{"id":140,"date":"2011-07-06T22:57:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-07-06T22:57:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T22:57:31","slug":"well-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/2011\/07\/06\/well-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, we&#8217;re off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and I have made it through the first leg of our journey. We checked into the Cleveland airport with over 200 pounds of luggage, mostly equipment and supplies with a few clothes used as packing material around the computers, total station, electrical restivity meter, etc. Needless to say, archaeologists present a rather unusual challenge for TSA and the airlines. We found out the hard way that a stripped-down frame for an RM15 resitivity setup is NOT allowed as carry-on by TSA. They were unimpressed with my detailed explanation of its use and value. It was a bit of a mad dash back through security to check the frame and get to our gate.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose I should introduce Chelsea Jalbrzikowski. She is a former UAkron undergraduate, now enrolled as a graduate student in Forensic and Biological Anthropology at Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pennsylvania. This is Chelsea&#8217;s third season with us and is coming out to collect information for her M.A. thesis, studying a collection of Assyrian skeletons, including some very unusual cremation burials found buried under the courtyard pavement of the Bronze Palace. Chelsea also has learned a lot (perhaps more than she wants) about Assyrian pottery and completed a geophysical survey for us in 2009. One of the characteristics of a good field archaeologist is versatility; it&#8217;s important to be able to take on whatever tasks need doing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/files\/2011\/07\/CIMG13752.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/files\/2011\/07\/CIMG13752-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chelsea excavating a human skull in Operation R in 2010.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have a few hours more in Chicago, then it&#8217;s on to Istanbul. We are meeting up with more of the crew in Diyarbakir tomorrow night, but I&#8217;ll wait to introduce them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea and I have made it through the first leg of our journey. We checked into the Cleveland airport with over 200 pounds of luggage, mostly equipment and supplies with a few clothes used as packing material around the computers, total station, electrical restivity meter, etc. Needless to say, archaeologists present a rather unusual challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-logbook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/ziyaret\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}