Name: Christian Graves
E-mail: cgraves@archaeology.csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-06 04:47:32
Message:
This is a test message.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-07 04:59:47
Message:
This is a test of the Wireless Guest Book and
Online Journal.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-14 05:57:53
Message:
This is a test of the updated and revised Wireless
Journal.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:17:17
Message:
This is the first successful test of the Wireless
Journal -- via wireless transmission -- from
the campus quad in front of Building 18.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:25:35
Message:
This is the second successful test of the iPaq
3950-based Wireless Journal from a position
75 paces from the west end of the quad in front
of Building 18. The Toshiba e740 -- being tested
by Christian Graves does nit have the range
necessary for unencumbered wireless transmissions
in the archaeology transect survey lab.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:30:55
Message:
This is the third successful test of the iPaq
3958 wireless PDA on the campus quad 150 paces
from the start point to the west. The Toshiba
e740 also obtains good reception at this point
in the test.
Name: Christian Graves
Date: 2003-02-19 08:33:37
Message:
Successful test from 150 paces via Toshiba e740
Name: Christian Graves
Date: 2003-02-19 08:35:16
Message:
Test @ 175 paces. Had to move closer to buildings
for more accurate reception.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:36:05
Message:
This is the fourth successful test of the iPaq
3950 based Wireless Journal from a position
located 225 paces from the starting point. Location:
West end of Library.
Name: Christian Graves
Date: 2003-02-19 08:37:14
Message:
Test @ beginning of library (226 paces)
Name: Christian Graves
Date: 2003-02-19 08:39:57
Message:
Test at middle of library (278 paces)
Name: Christian Graves
Date: 2003-02-19 08:44:10
Message:
Test at end of library (325 paces) Poor reception
@ 278 paces as well as 325 paces.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:45:59
Message:
This constitutes the fifth and final successful
test of the iPaq 3950-based Wireless Journal
at a distance of 300 paces from the start point.
The Toshiba e740 lost range at the 275 pace
point in front of the Library, and Christian
Graves was forced to reconnect at a point just
outside the front dors of the Library building.
At 325 paces the Toshiba e740 has bogged down
to a snails pace.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-02-19 08:50:14
Message:
This is the 6th and final successful test of
the iPaq 3950-based Wireless Journal at a distance
of 325 paces from the start point. Location:
East end of Library.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-03-06 02:06:09
Message:
This is the first successful test of the Wireless
Journal using a Toshiba e740 Pocket PC from
the Carmel Mission. Transmission of this journal
entry was by way of broadband sarellite installed
this day at the Carmel Mission. This is a milestone
for our Wireless Technologies in Archaeology
Project.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-03-12 12:36:43
Message:
This is a test for conflicts pertaining to the
use of the "apostrophe" for data entry.
This problem occured on at least one occasion
during our remote field test from the Carmel
Mission this past Friday. Your's, ', The Great
Communicator's lesson plan, Archaeologist's,
etc'.
Name: Ruben Mendooza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-03 11:53:52
Message:
Today's SBSC 224s/324s sucessfully completed
yet another modern material cultures lab with
wireless data entry. All categories of trash
were entered in so far as they relate to dietary
practice. Wireless data entry session concluded
at 12:00 noon.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-17 10:50:06
Message:
This entry represents the third and last Garbage
Project collection and wireless data entry day
for SBSC 224s/324s students. To date students
have entered some 450 individual trash collection
specimens by wireless transmission from the
quad at CSU Monterey Bay.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-17 11:47:51
Message:
Evaluation of Wireless Garbage Project Data
Entry: April 17, 2003: Excellent connectivity
and glitch-free data entry was the order of
the day. Sunny skies and cloud cover shortly
after storm. Only problems encountered were
with two students who accidently kicked themselves
into the Carmel Mission database. This has occured
previouly and will need to be corrected. April
10, 2003: We experienced a variety of connectivity
problems with both the Toshiba e740 and Compaq
iPaq 3950 units. Students repeatedly lost connections
with iPaq units, and e740 units less enhanced
wireless cards did not connect at all and were
not used. Due to this problem day I took the
step of ordering 5 additional wireless cards
for the Toshibas. One other issue with the e740's
is the darkness of the screen which slows data
entry somewhat. April 3, 2003: Good connectivity
and largely glitch-free data entry was the order
of the day. Sunny skies and some cloud cover.
