
But we aren’t actually sure what exactly the houses looked like. Well, archaeologists working at Star Car have found these circular houses with evidence of postholes, and we’ve made reconstructions based on that. We had several computers running on our own local server and kids (mostly boys) went pretty crazy for it. So I got a reasonable model of Star Carr up and running for Yornight, which highlights European Union-funded research at York. I had a lot of help from other people in the department affiliated with the Centre for Digital Heritage. Not fancy, specialist Lego like they have these days, but the basic set. Sadly we did not reconstruct the frontlets–building things in Minecraft is a lot like using Lego. Red deer antler head-dress from Star Carr at the British Museum. Organic materials such as wood preserve very well in the waterlogged peat and so they find lots of spear points, platforms and a deer frontlet or two. I used his instructions to import a digital elevation model (DEM) from the famous Mesolithic site of Star Carr, currently being investigated by Nicky Milner at the University of York.Īfter a few tweaks, I managed to get a fairly nice, smooth landscape–Star Carr, now a lovely undulating field, was once on the edge of Lake Flixton. Shawn Graham, as always, is at the forefront of developing archaeological landscapes in Minecraft and if you’d like to try it out, I suggest you read up on Electric Archaeology. 17.Archaeologists have been playing with Minecraft to present the past and the play around with reconstruction. Cloud State, followed by a home game against Minnesota Crookston at 1 p.m. The Bulldogs play again next weekend, starting Friday, Sept. UMD brought their weekend record up to an even 1-1-0 with this afternoon's 3-1 win over NSU. Jares' goals secured her the fastest consecutive goals in program history, a record previously held by Kaisa Ranki (1:07 vs. Fifty three seconds later, Jares scored again on a breakaway, the Bulldogs first non-penalty kick goal since the 64:29 mark of the season's first game against Northern Michigan. Jares took a penalty kick at 76:37 and put the ball in the opposite corner Tobias did. The Bulldogs took over shooting opportunities in the second half, going from down a shot in the first half (3-4) to leading shots 5-1 halfway through the second (8-5 total).

The Bulldogs had not scored in the past 223:17 on the field, since Jares' penalty kick against Michigan Tech.įour minutes into the second half, Tobias put an end to UMD's goal drought, sneaking the ball in the lower right corner on a penalty kick to tie the game. NSU took over momentum, Smith making a couple more runs at the goal which ended up wide or were stopped by UMD's defense.Īt the half, the score stood at 1-0 in favor of the Wolves. However, five minutes later, the Wolves opened the scoring with a goal off a high shot from redshirt freshman Hannah Smith.


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The Bulldogs staged an impressive second half comeback featuring two penalty kick goals, as well as record-breaking consecutive goals from Jackie Jares, to beat the Wolves 3-1.Ī free kick just under 10 minutes into the game from Jares created a chance for Anna Tobias down low, but NSU's Alexus Townsend made the stop in net. The University of Minnesota Duluth soccer team took the field this Sunday afternoon for what would become their first victory this season, kicking off at 1 p.m.
