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 Emily Badger | May 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Jewish Cemetery. Image by: Emily Badger Our class is coming up to close and there are projects to be done! I told myself that I would return to the cemetery over the long weekend, but my cousin came down to surprise me. This pushed my schedule back so I spent my...
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...
