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Update #3: Survey Link
Hello all,
Here is the survey link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R2XRRJP
Thank you again for your support.
Colleen & The Maeander Project Team
Update #2: Maeander Project Cancellation
To our wonderful supporters,
Sadly, the Maeander Project is cancelled due to circumstances out of our control. We worked very hard on this project and are deeply grateful for your generous contributions and outstanding support. We will be trying again next year, after we come away from this experience with a lot of hard-won wisdom about the internals and politics of starting a new project in Turkey.
If I can ask one more thing of you, can you please fill out this very short, 5-question survey about your experience with microfunding archaeology.
Thank you,
Colleen & The Maeander Project Team
Update #1: Meet the Maeander Project Team!
Ruth Tringham Ph.D., is the Alice S. Davis Endowed Chair in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. After working on intensive, long term excavations in Serbia and at Çatalhöyük in Turkey, Ruth is exploring survey and landscape as the director of the Maeander Project. She is deeply interested in digital media and will push the project into new and interesting interpretive territory.
Burcu Tung Ph.D. is a lecturer at the University of California, Merced and a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. She has extensive research experience in Turkey, and is a Turkish national. She is the Maeander Project co-director and is very interested in ethnography, history, and documentary film.
Dan Thompson Ph.D. is the Director of Projects at the Global Heritage Fund, and performed his dissertation research in the Dinar Basin in the project study area in 2008. He is deeply familiar with the chronology of the area and with new imaging technologies that allow us to find new sites with aerial photography and Google Earth.
Daniel Eddisford received his M.A. in Archaeology at UCL in 2010 after working as a professional archaeologist in England, Turkey, the U.A.E., Yemen, Qatar, Italy, and Greece for over a decade. He is the Maeander Project field director and pottery specialist.
Colleen Morgan is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is investigating the intersections between digital media and archaeology. She will be handling the bulk of blogging, photo taking, video-making, and, sadly, pottery washing.
John Lowe received his M.A. from the University of Texas and has been working as a professional archaeologist in Texas since 2004. He has extensive survey experience and will be happy to help out on his first project in the Old World.
Yasemin Özarslan is a Ph.D. student at Boğaziçi University in Turkey and has participated in a variety of excavations and survey projects across Turkey.
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Funding Canceled
Funding for this project was canceled by the project creator on July 11, 2011.
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You will receive a digital copy of the E-book that we compile at the end of the project including all of the photographs, blog entries, videos, and archaeological information that we obtain during our time in the Dinar Basin.
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Ever want a telephone call from Istanbul? We will do the next best thing--a postcard from Turkey with a personalized message from the Team.
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You will receive an archive-quality print of your choice: a page of archaeological field notes OR a print of a drawing of an actual artifact collected by the team.
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The cream of the crop, the very best five 4" x 6"photographs taken during the season will be yours, on archival-quality photo paper. These will be a mix of site shots, archaeologists in action, local folks, and the gorgeous scenery of the Maeander River.
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A lovely 8" x 10" print on archival paper of the very best photograph from the season, signed by all of the members of the team.
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Your very own Maeander Project 2011 team t-shirt! Most archaeologists collect shirts from the various projects they've been on throughout the years--get a little piece of history yourself! The shirts will be available in most sizes.
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Get your very own Maeander Project engraved team trowel. We will send you your very own WHS pointing trowel, the blade engraved to forever document your contribution to archaeological research.
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Get the very stuff of history--your own original drawing of an artifact or a site recovered by the Maeander Project team. Archaeologists pride themselves on their illustration skills and each drawing will also include notes regarding the region the artifact was found in, as well as information about how the artifact was made, and what period it was from. Byzantine, Islamic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic...even Paleolithic artifacts have been found in the region.
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A digital copy not enough? Get each of the mentioned awards AND a nicely printed copy of the E-book we will generate, signed by each member of the team.
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Colleen Morgan is an archaeology Ph.D. candidate in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving her B.A. in Anthropology/Asian Studies in 2004 at the University of Texas, Colleen worked as a professional archaeologist. Since that time, she has worked in Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Greece, Texas, Hawaii and California, excavating sites 100 years old and 9,000 years old and anything in-between. Her dissertation is based on building archaeological narratives with New Media, using digital photography, video, mobile and locative devices. She is deeply interested in excavation methodology, high falutin’ theory, interstitial spaces, skeuomorphs and good bourbon.
Ms. Morgan and Maeander Project Team,
No doubt we supports are sadden by the lost of your project. We all have such High hopes and are at a lost as to why the project was cancelled. I am sure if we all can next year we would support the Maeander's team again. It does not matter the amount or the source of our giving but it does comes from our hearts. I hope that counts for next year too. IF we are able, is there a Sister Archaeological Project that you or the team can suggest for those of us who can support them in lue of the Maeander Project> While most here know you or others on the team, others like myself only know of you and the team. Still, is there another Archaeological Projects some one can suggest since it is the truth of our history that should be the only concern and goal we are seeking? Many thanks and kindness offered freely ~~~ fred,