by Erin-Lee McGuire | Apr 26, 2017 | Blog
The first day of summer semester approaches rapidly and I am gearing up to head back to the cemetery with a new group of students. I’m revising the syllabus and assignments, updating the CourseSpaces (Moodle) site, and looking through my resources to make sure...
by Melanie Heizer | Apr 5, 2017 | Blog
This past weekend a group of seven past students from the Emanu-El field course took part in the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in Vancouver BC. As an undergraduate student looking at continuing on to a masters degree, this was a hugely exciting...
by Melanie Heizer | Mar 21, 2017 | Blog
Two summers ago I was a student in the first running of the field course (we were awesome Guinea pigs). I was paired with two other students to do fieldwork with, and we decided to do our final project on the use of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) on...
by Melanie Heizer | Feb 26, 2017 | Blog
This spring marks my third year of working in the cemetery with Dr. McGuire and this project. I have had the exciting opportunity to get to conduct independent field work, building on the work that I started in 2015 when I participated in the class. Through out this...
by Brittany Walker | Feb 5, 2017 | Blog
In 2015, I was fortunate enough to be part of the Heritage Archaeology field course with the University of Victoria. Our main focus, at the time, was mapping the Emanu-El Cemetery in Victoria, B.C. while learning about monument assessment and conservation. In the two...
by Nicole Smirl | Jul 7, 2016 | Blog
In all honesty, I had no idea what to expect when I signed on to present my group’s poster at the synagogue recently. I was delighted with the opportunity to re-visit my group’s work and be a part of the project again, but it’s a bit nerve wracking to present on a...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog
Are You Prepared for your Time in the Field? 3 Things I learned from a Month of Cemetery Field Work. #1: Never Underestimate the Elements: Cemetery work is not like other types of archaeological work where you might be in remote areas and unfamiliar settings with no...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | Jun 13, 2016 | Blog
Tuesday May 31st was our last day in the field at the Congregation Emanu-el cemetery. It is now the time for my fellow classmates and myself to take to the pen or in this case, to the keyboard to compile our research into reports, presentation posters, blog entries,...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 27, 2016 | Blog
On Thursday, we visited the UVic Archives in the basement of the McPherson Library. Here are Cole’s thoughts from later that same evening. Today we visited the university archives to look for information regarding the cemetery. We were given a lesson on what...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 27, 2016 | Blog
On Tuesday of this week, students in ANTH395 were subjected to a field quiz, to see how well they understood the fieldwork they were conducting. Here are Maya and Vanessa’s thoughts on the quiz… Our first out-of-classroom quiz: How to tackle a field quiz...
