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Summer Archaeological Field School

June 15, 2006

Students search for the Tockwogh palisaded Indian village using survey design, mapping, surface collection techniques, remote sensing, and data management.

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Students carefully search newly plowed fields for small artifacts
Students carefully search newly plowed fields for small artifacts.
Field School 2006
Field School 2006: Jan Rudnick, Laura Ward, Brandon Righi, Jon Spivey, Nick Larkin, Nick Wright, Neil Hayes, Abby Larkin, Wells Scheller, Tyler Larkin, Scott Vane, Ali Sutton, Andrew Grieb, and Anna Lodwick.
A race against time
It's a race against time as Tyler Larkin, Jon Spivey and Brandon Righi try to finish surveying a large field before visibility of the soil is lost to the first summer corn crops.
Jon Spivey holds up a point he found during the field survey
Jon Spivey holds up a point he found during the field survey.
It's easy to see why people would choose to live in locations like this hundreds and even thousands of years ago
It's easy to see why people would choose to live in locations like this hundreds and even thousands of years ago.
Shell middens, were the refuse grounds of local Natives long ago and are a good indication of Native American settlement in the area
Shell middens, were the refuse grounds of local Natives long ago and are a good indication of Native American settlement in the area.

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