

Maria Cosway’s Hours: Cosmopolitan and Classical Visual Culture in Thomas Macklin’s Poets Gallery

Thomas Macklin’s Gallery of Poets opened at the Mitre Tavern in Fleet Street in 1788 with the aim to ‘display British Genius’ through ‘Prints Illustrative of the Most Celebrated British Poets’. Early newspaper coverage promised ‘a monument of the powers of the pencil in England, as the Vatican is at Rome’. The incongruous juxtaposition between Fleet Street and the Vatican spells out the cosmopolitan ambition of the literary gallery phenomenon through its real and imagined geographies of display. Through the format of the paper gallery of prints, Macklin’s Poets offered the inventions of British Poets as a repository of painting. This chapter examines how the cosmopolitan idiom of the paper gallery is negotiated in the first number of Macklin’s Poets. This essay examines the extent to which this ambition was achieved in the first Number of Macklin’s Poets which carried an engraving of Maria Cosway’s The Hours, originally a painting with an impressively European iconographic heritage. The painting was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1783, and was retroactively associated by Macklin with Thomas Gray’s ‘Ode on the Spring’. The trope of the Hours brought with it a weighty provenance derived from classical marble bas-relief, through the antiquarian pages of Pietro Santi Bartoli and Bernard de Montfaucon to Flaxman’s designs for Wedgwood plaques and vases. Cosway’s name also imported into Gray’s poem her reputation as a cosmopolitan, cultured woman who had completed the Grand Tour and who moved in elite circles including those of the Prince of Wales in London and the Duke of Orleans, Pierre d’Hancarville and Thomas Jefferson in Paris. The iconographies of the painting, the print, and the poem articulate a European cosmopolitan tradition for British Art

Design & Build Chicago Scale Model for Dynamic Disaster Simulation (Semester Unknown) IPRO 317

The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable

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The model project is complex, involving a good degree of materials consumption and labor, and will require many disciplines working together to produce a consistent and seamless result. With this in mind, careful planning and consistent progress are paramount to ensure the successful completion of the project.Deliverable