Only problems encountered were with students
who accidently kicked themselves into the Carmel
Mission database. This has occured previouly
and will need to be corrected. Also, while both
Toshiba and Compaq units functioned reasonably
well, one of the iPaq units repeatedly lost
signal. Overall,I believe that the Wireless
Pocket PC's performed reasonably well and that
real-time wireless data management was a great
success.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-24 02:10:53
Message:
This posting of a Wireless Journal entry is
being transmitted from the front porch of the
CSUMB Institute of Archaeology Lab located in
Building 110. Because we have been unable to
get the university to wire this building for
Internet communications, the archaeology program
and it's students have been unable to conduct
Internet or Online Journal or data management
from the Archaeology Lab located in said building.
As of today, it is apparent that at least as
far as the front entry area of Building 110
is concerned, we can in fact use the existing
campus wireless network for real-time data management
from the Institute for Archaeology Lab located
at Building 110. Yeehaw!!!
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-04-24 02:23:21
Message:
This is the second successful posting of a Wireless
Journal entry from the CSUMB Building 110 Archaeology
Lab. Because this building has not been rewired
for phone or Internet access we have had to
forego any sort of real-time data management
via the Internet from this location. Typically,
we have found it necessary to post individual
entries via a laptop database which would then
be backed up to diskette and then uploaded and
merged with the Institute for Archaeology (ASTV)
server-based database. Invariably, this has
resulted in the uneven conversion or upload
of the complete data set. Beginning next Tuesday,
April 29th, 2003, the SBSC 224s/324s flintknapping
or stone tools production lab will be conducted
from the Building 110 site and data and journal
entries will be posted in real-time by students
participating in said project. Whereas we were
previously unable to get the university to sponsor
the wiring of this specific building (Building
110), it would appear that the proximity and
coverage of the wireless network at CSUMB will
now permit data entry from the foyer or porch
of this same building.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-01 01:03:02
Message:
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, the first of the
Spring 2003 "Flintknapping" or Stone
Tool labs was conducted from Building 110 on
the CSU Monterey Bay campus. At that time I
demonstrated the use of hard and soft hammer
percussion, pressure flaking, and indirect percussion
methods of flintknapping. Rob Lecel and I prepared
the area to be featured for the stone tool demonstration
by laying out a canvas tarp that had been prepared
in previous years with a grid composed of 20
x 20 cm units running from 1-13 and from A-Q.
Index cards with each unit were prepared by
me in advance for the purposes of having the
students select unit numbers at random. Upon
completing the stone tool demonstration, which
required the better part of the period from
about 10:30 to 11:40 am, students were instructed
to return to Building 110 on Thursday, May 1st,
2003. Today, I gave students the opportunity
to produce flake tools by way of hard hammer
(cobble or pebble) and soft hammer (antler tine).
Each student was provided with a pair of leather
gloves, goggles, a leather pad, an antler tine,
and a cobble or pebble. Students soon discovered
how challenging it was to produce a useable
flake for retouch purposes. A number of messages
posted at this Wireless Journal site make note
of the difficulties encountered in the exercise.
