Hi. This is ORARI. I had to register again as Tennguy. This is an update on where we are with the new blog entitled Can Artifact Collectors and Archaeologists Find a Way to Get Along and Collaborate More? This means artifact collectors and archaeologists working together, sharing collector site knowledge, sharing useful information about artifact collections, and other kinds of mutual interaction to advance archaeological research and knowledge in our American future. The blog is located at the following link:
Please recall that KyFlintGuy and I are the moderators for this new blog---which in no way threatens the much larger and more important Arrowheads.com forum because we are a temporary, one-issue blog set up for archaeological research purposes and problem solving only. Several months ago, we cordially invited all the artifact collectors who visit this forum to come over to the new blog every once in a while and participate by loosening up your typing fingers and writing the requested information in under our 10 information collection categories that can be clicked on in the black band at the top of our blog Main Page. We still would very much like to have as much artifact collector input as we can get because your thoughts, opinions, ideas, feelings, and concern are important to us and extremely valuable to our effort---and to be quite frank about it---this effort will just plain not work without collector input under the 10 categories on the new blog. Please participate and send the word out to all of your other artifact collector friends and acquaintances. Would anyone like to volunteer to forward this message to the Arrowheadology.com forum and anywhere else on the worldwide web where American artifact collectors congregate? Many of you would know how to get the word out better than me because you are familiar with all of the societies and organizations that support collectors.
As previously mentioned, our very first request for artifact collector participation was sent out to Arrowheads.com on this forum earlier in 2015. It was our understanding that the professional archaeologists would come to the new blog to do their own participation starting in November 2015 with the publication of a formal invitation to do so in The SAA Archaeological Record. This invitation was just published last night. The SAA Archaeological Record is a regular, bimonthly magazine publication of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). For any of you who might not know, the SAA is the primary membership organization for professional archaeologists working in the western hemisphere, which of course includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.. This month’s edition of The SAA Archaeological Record contains a series of articles organized and edited by my colleagues and friends Dr. Bonnie Pitblado in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, and Dr. Michael Shott in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. All three of us share a research interest in the potential for increasing future consultations and collaborations between professional archaeologists and responsible artifact collectors. The overall set of eight different articles by various authors is entitled Pros and Cons of Consulting Collectors. You may read these excellent articles at the following link:
http://digitaleditions.sheridan.com/...97&pre=1#login
The articles reflect current thinking by some people in the professional archaeology camp, but this thinking is subject to future redirection and revision based on the results of future interactions with artifact collectors and a wider range of archaeologists, so if something rubs you the wrong way, it is not written in stone. In fact, I hope that you would read the articles just to get an idea of how professional archaeologists are thinking, and if something concerns you or if you have a question, go over to the new blog and write out your concern or question under one or more of the 10 clickable information categories on the new blog. That is precisely the kind of input we need from you ladies and gentlemen here at the Arrowheads.com forum.
Thank you in advance for your time, interest, and help. Have a nice evening. If you would like to get in touch with our two moderators, we can be reached by e-mail at the addresses listed at the following link:
Please recall that KyFlintGuy and I are the moderators for this new blog---which in no way threatens the much larger and more important Arrowheads.com forum because we are a temporary, one-issue blog set up for archaeological research purposes and problem solving only. Several months ago, we cordially invited all the artifact collectors who visit this forum to come over to the new blog every once in a while and participate by loosening up your typing fingers and writing the requested information in under our 10 information collection categories that can be clicked on in the black band at the top of our blog Main Page. We still would very much like to have as much artifact collector input as we can get because your thoughts, opinions, ideas, feelings, and concern are important to us and extremely valuable to our effort---and to be quite frank about it---this effort will just plain not work without collector input under the 10 categories on the new blog. Please participate and send the word out to all of your other artifact collector friends and acquaintances. Would anyone like to volunteer to forward this message to the Arrowheadology.com forum and anywhere else on the worldwide web where American artifact collectors congregate? Many of you would know how to get the word out better than me because you are familiar with all of the societies and organizations that support collectors.
As previously mentioned, our very first request for artifact collector participation was sent out to Arrowheads.com on this forum earlier in 2015. It was our understanding that the professional archaeologists would come to the new blog to do their own participation starting in November 2015 with the publication of a formal invitation to do so in The SAA Archaeological Record. This invitation was just published last night. The SAA Archaeological Record is a regular, bimonthly magazine publication of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA). For any of you who might not know, the SAA is the primary membership organization for professional archaeologists working in the western hemisphere, which of course includes the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central America, and South America.. This month’s edition of The SAA Archaeological Record contains a series of articles organized and edited by my colleagues and friends Dr. Bonnie Pitblado in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, and Dr. Michael Shott in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. All three of us share a research interest in the potential for increasing future consultations and collaborations between professional archaeologists and responsible artifact collectors. The overall set of eight different articles by various authors is entitled Pros and Cons of Consulting Collectors. You may read these excellent articles at the following link:
http://digitaleditions.sheridan.com/...97&pre=1#login
The articles reflect current thinking by some people in the professional archaeology camp, but this thinking is subject to future redirection and revision based on the results of future interactions with artifact collectors and a wider range of archaeologists, so if something rubs you the wrong way, it is not written in stone. In fact, I hope that you would read the articles just to get an idea of how professional archaeologists are thinking, and if something concerns you or if you have a question, go over to the new blog and write out your concern or question under one or more of the 10 clickable information categories on the new blog. That is precisely the kind of input we need from you ladies and gentlemen here at the Arrowheads.com forum.
Thank you in advance for your time, interest, and help. Have a nice evening. If you would like to get in touch with our two moderators, we can be reached by e-mail at the addresses listed at the following link:
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