Prince Rupert Update
Line Guard Harpoon Points from the Prince Rupert Harbour
Today’s installment of our Prince Rupert Harbour Harpoon Point Series showcases barbed harpoon points with line guards! These artifacts all come from Prince Rupert Harbour Sites GbTo-13 and 54.
Read MoreStone (not Brass) Knuckles?
When you click on the image on the left for 3D, you’ll open a window where you can use your mouse to roll the artifact around. There are some other interesting things you can play with in the options. If you can’t see it at all, leave a note and we’ll upload a video showing both colour and grey-scale 3D images. Or if you like, check out the 3D video below!
Read MoreBarbed Slate Harpoons
Today’s second installment of harpoons includes one of the most remarkable and unique artifacts ever recovered on the Northwest Coast; at least we at Millennia think so!
Read MoreDrilled Line Hole Harpoons
Today’s showcase items are unilaterally barbed harpoon points with drilled line perforations from the Prince Rupert Harbour sites of GbTo-13 and 54. We’ve found a plugin that allows you to zoom in on the full resolution photo – click on the image and try it! We think these are some of the clearest artifact illustrations you’ll find anywhere. Great work, Andrew Eckert!
Read More“Foam Finger” Awls
We’ll start posting new results from lab work and eye candy artifact photos here every few days; we’ll do a mix of microscope and standard photos (the latter are Andrew Eckert’s superlative work), 3D scans of artifacts (Gordon Dudoward’s great work) and 3D GIS work by Alyssa Parker displaying feature and artifact distributions.
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