I really love playing fantasy football and planned on only playing in one league this year. Somehow I am now in 3 leagues, two of which are drafting on the same day. Being in Jordan I will have very little time for my teams this year, but I thought I would pay homage to my current hometown. So, my team name in each league is “the Amman Citadels.” Here is the team logo I whipped up:
Temple of Zeus and Goal Post
I wanted to highlight some of the work I did for the last map from my previous post. One of my goals when doing the survey work was to get enough high quality photographs and corresponding GPS points to be able to georeference the pictures in Arcmap. Georeferencing is the process of aligning spatial data (in this GPS points) to an image file (in this case photographs of architecture). By doing this I can check previously drawn top plans of architecture and make adjustments or if I want I can use GIS Arcmap to draw new top plans. This ability is especially important because there are a few squares excavated where original top plans were never drawn. Below is a picture of the photographs from Area C georeferenced.
I have been extremely busy over the last couple weeks. I finished my survey work, scanned material in the Salt Museum, worked on getting my project report in to the DOAJ, and worked on my ACOR fellow’s lecture. All of this is now done and its back to scanning.
During the last few weeks we realized that the amount of pottery (115 crates worth) I have to sort is too great to finish in August and so I am now staying through October. So this last week was also taken up with changing my ticket (a huge process) and finding a place to stay. I found a nice little one bedroom near the University of Jordan. It has a small washing machine, a kitchenette, and wireless so I am all set. I will now be returning on the 30th of October (and then two weeks later flying out to San Francisco for the annual archaeology meetings).
One of the main things I was working on for the fellows talk and the department report were new maps for Safut made using the GPS points I took during the survey work. Below are two maps, the first showing the areas excavated (compared to the original site map) and the second showing the possibilities of the software with georeferenced pictures of areas A-C and the perimeter walls highlighted.
New Site Map
Old Site Map
