Releasing the Amphora - TAG (Syracuse)
At the 2019 meetings of the Theoretical Archaeology Group at Syracuse University, Doug Bailey used a lump-hammer to smash a historic period amphora from excavations that preceded the building of the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco. Doug then gave individual fragments to anyone in attendance who wanted one and asked them to take the fragments back home, to work, on vacation or wherever they were going. The only request was that fragment adopters should share reports on what there fragments were doing, where they were traveling…basically whatever they got up to.
Fragment adopters have been sending updates about their fragments’ activities to the project’s Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/Releasing-the-Amphora-347052559341222/
Here is a short video from the session.