Double Diamond Archaeology™

June Julian, Sea Pinks 

Isle of Vallay, UK Research Site

 Watercolor, 9 inches X  12 inches

Art/Archaeology

Chashama Space, New York City

In the Landscape and Culture award exhibition of 14 watercolor paintings, artist June Julian celebrates the beautiful islands and classic tartans of the remote Scottish Hebrides, UK. Collaborating there on two Explorers Club Expedition Flag Award projects with archaeologist, Rodrick B. MacLennan, her research objective was to visually record the effects of climate change on endangered coastal archaeology sites and to provide implications for shoreline cultural heritage worldwide. Continuing in the longstanding tradition of Landscape Archaeology visual documentation, the art work depicts the dramatic backdrop for two fieldwork seasons. 

Explorers Club Flag #109

An Art and Archaeology Collaboration

We were awarded The Explorers Club Flag for our second expedition to North Uist and the Isle of Vallay.  Previously  we published our field research on 18 of the original 225 archaeology  sites first discovered  by 19th cen. archaeologist,  Erskine Beveridge,  on the Isle of Vallay, Scotland, and reported the impact of climate  change upon them. 

We  extended our survey to include additional Beveridge sites on the NW  coast of North Uist, located directly across the Vallay Strand. Our  continuing research objective was to record the critical loss of Coastal  Heritage due to climate change - the increasing severity of storms, rising sea levels, and subsequent erosion of archaeological evidence.

Arroyo as Metaphor

U.S. Department of the Interior,

 Bureau of Land Management Grant

Funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of  Land Management and approved by the Rio Puerco Alliance, our objective  was to restore our lands from the ravaging effects of water erosion  caused by deforestation practices in the surrounding area. At the Head  Cut, or leading edge of the arroyo, approx. 25 feet of land eroded away per year.

 The project took place at our Double Diamond Ranch, 8 miles  North of Cuba, New Mexico and was published on The Rio Puero Alliance website. An Art/Archaeology collaboration with artist June Julian, it has been referenced as a model project for erosion abatement in the Southwest.