Archaeology of Pull Tabs
Update 21, with latest mailings by..YOU..and more on William Schroeders’ visit to Europe. He was back in Washington only just in time to prevent being stuck due to Corona lockdown.
Awesome article on our project by Jessica Leigh Hester for Atlas Obscura. Thanks Jessica, I loved working together on this. Click on the link for the article.
Last Sunday , February 2, we had an interview at @NPOradio1 Fris! You can listen it as a podcast,. The interviews starts at minute 1.12. hours if you listen the whole program, following this link: https://www.nporadio1.nl/fris Have Fun!
I make a strong point in our project about the typology: we can not add pull tabs that are not in the reference collection physically. The reason being that 1) differences are small, so I do really need them in my hands for proper recording and 2) it challenges YOU to really contribute with more …
Sorry, this is in Dutch, but I’ll explain. Elsbeth from Leiden (the Netherlands) did NOT send pull tabs from Iceland for the Pull Tab Project. Why? Well there is no litter in the streets in Iceland! None! Ain’t that cool! I have recorded her mailing anyway…of course!
I just returned from the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference in London, where I receive a really nice gift from Dr. Sefryn Penrose, the departing chair of CHAT (www.chat-arch.com). It is a ring pull artwork ceramic plate! The classic motive of the plate was tastefully enriched with S-VI type pull tabs, bringing together …
Our dream is to make a complete archaeological pull tab typology for the entire world crowdsourced by you. Join the community! Send us your tabs.
Our dream is to make an archaeological pull tab typology for the entire world. Join the community! Send us your tabs.
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