Concrete foundations

With electricity for the new facility now in place, the pace of construction has picked up considerably. This week has seen a lot of fill removal and trenches dug to prepare for pouring the concrete of the new foundation. And just in the nick of time! The first snow flakes of the season were falling on the site this morning.

Getting started

With the new facility finally under construction, our focus is now on developing our relational database infrastructure, working out the protocols for artifact management and digital transformation and preparing to purchase our equipment. We have already purchased a ground penetrating radar and are in the process of acquiring a magnetic gradiometer for detecting sub-surface features used for reconstructing archaeological landscapes.

New GPR in action

John Moody, a graduate student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Western Ontario, takes the new Ground Penetrating Radar for a spin in Victoria Park in downtown London. This is a SIR-3000 system with 400 MHz antenna from Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc.

Breaking ground!

Construction is finally underway out at the museum!

Our website is now live! Check us out at: http://www.sustainablearchaeology.org/

Site of the new Sustainable Archaeology building at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology

We've Got a General Contractor!

We have secured a General Contractor to construct the new SA building. A silt fence is being erected and the perimeter of the construction site is currently being laid out. It is exciting to finally see some physical movement on the project after such an extended period of planning!