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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Newsletter

The Spring 2014 newsletter has been sent! Electronic versions should be in your inbox (or check spam, if you haven't added our new email), and the paper versions should arrive in a few days.

Plan Ahead!

Here is the calendar for the 2014 Field Season for the Allegheny Valley Project, as it appears in the newsletter. Should any changes be made between now and then (weather, etc), they will be posted on this blog, so check back from time to time!
July
7 – six-credit field school opens; site prep
8-12 – 8am-5pm: 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
13 – site closed/activity date
14 – three-credit field school opens (8am-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
15-18 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm);  6cr field school; volunteer shifts
19 – 8am-5pm: 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
20 – site closed/Seneca Pow Wow
21-25 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
26 – Community Archaeology Day
27 – site closed/activity day
28-31 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
August
1 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
2 – 8am-5pm: 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
3 – site closed/activity day
4-8 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
9 – 8am-5pm: 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
10 – site closed/activity day
11-14 – 8am-5pm: 3cr field school (-4pm); 6cr field school; volunteer shifts
14 – 5pm-8pm: Site Closing

Calendar Notes:
-          Every Thursday is a designated lab day for field schools. Rain days will be held in the lab, in which case some Thursdays may become field days.

-          One field school day will be spent at the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, date to be announced.