As always, the fact that the group needed to
be broken up into two separate work spaces complicated
my ability to provide instruction to each in
a timely manner...particularly given the fact
that everyone was so anxious to get started
with the flintknapping experiment. I moved from
person to person correcting or instructing them
on the proper use of the antler tine or cobble
for percussion and or pressure flaking. Upon
the completion of their respective efforts to
produce a useable flake tool, I then had the
students select the numbered cards so as to
sample individual units. Each student group
of five persons then selected five individual
units for collection. Upon collecting the specimens
from the five units selected at random, students
were then instructed to follow protocol with
the sorting and counting of lithic debris based
on size categories (< 1.0 cm; 1.0-2.0 cm;
etc.) and then the weighing of materials based
on those same categories. Upon having completed
this portion of the lab exercise, everyone was
instructed to post a Wireless Journal entry
about what they observed and experienced during
this week's lab exercise. Students used both
a Mac laptop and Toshiba e740 and Compaq iPaq
3950 Pocket PC's. I prepared the settings for
each of the PDA's and for the most part the
units all performed well. When one considers
that the Building 110 lab is not supposed to
be on the Wireless Network or any other telecommunications
grid, I am elated at the fact that the Building
110 lab is now able to connect to the Internet-based
datasets developed and posted on the Institute
for Archaeology data server. Gilbert Gonzales,
our campus CTO, has also noted that the transect
surveys and garbology surveys with Wireless
data transmissions should not have been possible
given the fact that the campus quad that we
have been using for wireless transmissions is
not technically wired for wireless use. Given
that fact, I can now reassess the effectiveness
of the Wireless Project's data management program
in light of the fact that we have managed to
accomplish the impossible...even if somewhat
imperfectly. My assessments of student impressions
of the wireless project will need to take this
latter fact into account. PS: This final Wireless
Journal transmission for the day is being sent
via wireless laptop from the foyer of the Building
110 Archaeology Lab...a building that has absolutely
no telecommunications infrastructure, let alone
a phone line that works.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-01 02:10:07
Message:
This message constitutes the last of the Wireless
Journal entries for the SBSC 224s/324s "Flintknapping"
or “Stone Tools” production lab
of Thursday, May 1st, 2003. This post was made
from a Mac Powerbook G4 laptop by wireless transmission
from the CSU Monterey Bay Building 110 Archaeology
Lab. Despite the fact that the Building 110
lab has no working telecommunications infrastructure
whatsoever, all Wireless Journal entries made
this day by students and myself to this portion
of the Wireless Technologies website and database
were made via wireless laptops and both Toshiba
e740 and Compaq iPaq 3950 Pocket PC's. It should
be noted that the Toshiba e740s worked extraordinarily
well. Prior use of the e740s from the CSU Monterey
Bay campus quad was somewhat unpredictable.
Given that we have since upgraded the wireless
cards on all five e740 units, and I have since
learned from campus CTO Gilbert Gonzales that
the campus quad is not “wired” for
wireless reception, I believe that we have achieved
considerable success given that all of the earlier
postings of wireless journals and data were
achieved in an environment deemed not to be
rigged for wireless telecommunications. Given
that fact, I will need to revisit student concerns
with the varied results that we achieved in
the campus quad areas. In addition, one other
finding from the project, and particularly the
Wireless Transect Surveys conducted in February,
is that many areas of the campus quad do in
fact have wireless connectivity, even if only
by default. We believe that the wireless connectivity
achieved in the quad areas was a byproduct of
a wireless bleed from existing wireless connectivity
previously thought to work only within those
buildings configured for wireless. In other
words, we should not have been able to connect
to the Internet or post Wireless Journals or
enter wireless Site Catalog Tool database entries
from the campus quad at CSU Monterey Bay. Even
so, Gilbert Gonzales and the IT team here at
CSU Monterey Bay are now looking into what needs
to be configured for wireless beyond those areas
on 6th street currently targeted for the installation
of wireless antennas purchased by my colleague
Dr. Yong Lao. On Tuesday, April 29th students
met in the Building 110 Archaeology Lab to participate
in a flintknapping demonstration conducted by
me for the purposes of preparing students for
their own participation in the lab exercise
in question. At that time I demonstrated the
effective use of hard and soft hammer percussion,
indirect percussion, and pressure flaking methods
for stone tool production. In the process of
demonstrating the varied techniques in question,
I also succeeded in creating a debris field
or lithic scatter that will be the subject of
ongoing analysis by students for the end term
project. The demonstration in question ran from
about 10:30 am to 11:40 am. Today, Thursday,
May 1, 2003, Wireless Project student assistant
Rob Lecel prepared two additional areas for
the flintknapping exercises. A gridded tarp,
like that used in past experiments, was anchored
with duct tape to the floor areas on the north
end of the building. The grid in question is
composed of 20 x 20 centimeter units configured
within an alphanumerically designed grid pattern.
The unit numbers as such span the range from
A1 through Q13. Students were assembled about
the main grid at the center of the lab and instructed
to obtain a pair of leather gloves, goggles,
a leather flintknapping pad, an antler tine,
and a cobble or pebble provided as part of the
flintknapping tool kit. Students were again
reminded of the importance of taking precautions
and following protocols closely to avoid mishaps.
In addition, I asked that students await my
specific instructions or other guidance. Students
were then provided with a chunk of obsidian
for the exercise. Students were given that period
from about 10:15 am to about 11:10 am to work
on perfecting their abilities to strike or create
a primary flake worthy of retouch or other modification.
After having added to the debris field or lithic
scatter, students were then asked to reconstitute
their respective groups and to select Unit numbers
from the bucket of index cards replete with
individual unit numbers. In this way students
were asked to select five individual units for
a random sampling of units from the area of
the gridded tarp constituting the debris field.
