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We were very proud to have Veronica represent the ACLQ Project in a fabulous session on Chinese Diaspora archaeology at ...
01/21/2020

We were very proud to have Veronica represent the ACLQ Project in a fabulous session on Chinese Diaspora archaeology at in too!

Congrats Veronica on a wonderful paper. Congrats Chelsea Rose and Doug Ross on a fantastic session!

Hello All! We're back from Winter Break and from in ! We had a great time presenting about the project! Megan, Suzan...
01/21/2020

Hello All!

We're back from Winter Break and from in ! We had a great time presenting about the project!
Megan, Suzanne, Marco, and Shane all presented on the ACLQ project or on Stanford Archaeology!

Thank you as well to our amazing collaborators in the campus archaeology session Jeff, Autumn, and Stacey from Michigan State University and Kate, Nikki, and Kelly from the University of Montana!

You guys are amazing and are doing fantastic research!!

More pictures are to come!

Hello All!Here are the meanings of the symbols on the Four Seasons vessel that we showed earlier!On the left is a peach,...
10/27/2019

Hello All!

Here are the meanings of the symbols on the Four Seasons vessel that we showed earlier!

On the left is a peach, which represents longevity. The Flowers of the Four Seasons (peony, lotus, chrysanthemum, and plum) represent the eternal cycle of the year, which each blooming and fading in its season. The peach is in the center of the vessel we found, which is its usual placement.

On the right is an Eternal Knot, representing the endlessness and connectedness of eternity. The knot is on the base, or underside, of the vessel - also a fairly usual placement.

We just recently recovered this beautiful incised Chinese porcelain bowl rim! This is the first sherd we have found with...
10/26/2019

We just recently recovered this beautiful incised Chinese porcelain bowl rim! This is the first sherd we have found with this gorgeous decorative technique!

This beautiful bowl with the Four Seasons Flowers design on it came out of the midden today! Do any of you know what the...
10/25/2019

This beautiful bowl with the Four Seasons Flowers design on it came out of the midden today!

Do any of you know what the symbol on the base and the symbol in the center of the interior are and what they mean?

Drop your answers in the comments section. We'll let you know tomorrow about the significance of the two designs!

Here's a beautiful Bamboo pattern rice bowl fragment from the northern end of the midden. We love finding sherds that ha...
10/25/2019

Here's a beautiful Bamboo pattern rice bowl fragment from the northern end of the midden.

We love finding sherds that have both the howl's rim and base, because we can learn so much about the original vessel that way!

Here's something to light up your week!We recovered this lamp base from a unit at the edge of the midden. Here's hoping ...
10/24/2019

Here's something to light up your week!

We recovered this lamp base from a unit at the edge of the midden.

Here's hoping it brightens your evening!

Dig in!Here is a beautiful copper alloy spoon that we found in the midden. What do you think of the pattern? Pictured: o...
10/04/2019

Dig in!

Here is a beautiful copper alloy spoon that we found in the midden.

What do you think of the pattern?

Pictured: our spoon all cleaned up, close-ups of the design, and the spoon fresh from the field! Quite the before and after!

P.S. We're partially sorry for the bad pun!

This white ball clay to***co pipe came out of our midden. It was manufactured by William White in Glasgow Scotland betwe...
10/04/2019

This white ball clay to***co pipe came out of our midden.

It was manufactured by William White in Glasgow Scotland between 1891 and 1899.

It is always exciting when we can get such a tight date range!

In this case, we were able to get a firm early date because the pipe stem is marked "Scotland" rather than "Glasgow" on the reverse. This indicates that it was made after the US introduced the McKinley Tariff Act in October of 1890 (largely in effect, though, by 1891).

The end date of the range comes from the fact that William White produced pipes marked "W. White" until 1899. After this point, the company only used the "W. White & Sons" mark that they had used from 1805 (they used it up through 1955, making them one of the last pipe manufacturers to close!).

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Here is a gorgeous rim sherd decorated with the Four Seasons Flowers design. Do you know which flower is depicted here a...
09/21/2019

Here is a gorgeous rim sherd decorated with the Four Seasons Flowers design.

Do you know which flower is depicted here and which season it represents?

Hello all!We are delighted to announce that we have reached over 100 followers on Instagram! Thank you for your interest...
09/21/2019

Hello all!

We are delighted to announce that we have reached over 100 followers on Instagram!

Thank you for your interest in this wonderful research project and the story the archaeology, oral history, and primary source documents can tell!

As a community-based archaeological research project, we appreciate your interest and involvement!

Thank you to those of you who follow the project here on Facebook and Twitter as well!

Some shots from inside the midden today. Pictured: Garrett measuring the depth of the midden in one the units; Yue excav...
09/18/2019

Some shots from inside the midden today.

Pictured: Garrett measuring the depth of the midden in one the units; Yue excavates through the midden deposit in another unit.

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