Looking for traces of a celebrated but unusual artist in suburban Idaho.
Next to the small, run down house at 5015 Eugene Street on the north side of Boise, Idaho, is a white washed clapboard shed. Inside, the walls are covered with peeling, puckered blue wallpaper decorated, incongruously, with sailboats. It might have been built as a chicken coop, or perhaps just for storage, but for 30 years it served as the studio and living space of a man named James Castle. He is the reason that, in October 2016, archaeologists, students, and volunteers arrived at the shed to excavate its dirt floor.
Castle was born in 1899 in the remote town of Garden Valley, in the mountains north of Boise, to a large, hardworking Irish Catholic farming family. He was profoundly deaf from birth, and despite five years at the Idaho School for the
Deaf and Blind, Castle never learned to communicate in any traditional way. It was a time when an impairment like his could result in institutionalization, but the Castles were protective and encouraged his predilection for art from a young age. Castle scavenged discarded paper, mail, and food wrappers, and made his own ink. When the family moved to the Eugene Street house in the 1930s, he began to live and work in the 12-by-12-foot shed. Day after day, decade after decade, until his death in 1977, Castle spent almost all of his time drawing and piecing together abstracted constructions of paper, string, and wire.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January/February 2017 من Archaeology.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك ? تسجيل الدخول
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة January/February 2017 من Archaeology.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
بالفعل مشترك? تسجيل الدخول
A Very Close Encounter
New research has shown that human figures painted in red on a rock art panel in central Montana depict individuals engaged in a life-or-death encounter during an especially fraught historical moment.
A Sword for the Ages
A zigzag pattern, now tinged with the green-blue patina of oxidized metal, adorns the octagonal hilt of a rare sword dating to the Middle Bronze Age in Germany (1600-1200 B.C.) that was recently excavated in the Bavarian town of Nördlingen.
Ancient Egyptian Astrology
For centuries, layers of soot have coated the ceilings and columns in the entrance hall of Egypt's Temple of Esna. Now, an Egyptian-German team of researchers, led by Hisham El-Leithy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and Christian Leitz of the University of Tübingen, is restoring the temple's vibrant painted reliefs to their original brilliance.
BRONZE AGE POWER PLAYERS
How Hittite kings forged diplomatic ties with a shadowy Greek city-state
RITES OF REBELLION
Archaeologists unearth evidence of a 500-year-old resistance movement high in the Andes
Secrets of Egypt's Golden Boy
CT scans offer researchers a virtual look deep inside a mummy's coffin
When Lions Were King
Across the ancient world, people adopted the big cats as sacred symbols of power and protection
UKRAINE'S LOST CAPITAL
In 1708, Peter the Great destroyed Baturyn, a bastion of Cossack independence and culture
LAPAKAHI VILLAGE, HAWAII
Standing beside a cove on the northwest coast of the island of Hawaii, the fishing village of Lapakahi, which is surrounded by black lava stone walls, was once home to generations of fishers and farmers known throughout the archipelago for their mastery of la'au lapa'au, or the practice of traditional Hawaiian medicine. \"
A MORE COMFORTABLE RIDE
Although the date is much debated, most scholars believe people 5,000 years ago. For thousands of years after that, they did so without saddles. \"In comparison with horse riding, the development of saddles began relatively late, when riders began to care more about comfort and safety in addition to the horse's health,\" says University of Zurich archaeologist Patrick Wertmann.