Having done this, students were then asked to
collect every piece of lithic debris contained
within those units selected by random sample.
Having made their collections, students then
proceeded to sort and count individual specimens
by lot sizes ranging from less than 1.0 centimeter
to 1.0-2.0 cm; 2.0-3.0 cm, etc. Having collected
and sorted the samples by lot size, students
were then asked to weigh and document their
collections and samples by lot size. Having
collected their information, they then proceeded
to add their information to the field forms
prepared for that purpose in an Excel table.
Having documented their samples, students then
made use of the Pocket PCs and single Powerbook
G4 laptop to enter their Wireless Journal entries
for the day. The student use of the Pocket PCs
went extraordinarily well with both the iPaq
3950 and Toshiba e740 (with wireless card upgrade)
PDA units.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-01 02:14:50
Message:
This message constitutes the last of the Wireless
Journal entries for the SBSC 224s/324s "Flintknapping"
or “Stone Tools” production lab
of Thursday, May 1st, 2003. This post was made
from a Mac Powerbook G4 laptop by wireless transmission
from the CSU Monterey Bay Building 110 Archaeology
Lab. Despite the fact that the Building 110
lab has no working telecommunications infrastructure
whatsoever, all Wireless Journal entries made
this day by students and myself to this portion
of the Wireless Technologies website and database
were made via wireless laptops and both Toshiba
e740 and Compaq iPaq 3950 Pocket PC's. It should
be noted that the Toshiba e740s worked extraordinarily
well. Prior use of the e740s from the CSU Monterey
Bay campus quad was somewhat unpredictable.
Given that we have since upgraded the wireless
cards on all five e740 units, and I have since
learned from campus CTO Gilbert Gonzales that
the campus quad is not “wired” for
wireless reception, I believe that we have achieved
considerable success given that all of the earlier
postings of wireless journals and data were
achieved in an environment deemed not to be
rigged for wireless telecommunications. Given
that fact, I will need to revisit student concerns
with the varied results that we achieved in
the campus quad areas. In addition, one other
finding from the project, and particularly the
Wireless Transect Surveys conducted in February,
is that many areas of the campus quad do in
fact have wireless connectivity, even if only
by default. We believe that the wireless connectivity
achieved in the quad areas was a byproduct of
a wireless bleed from existing wireless connectivity
previously thought to work only within those
buildings configured for wireless. In other
words, we should not have been able to connect
to the Internet or post Wireless Journals or
enter wireless Site Catalog Tool database entries
from the campus quad at CSU Monterey Bay. Even
so, Gilbert Gonzales and the IT team here at
CSU Monterey Bay are now looking into what needs
to be configured for wireless beyond those areas
on 6th street currently targeted for the installation
of wireless antennas purchased by my colleague
Dr. Yong Lao.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-01 02:15:57
Message:
On Tuesday, April 29th students met in the Building
110 Archaeology Lab to participate in a flintknapping
demonstration conducted by me for the purposes
of preparing students for their own participation
in the lab exercise in question. At that time
I demonstrated the effective use of hard and
soft hammer percussion, indirect percussion,
and pressure flaking methods for stone tool
production. In the process of demonstrating
the varied techniques in question, I also succeeded
in creating a debris field or lithic scatter
that will be the subject of ongoing analysis
by students for the end term project. The demonstration
in question ran from about 10:30 am to 11:40
am. Today, Thursday, May 1, 2003, Wireless Project
student assistant Rob Lecel prepared two additional
areas for the flintknapping exercises. A gridded
tarp, like that used in past experiments, was
anchored with duct tape to the floor areas on
the north end of the building. The grid in question
is composed of 20 x 20 centimeter units configured
within an alphanumerically designed grid pattern.
The unit numbers as such span the range from
A1 through Q13. Students were assembled about
the main grid at the center of the lab and instructed
to obtain a pair of leather gloves, goggles,
a leather flintknapping pad, an antler tine,
and a cobble or pebble provided as part of the
flintknapping tool kit. Students were again
reminded of the importance of taking precautions
and following protocols closely to avoid mishaps.
In addition, I asked that students await my
specific instructions or other guidance. Students
were then provided with a chunk of obsidian
for the exercise. Students were given that period
from about 10:15 am to about 11:10 am to work
on perfecting their abilities to strike or create
a primary flake worthy of retouch or other modification.
