Projects talk:Urban Deposition Definition

I'm really excited about this project, both in terms of methodology and experience. So much of my experience of being in spaces among other people has to do with such markers. Reminds me of a favorite Jonathan Richman songs Chewing Gum Wrapper from the Rockin and Romance Album. I dealt with some related ideas in a project installed at GVSU devos center called 'Mundus Imaginalis'. I wonder if there is a more quickly heard and understood name for the project. Urban Deposition Definition could be a subtitle. I found myself working to remember and get my mind around this one. It also caused me to think about how it could work on the wiki in terms of structure. It seems each item could be an article and they could be indexed on the Project page. I'm actually thinking of restructuring the Projects:Oldest Tree in this way. I think it would work better as something like 'project:remarkable trees' or 'special tree', or maybe it is better with no prescriptive claim to value with something like 'project:trees'. I like the wiki getting thick with grains of interesting things. Paul 16:40, 10 July 2007 (EDT)

I'm glad you're into the idea, Paul. Would Creative Archaeology be a more approachable title? We could brainstorm a new name. Buckshot 09:30, 12 July 2007 (EDT)

I think Creative Archeology is better. I've been thinking about it and looking in the thesaurus. For me "Creative" has some undesirable meanings. I'm up for more brainstorming. What do you think about having each item have a separate article? There might be some useful methodologies in the discipline of Material Culture. Paul 00:49, 14 July 2007 (EDT)

Yeah, let's keep thinking. As for how reports are posted, I really have no preference because to me, my interest in this idea is in the method. The output and sharing of studies with others is crucial to the community aspects of any discipline, but the relationship between the finder, the object, and the depositer is most important to me. I haven't much knowledge of Material Culture as a discipline, but that the term is used in the study of Anthropological Archaeology, which seeks to recreate an accurate picture of former human conditions thorugh material culture. Buckshot 09:51, 14 July 2007 (EDT)