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Archaeological Field School

Schoharie Valley, New York

New York State Museum
Summer Archaeology Field School


This page is under development. New content will be added in the near future.

Early Irquois pottery

For questions in regards to the field school, contact Sean Rafferty.

A classic pitted stone, recovered from a shovel test pit!

The happy discoverers (Carolina, Heather and Samantha).

A lovely chalcedony biface.

Contact Era copper tinkler (Sean's pick for best find)

Ralph (center) from New Zealand, working with Bob and Kendra.

 

Clara, from Spain (left) works with Nicole and Rob during her visit.

 

Jan, from Germany, works with Nicole during his visit.

Dorothy hard at work taking notes.

Heather, rapt in concentration, works on a sketch.

A very obvisous hearth feature in the middle of this stripped area.

A bisected hearth feature.

Samantha (right) and Meredeth taking soil samples from a feature.

Chris (left) works with Carolina doing flotation.

Floating a soil sample to recover charcoal, seeds, bones, etc.

Stacey exposes the midden layer.

An alignment of post hole features, suggesting the presence of a structure.


A closeup of the posts.

A historic trench feature

The trench exposed, full of stones for drainage.

The trench fully excavated.

Kendra proudly shows off a map of the trench feature.

Nikki with a lovely netsinker.

Sean and Bob, soaking wet.

A somewhat blurry group photo.

Sean demonstrating flintknapping.

Sean (right) working with Rob during the flintknapping class.

Learning to use a transit for surveying.

Making bead jewelry at the Iroquois Museum.

Samanth, Heather and Carolina, acting like hicks.

Bob, Ralph, Kendra and Sean in the rain.

Heather, Samantha, Carolina and Nikki, on a rainy day.

Sean,Chris and Bob, staring at the ground in confusion...

The site mascot.

The flotation mascot.


Department of Anthropology
Arts & Sciences Building, Room 237
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
Phone: (518) 442-4700; Fax: (518) 442-5710

Please send questions or comments to: anthro@albany.edu

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