{"id":11418,"date":"2014-09-01T15:37:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=11418"},"modified":"2014-09-01T15:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T20:37:28","slug":"from-italy-to-antarctica-archaeological-conservation-on-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2014\/09\/01\/from-italy-to-antarctica-archaeological-conservation-on-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"From Italy to Antarctica: Archaeological Conservation on the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"View<\/a>
\nIt\u2019s summer (at least for a few more weeks) and for many of us, that means travel.\u00a0 Some conservators take travel one step further and fly around the world to do archaeological conservation at active excavations.\u00a0 Luckily for us back at home, many of them are blogging about their experiences.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a roundup of several archaeological conservation blogs.
\nThe Mugello Valley Archaeological Project\/Poggio Colla<\/a> has a long tradition of blog posts, going back to the late 90s – before they were even called \u201cblogs.\u201d\u00a0 Recent posts from conservator Allison Lewis can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 I love the use of RTI on incised bucchero sherds<\/a>, as described by Poggio Colla intern and current UCLA grad student Heather White.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Earlier posts from Poggio Colla can be found in the MVAP archives<\/a>.
\nTurkey seems to be the center of archaeological conservation blogs \u2013 it must be all the strong coffee and tea!\u00a0 The conservators and interns at Gordion<\/a>, where I was lucky enough to work one summer, blog about their time working at the ancient Phrygian capital here.\u00a0 This post really captures the feel of village life in central Anatolia<\/a>.\u00a0 A great conservation-related post is this one\u00a0about the on-going conservation of two Roman altars<\/a> rescued from a nearby river.
\nNearby in Turkey, the conservators at Kaman Kalehoyuk<\/a>\u00a0blog about their experiences at the Bronze Age and Iron Age site<\/a>.\u00a0 This post makes nice use of a\u00a0digital microscope<\/a> in examining and sharing pictures of artifacts.\u00a0 Rounding out blogs about the Mediterranean world, the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Dig Diaries<\/a>\u00a0are no longer being updated, but the archived posts still make for interesting reading.
\nThe prize for the blog from the most exotic location, although certainly not the warmest, goes to the tough conservators\u00a0<\/a>of the Ross Sea Heritage Restoration Project in Antarctica, run by the Antarctica Heritage Trust<\/a>.\u00a0 They are doing some amazing work, like the conservation of these newspaper fragments<\/a>\u00a0under challenging conditions.
\nClose to home and happily active again after a temporary closure because of funding, the conservators at U.S.S. Monitor Center<\/a> are blogging about their work conserving the massive remains of the Civil War ironclad.\u00a0 This post gives one an appreciation for the complexity of working on such a large object.<\/a>
\nThat\u2019s it for now.\u00a0 Stay tuned for a future post about museum blogs focused on archaeological conservation.\u00a0 If I missed a blog, feel free to let me know in the comments or via MemberFuse.\u00a0 And I\u2019d love to see more blogs started, especially about archaeological conservation in other parts of the world such\u00a0as Asia or South America.
\nThis post was developed by the AIC’s Archaeological Discussion Group (ADG). \u00a0For more information about ADG, please visit ADG’s Facebook page.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s summer (at least for a few more weeks) and for many of us, that means travel.\u00a0 Some conservators take travel one step further and fly around the world to do archaeological conservation at active excavations.\u00a0 Luckily for us back at home, many of them are blogging about their experiences.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a roundup of several … Continue reading “From Italy to Antarctica: Archaeological Conservation on the Web”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[53,117,119,741],"class_list":["post-11418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-topics","tag-adg","tag-archaeological-conservation","tag-archaeology","tag-outreach-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}