Archaeology of Pull Tabs
Maybe it is time to start using smaller icons. Even the USA starts to feel a little crowded now Jae Piskovitz sent lovely 1963 zip top tabs from Nottingham, New Hampshire. See the full map.
Awesome shipment sent by Evan Jaworski in the Pull Tab Archaeology project. These pull tabs come from ‘Festival Beach’ Austin, Texas. Evan included a detailed description of the place and context where the pull tabs were found and included a GIS map indicating the area of the finds. And most importantly, Pull Tab Archaeology inspired him a …
This was really a nice one! I was contacted a few months ago by Evan Jaworski, from Austin, Texas, a 26 year old G.I.S. specialist and…proud owner of a genuine pull tab collection. It is rare that we encounter people who have their own collection, so I asked if he cared for a video interview. …
Meet Evan, Pull Tab Archaeologist from Austin, Texas!In Pull Tab Archaeology we regularly meet people who care about pull tabs. However, those who entertain their own collection and artwork are rare! Evan surely qualifies! Collecting since approximately 2016, he has an extensive collection of statabs, and especially the older ring pulls. You can see some …
“What if we, against all irony, create an official archaeological typology of ‘pull tabs’? It was this thought which provoked the just as much playful as serious archaeological experiment.” These are the (current! 😉 ) opening lines of an article about our pull tab archaeology project that I have been working on for the last …
As a swimmer, Charles Steiner sees pull tabs regularly on the beaches around San Juan, and decided to collect al few for our project.
“Is this archaeology? I can’t see why it isn’t archaeology!” Archaeologists found a coke can in a 6000 year old silex (flint) mine!
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A new type fell into our mailbox today! Sent by Paolo Sanchez and found a University of California Berkeley campus. Paolo included a long letter in his shipment, explaining how Berkley is a university with roots deep in the 19th century and points out its involvement in the development of nuclear physics and the Free …
Today I counted how many types there are in the typology. Well…it’s 99 types! Which means, the next new type we find is number one hundred!!! Make sure you subscribe to this channel to witness that event. Or follow us on Patreon.https://www.patreon.com/pulltabs Consider sending your pull tabs, too!Buy our World Typology and other stuff at …
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