After having added to the debris field or lithic
scatter, students were then asked to reconstitute
their respective groups and to select Unit numbers
from the bucket of index cards replete with
individual unit numbers. In this way students
were asked to select five individual units for
a random sampling of units from the area of
the gridded tarp constituting the debris field.
Having done this, students were then asked to
collect every piece of lithic debris contained
within those units selected by random sample.
Having made their collections, students then
proceeded to sort and count individual specimens
by lot sizes ranging from less than 1.0 centimeter
to 1.0-2.0 cm; 2.0-3.0 cm, etc. Having collected
and sorted the samples by lot size, students
were then asked to weigh and document their
collections and samples by lot size. Having
collected their information, they then proceeded
to add their information to the field forms
prepared for that purpose in an Excel table.
Having documented their samples, students then
made use of the Pocket PCs and single Powerbook
G4 laptop to enter their Wireless Journal entries
for the day. The student use of the Pocket PCs
went extraordinarily well with both the iPaq
3950 and Toshiba e740 (with wireless card upgrade)
PDA units.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-08 12:28:00
Message:
Today's SBSC 224s/324s (Archaeology: From Map
to Museum) course returned to the Building 110
Archaeology Lab to pursue the penultimate lab
session devoted to stone tool reduction processes.
Students were given the incentive to produce
the makings of a bifacial tool with a distinctive
flake tool pattern. I announced from the lab
that the student who comes closest to producing
the best pressure or percussion-flake pattern
on at least one edge of their bifacial tool
will receive an additional 10 percentage points
of extra credit toward the final grade for the
term. The runner up will receive an additional
5 percentage points of extra credit. A Lab Report
assessment form was distributed and discussed
for the purposes of addressing the specifics
of that content required for the final lab report.
At present, the stone tool having the most distinctive
flake tool characteristics and form is that
of Rob Lecel...who it turns out is one of the
Wireless Project student assistants. I will
be permitting all students one more opportunity
in Tuesday's lab to produce the flake tool pattern
sought. Finally, while we did not have an opportunity
to post wireless journals or data, I have taken
the opportunity here to post this singular wireless
journal entry.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-13 12:00:03
Message:
This is a test of the D-Link Air Wireless card
used on a Toshiba e748 Pocket PC. This card
used on the Toshiba appears to have a much faster
and more robust signal than the HP wireless
cards used on the iPaq 3955s. This test post
was transmitted from CSU Monterey Bay Building
110 Archaeology Lab. This area is not otherwise
setup for wireless telecommunications.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-05-13 12:17:10
Message:
Todays final Stone Tools lab took place in the
CSU Monterey Bay Building 110 Archaeology Lab
and students were directed to conduct one of
two tasks. Those wishing to compete for the
extra credit Stone Tools challenge were given
the opportunity to do so by way of the creation
of stone tool flake patterns that best represent
both percussion and pressure flaking patterns.
I have offered students the opportunity to compete
for a 10% points of extra credit for the best
flake tool pattern produced in a biface, and
the runner up will compete for an additional
5% points of extra credit for the next best
example produced. Students not wishing to compete
in the Lab Challenge this day were asked to
conduct one additional sampling of the gridded
stone tool production area for the purposes
of latter analysis. Because of this late date
in the semester, this student cohort will not
be required to enter the data for that challenge,
particularly as we have been working out the
technical issues with the newly posted stone
tools or Flintknapping data base. I have instructed
the students to meet in the Building 18, Room
156 computer lab for the last class session
which will on Thursday of this week. At that
time I will present an overview of that information
learned from the Wireless Technologies Project,
the Modern Material Cultures Lab (Garbology),
and Flintknapping labs. The second hour will
be dominated by videotaped exit interviews with
student participants this semester. Finally,
it should be noted that students posted the
results or observations of their experience
with the stone tools lab this day. I noted in
a previous post that the D-Link Wireless cards
ordered for the Toshiba e740s has significantly
enhanced the speed and efficiency, as well as
the bandwidth concerns originally had with the
internal cards germane to the Toshiba units.
The Toshiba's now outperform the iPaq units
with the HP cards. Overall, I believe that given
the experimental nature of this project, and
the on campus use of wireless technologies --
when wireless access in outdoor and common areas
was not yet configured -- proved itself a success.
