Rebecca Harris

Rebecca Harris

May 21, 2018

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FULLY FUNDED!

Thank you to all our backers for believing in us and becoming a part of our research project, "Coquina in My Backyard". We are excited to get started, unfortunately it has been raining cats, dogs, bullfrogs, and tree frogs in New Smyrna for an entire week solid which makes field work beyond a general misery and moves into the territory of impossible. We may get started a bit later than we had hoped in our field tests, but we are certainly working on getting all our materials and minds ready for the challenge while we wait for the rain to stop (at the moment I'm writing we have another 6-7 DAYS forecast of intense tropical rain). That's life in the subtropics after all--it will stop eventually.

If you receive an email from us asking you to complete a form, it is so we can fulfill our side of the funding request and send you the contribution level goody bag.

Again, thank you so much for funding our archaeological research and becoming part of the SARI team!

Rebecca and Kate, Smyrnéa Archaeological Research Institute

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    Dig on!! Oh wait!! Archeologists don't DIG Mondays! T J England
    May 21, 2018

About This Project

Coquina is a sedimentary "rock" also called shellstone. There are two large coquina structures that were built during or just after the British colony of Smyrnéa (1768-1777). Each of these sites is plagued by a lack of reliable data. Our research will use a hand held 3D scanner and pattern recognition/enhancement applications to identify the hallmarks of colonial tools/masonry to determine if various coquina materials are remnants of colonial buildings.

Blast off!

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