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James Green
@archeaids.bsky.social
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Southeast US archaeologist posting about archaeology, history, geology, maps, LiDAR, botany, fossils, & other things. GIS specialist. Lithic, native ceramic, & historic artifact analyst.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · Nov 13
I'm literally overwhelmed with new followers. I hope you will find my varied posts entertaining, educational, informative & cats. Whoops! Seriously, thank you for following me. I'm always open to questions.
Collage of archaeology, geology, illustration, artifacts, ceramics, & LiDAR with a header saying "Welcome to my Blue Sky account" with topics: Archaeology, Geology, History, Artifacts, Botany, Cats, Scenery, Ceramics, Maps, Illustrations, LiDAR & Flintknapping.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 10h
🤣🤣🤣

A old archaeology friend I've not talked to in 5 years called. Said he went to the local museum, where the curator asked him if he knew me because his last name was the same as a site I've written about. She said I talked so fast explaining things that she had a hard time keeping up.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 10h
The less available O2, the darker the ferric oxide in the ceramic. In the future, by adding/subtracting the sand volume in the stainless steel pot, I should be able darken or lighten the pots on demand. 5/ #ceramics
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 11h
Since we can't create a reduced environment in the kiln, we have to create it post-firing. The color change is ferric oxide. Oxygenated, it is shades of orange/red, but cut off the oxygen & the iron in the ceramic turns dark gray to brown depending on reduced or neutral O2. 4/ #ceramics #archaeology
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 11h
Knowing something in theory or even in practice in a different firing method doesn't mean it'll work. I put the red-hot pot on kiln furniture on a bed of dry sand (oven dried) in a stainless steel pot (I had bought for blackening ceramics with leaves) & closed the lid. 3/ #ceramics #archaeology
pot in pot on sand.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 11h
Interior of the Chevalier Rocker Stamped variety Perry (Coles Creek culture ca. 10560-1200 CE) reproduction pot after firing. 2/ #ceramics #archaeology
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 11h
The Chevalier Rocker Stamped variety Perry (Coles Creek culture ca. 10560-1200 CE) reproduction pot before (L) & after (R) firing. 1/ #ceramics #archaeology
L) cup-like pot in unfired gray clay with squiggle lines in rocker stamping dangling from an incised rim line. R) same but fired the a brown color.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 13h
We do prefer to fire using wood in a dug fire pit, but sometimes that's not possible. We had one conference where we had to fire everything in non-optimal conditions a week before the conference because we had months of bad firing weather.

It Louisiana...
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 13h
We bought this small kiln so we could fire small pots & pipes when under burn bans or it was too windy or wet. Today's firing was for 2 purposes: check a lower firing temp & figure out how to create a post-firing reduced environment to make the ceramics look more authentic.

Win on both. #ceramics
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 14h
750°C, it red. #ceramics #archaeology
Small cup-like clay pot in kiln.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
How DUMB can you be?

Guy calls: You Jay?

Me: No

Him: So&so just gave me your number

Wrong number

You not Jay?

No

Let me speak to Jay

You have the wrong number

I know it Jay's number, so&so just gave it to me!

Nope

You live above Albany?

No

You got white hair?

No

The number is good

No
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
Hammond. Normally it would be loaded, but those 2 photos says it all. Not even any on the ground. I think the real young fruit fell off months ago.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
Ours are suffering from the drought. They are drying on the tree.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
It should be noted that Christopher Columbus never found or set foot in what is now the United States.

I read years ago that on his death bed he refused to admit that he did not find an ocean route to the East.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
Ann said, "I married someone who can:

Make pots in a campfire
Make stone tools & weapons
Make & use a bow & arrows
Make & use a spear
Make & use a blow gun
Make & use a fish trap
Knows wild plant foods

I'm set for the apocalypse."
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
Common persimmon (Diospyros virginiana) was a staple for Indigenous people in the Southeast (US) as a food source &, planted around fields, a lure to animals. #botany #Indigenous #archaeology
Ripe persimmon on tree 2 ripe persimmons on tree
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
Patch kitty during #gaming last night. #cats
Orange tabby asleep in lap
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 1d
It is Indigenous Peoples Day. May Indigenous rights keep expanding around the world. #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
Are you finished #gaming yet? I want to go to bed! #cats
Sleepy orange cat in lap
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
A tale of two white beads.

These are both made of Andalusia, Alabama, kaolin clay. The bottom one was fired at 900°C, while the top one was fired ay 860°C.

The clay had some minor veins of ferric oxide, so I assume the bottom bead had a little in the clay. #ceramics
Tube beads. Top) diamond crosshatch incisions & punctations. Bottom) rows of stamped diagonal ticks.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
My hand is cramping. Time to take a break from engraving. #ceramics #archaeology
Pipe & flakes under a magnifying lamp.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
#Football platter. 🏈
Glass partitioned platter with cuts of pear, 3 types of cheese & 3 types of crackers.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
The blackened Caddo pipe. It is far from finished. #ceramics #archaeology
Circles & crosshatching on 45° angle pipe.
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
The yellow bead with triangular punctation blackened nicely. #ceramics
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
At 860° C (1540° F) the pipe & beads were glowing red-hot. #ceramics #archaeology
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James Green @archeaids.bsky.social · 2d
Firing 2 beads & the Caddo pipe this morning. All are different clays. #ceramics
Recording sheet The beads & pupe. Yellow bead, white bead & dark brown pipe.
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