by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 26, 2016 | Blog
It is hard to believe that our last week in the field has arrived. What an amazing, rich, and wonderful educational experience we are having. It will be difficult to say goodbye to our fellow classmates, all of the volunteers, our professor, and our teaching...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 25, 2016 | Blog
I can’t believe the course is almost over for another year! It feels like we just got started. We’ve made good progress so far, in spite of needing to redo some work from last year (a few of last year’s students forgot to submit their monument...
by Erin-Lee McGuire | May 23, 2016 | Blog
On Thursday, in Anthropology 395 we learned about cleaning gravestones with help from Angela Dyck, a recent graduate from UVic. Working in Emanu-El cemetery has created a bond between my class and the people buried here. It may seem strange as some people were born...
by Taylor | May 12, 2016 | Blog
Tuesday, in our first official class in the Anthropology 395: Heritage Archaeology course we covered a lot more than I expected and perhaps was prepared for. We not only covered in lecture the various aspects of the course, such as monument measurement and mapping,...
by Steven Dawson | Jun 21, 2015 | Blog
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/tombstones.html This site was compiled by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and aims to introduce common epitaphs and motifs found on Jewish grave monuments. It is considerably accessible to those with little to no experience with the...
