Cemetery Crew adventures to the SAAs!

Cemetery Crew adventures to the SAAs!

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...
Intro to: Going Digital in the Cemetery

Intro to: Going Digital in the Cemetery

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...
Community and Memory

Community and Memory

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...
Returning to the Community

Returning to the Community

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...

Bringing fieldwork full circle

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...