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The San Diego Archaeological Center is a Museum and curation facility for archaeological artifacts from the San Diego region.

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#FindOutFriday Soda water was bottled as early as 1806. Bitterquellebottles, like the one pictured here, are some of the most found in the US. This olive-green Hunyadi Janos bottle has been dated between 1870 and 1900 and has a blob finish made using a post-bottom mold.

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This is a NEHI soda bottle, produced by the Chero-Cola/Union Bottle Works company founded in 1905. The NEHI Cola entered the market in 1924 and had many different flavors. This bottle still has its label intact and has been dated to 1960. It is still on the market today.

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#WhatIsItWednesday What is it? Hint: The company associated with this bottle changed its original name to the Royal Crown Company after its brand RC Cola became popular.

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#FindOutFriday Milk glass was first introduced in the 16th century and became a quick competitor of porcelain. This is a jar made by Elmo/Elmo Sisters, a beauty company founded in the early 1900s. It was likely a beauty cream. Archaeologists have dated this jar to 1919-1929.

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This is a Bromo-Seltzer bottle manufactured by the Maryland Glass Corporation for the Emerson Drug Company. Bromo-Seltzer was said to cure ailments such as hangovers, headaches, and upset stomachs. This cobalt blue bottle has been dated between 1915 and 1921.

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#WhatIsItWednesday What is it? Hint: The medicine this bottle contained had the main ingredient of sodium bromide.

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Archaeologists have dated this jar between 1932 to 1940s.

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#FindOutFriday According to the Society for Historical Archaeology, one of the best sources for determining bottle types based on the shape are old glass/bottle maker’s catalogs. This jar was in the 1933 Owens-Illinois Glass Company catalog and listed as a “modernistic” jar.

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Answer: Owens-Illinois Glass Co. began in 1929 and produced billions of bottles during its 80-year history. This amber non-food related household bottle was dated by archaeologists to 1933, 1943, or 1953 using its unique maker's marks and identifiers.

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#WhatIsItWednesday Which company manufactured this bottle? Hint: The manufacturer of this bottle has the most commonly found product during archaeological excavations and surveys post 1930.

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The San Diego Presidio, established in AD 1769, was the first European settlement in Upper California. Small-scale poultry production, likely managed by women and children, provided California presidios with a form of subsistence independence.

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Join us Saturday for two screenings of our Living Room Lectures.

10:30 AM – A Day in the Life of a Physician: Ancient Egypt
12:30 PM – The First Chicken Burrito in Western North America: Avian Remains for the San Diego Royal Presidio

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Ancient Egypt had some unusual characteristics. Diseases of the era are depicted in temple artwork and Egyptian physicians were respected for their knowledge in the ancient world. In this lecture, Dr. Philip Goscienski discusses disease and medicine in Ancient Egypt.

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Join us tomorrow for our virtual Living Room Lecture on an Ancestral Maya quarry site in Belize with Dr. Jon Spenard.

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On October 14, SDAC Members are invited to go behind the scenes at the Imperial Valley Desert Museum. Following morning tours, SDAC Members are welcome to join IVDM Executive Director Kristin O’Lear and SDAC Executive Director Stephanie Sandoval for wine and hors d’oeurves.

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Join us every 2nd Saturday of the month for two screenings of our Living Room Lectures by archaeologists, experts, and authors.

Sat, Oct 14
10:30 AM – A Day in the Life of a Physician: Ancient Egypt

12:30 PM – Zooarchaeology of Avian Remains for the San Diego Royal Presidio

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#FindOutFriday A mouth-blown bottle is a bottle that was blown by hand and not a machine. This bottle was formed using a cup-bottom (cup-base) mold, identified by its horizontal seam marking at (or above and encircling) the heel of the bottle.

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Can’t make the date? Throughout October, you can present your Kids Free San Diego coupon to receive free admission to the Center and a take-home pottery kit for kids 12 and under: https://t.co/gG9Yo22wya

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Join us tomorrow for a pottery workshop and museum open house. Create your own piece of pottery to take home with you.

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