May 28
First day on the archaeology job, forced to learn braille.
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First day on the archaeology job, forced to learn braille.
Castle Dump for Christmas 🎄✨
Torv Town (5176S 19007E, part 2)
This post is a continuation of the previous one.
Interior of the art gallery. Shares a similar fate to the other image focused building we saw near the eye mural.
Returning the way we came and going right down the road from the gate immediately greets us with a furniture shoppe with a similar purpose to the previous one.
Once upon a time (2002), the owner(s) of this store would have made a requesting citizen a custom piece of furniture.
I guess this confirms the suspicions we had about that box earlier.
Upstairs.
The offerings.
Leaving the shoppe and continuing right from the gate greets us with the town's signage.
Across from the signage is a plaza with teleportation buttons taking the citizen to different parts of Torv Town. Through this, we can get some context on previous areas.
Our mysterious tiny box is in fact a prison, no doubt for the citizens who misbehaved, if any.
The building we went through to enter Torv Town is known as the "Great Hall".
The house immediately closest to the eye mural is simply "Cabin Behind The Falls".
The playground next to the teleportation plaza.
"Do Not Go Here if you are afraid of spiders". Presumably would have had spiders on the blank spaces back in the day.
"Tarn Cots". Connected to the field we saw earlier.
"Christmas Hide away".
"Scamps Get Away". A completely empty plaza near the prison. Probably meant for something at one point.
"My Island Under Construction :)" teleports you to 5508S 18975E. Moving at all during this process will cause you to become embedded in the ground.
The only notable structure here.
And... oh, dear. It seems our big eye mural from earlier may not be connected to Torv Town at all, as the "Top Of The Falls" teleport appears to embed us in the ground beneath or near the mural. Unfortunate, but at least it serves a landmark purpose even if unauthorised.
Turning our attention now to the teleporters to the left, all of which appearing to be personal to different citizens. None of the destinations are situated inside Torv Town or the surrounding area. They also won't be shown off here beyond their destination coordinates due to their nature as texture yards, which would take forever to showcase.
"A great texture yard" teleports us quite a ways away from Torv Town, all the way to 1934N 10E. Unlike other imagery based areas we've seen thus far, some of the texturing here seems to have survived the modernisation of the Internet.
"Adagio's Yard" teleports us to 471N 1502E.
"Kellie's yard" teleports us to 1379N 1853W.
"Brenda's Yard" teleports us to 15761N 51E.
"A Must See Texture Yard" is a duplicate teleport of "A great texture yard".
Finally, "Lara's Building Teleports" takes us to 23622N 23559W. Rather than a texture yard, it's another teleporting system.
This about wraps up the notability of Torv Town, the largest expedition we've been on so far, but certainly not the largest we'll go on total. As with the other showcased locations on this blog, you're implored to explore this area yourself. :o)
I haven't put this up on Academia.edu or ResearchGate.net yet because the Internet in Teuchitlan is being really slow. But here's a Google Drive link to the text followed by the slides.
Enjoy!
Orcs that are more like 1st edition D&D.
I based the faces on warthogs
It’s been a ridiculously long time since the last Arte-Factual deep dive. I’d almost forgotten how much I enjoyed researched and writing these articles! So without further ado, let’s take a look at one of the many Mesoamerican-inspired artefacts Lara Croft found in Paititi’s Hidden City: the metatl.
Continue reading the full article over on Tomb Raider Horizons!
It's because of you i had the thought of "wow the archeology of this place would be wild wish there was a fanfic about it" while playing a video game.
Have you ever had a similar thought while playing/watching something?
Great news: you don't even need a fanfic to experience video game archaeology! Check out archaeogaming-- it's archaeology in and of video games.
I've never really been a huge video game person, so I'll admit that I don't really know much about any specific video games and what would make good archaeology. But there are people out there thinking about it!
I'm honored that I was able to spark this thought!
-Reid
CALL FOR PAPERS
My friend and I are running a session at the 2019 TAG Archaeology conference in London! The topic is the archaeology and history of gaming 😃🎮♟🎲
Confused? Fair enough 😅 If you’re wondering how the archaeology of games (otherwise known as Archaeogaming!) works, we made a zine about it:
https://florencesmithnicholls.itch.io/archaeogaming-zine
We welcome papers from ANYONE. If you have a good idea, send it our way! If you’ve never done this before and need help or have questions let us know 🙂 You can find all the details here:
https://powerplaytag2019.home.blog/
If you can’t come to London but still want to get involved we will also have a Twitter conference running alongside our session 😊💻📱