Perhaps the largest issue for students was the
difficulty of using the smaller keypad area
of the Pocket PCs when wireless laptops were
available. Interestingly, whenever the laptop
units were unavailable, the students readily
took to entering and posting their journals
via the PDA or Pocket PCs.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-10-14 04:03:17
Message:
Today, the SBS 224s/324s Archaeology: Map to
Museum class conducted the wireless transect
survey on the CSUMB campus. The survey covered
approximately 250 paces across the main quad,
and students were directed to document any and
all traces of human endeavor, including sidewalks,
trash, fixtures, and related debris. The experiment
was limited by the fact that the wireless signal
was not up to par...particularly as we are relying
on the wireless bleed from campus buildings
oriented to the quad. Apparently, we also neglected
to enter the site name (CSUMB) in all upper
case letters, and as a result, the Compaqs did
not all connect in a timely fashion; although
we were able to reestablish signal for Online
Journal postings in front of the CSUMB Library...from
which this post was transmitted at approximately
4:02 pm on October 14, 2003. Overall, the transect
survey was a success in that the students demonstrated
their interest and enthusiasm in the effort
overall. Group 3 was unable to complete the
summary as they had too much info to input in
so short a time (ca. 1 hour for survey).
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2003-11-04 03:17:35
Message:
Today was the second week and second collection
for this semester's SBS 224s/324s garbology
project crew. One group produced a sample that
included post Halloween candy, condom wrappers
and used condoms, wine bottle corks, and assorted
illicit materials. The time is 3:14 pm and the
final crew is still in the Science Building
courtyard working on sorting their respective
samples. Clearly, the garbage samples were much
more diverse and full than was the case last
week. Because of the lack of electrical outlets
in the Science Building courtyard, I have been
unable to provide an electronic weight scale
but plan on remedying this with the use of a
battery operated electronic scale. One primary
difference this week over last is that I have
included a "Weekly Garbology Profile"
or questionnaire to be completed by students
each week as part of their evolving efforts
to identify and or characterize the occupants
of the home from which the sample was derived.
Otherwise, all is going smoothly so far. This
journal entry has been entered via wireless
transmission from the Science Building courtyard.
The entry was prepared on a Compaq wireless
Tablet PC.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-01-22 10:46:45
Message:
I just completed a presentation for the CSUMB
Community day of Learning held in the World
Theater. Gonzalo Nunez and I posted three additional
images and text sections to the Project Site
portion of the Wireless Technologies website.
Name: Ruben Mendoza
E-mail: ruben_mendoza@csumb.edu
Date: 2004-02-20 04:36:40
Message:
On this day we initiated the Spring 2004 field
season at the Carmel Mission project site (CA-MNT-18).
A new group of about 27 students is matriculated
for the term, and we selected some six new units
for exploratory soundings. First, students were
asked to draw the numbers 1 through 8 from a
bucket, and then, depending on their priority
in the numbers from 1 through 8, students then
selected a second set of Unit numbers drawn
from a bucket. This then determined which students
groups were assigned to which units. Students
were permitted to self select their own team
members. They were also to select a Team leader
or captain. That individiual or team leader
then selected the Unit number from the bucket
of unit numbers. Having done that, students
were directed to produce notes describing their
respective unit areas. Having done that, they
were then instructed in basic procedures and
directed to initiate excavation procedures.
Rob Lecel, Genetta Butler and Kyle Thompson
assisted in directing students, and that info
provided the team leaders was then conveyed
through them and the project assistants to all
other students on an ongoing basis. Today we
opened six new units of those that remain. New
units include B2, E3, F4, H2, I1, and I4. In
addition to a single shard of Galera ware with
a tin-enameled interior, and a buff colored
exterior, was recovered by one group. A bird
skull, possibly a pelican, was recovered in
one of the units. The wireless system was successful
only to the extent that a single laptop was
on wireless...but wired to the modems. Apparently,
the technician believes that the access points
were somehow reset and settings deleted. We
will endeavor to correct this problem by next
week so that students are not in the position
of having to await others in inputting their
wireless journals. Otherwise, we had a very
successful day in so far as instruction and
training was concerned. The pastor has noted
that the otherwise torn and tattered plastic
frameworks that we use to cover the units are
an eyesore for wedding photographers. I have
offered to dismantle the PVC frameworks in question
and replace them with large tarps. The time
is 4:37 pm and we are preparing to depart.
