Narrated PowerPoint for OAS

The creator of this site, Paul C. Thistle (2021), provides a slightly revised and expanded narration of his Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS) Symposium presentation "Archaeology Excavation Simulation Activity: Realistic Archaeological Practice" originally delivered virtually to the Collaborations in History: Archaeology and GLAMs session on 7 November 2020 and updated in August 2021. It provides more details on simulation than the JME article as well as those found on this web site.

This hour-long narrated PowerPoint (recreated in August 2021) is a large file that takes ca. 1 minute to download. If and as the following appear, click on Open in Microsoft PowerPoint / Enable Editing / OK audio card warning / Slide Show tab / From Beginning.

Also note that a slide with a second video on virtual 'haptic' simulation appears as a black square. It can be viewed after a waiting one or 2 seconds for it to load by clicking on the black square to play the video.

Apparently, Google Sites unavoidably shows the PPT without my narrative. Therefore, the following link to my presentation will take you away from this site to my Critical Museology Miscellanea blog at https://miscellaneousmuseology.files.wordpress.com/2021/09/oas-excavation-simulation-realistic-archaeological-practice-2020-narration-2021-08-24.pptx .

I apologise in advance for the choppy nature of my narration. Recently, I have been diagnosed with a neurological condition and I notice it has begun to have a negative effect on my presentation abilities. FYI, the Hudson's Bay Company historic site mentioned that was burned during the 1885 Metis Resistance, rebuilt, and then abandoned in 1890 is Fort Pitt (built by the HBC in 1829) on the North Saskatchewan River.

A PDF of my OAS Symposium PowerPoint “Excavation Simulation Activity: Realistic Archaeological Practice” showing slides with live links can be viewd at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JmWHZt6KkP4PEZB69X3rEsPpRNh4vi5S/view?usp=sharing .

See the following SIL 182 Slide Show page for additional images of the 1975 salvage excavation.

The image below shows the author's first archaeological discovery on the horse farm operated by my father & sister resulting from construction of a pond below a hillside spring that I mention in the PPT narration.