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Thursday, May 2, 2013

Jamestown Community College 2013 Field School Information

The 2013 field school runs during the second summer session (begins July 8 and runs to August 2), and is worth 3 credit hours at SUNY JCC. The course title is ANT 8509, and the Course Registration Number (CRN) is 3918 or 3919. Forms can be found at http://www.sunyjcc.edu/files/registrationforms_summer2013.pdf . Registration is open until July 5, but the course enrollment is limited, so register soon. For information about costs and financial aid, visit the main JCC webpage at http://www.sunyjcc.edu .

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Field Season/ Field School 2013 Update

Field Season 2013 will be expanded to 5 weeks to accomodate the new four-week field school through Jamestown Community College. Dates to keep in mind: June 28 - field season opens; July 8 - field school opens; August 2 - field school closes; August 4 - field season closes. The detailed schedule will be posted here and included in the spring-summer newsletter in May.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Field School

We are currently working with Jamestown Community College to introduce a credit course field school this summer. It will likely occur in the second summer session, as a 3-4 week course. Students enrolled in the course will receive instruction through workshops and interactive activities, and work alongside volunteers in excavations and lab work. We'll provide more information as it develops.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Winter Newsletter

The electronic version of the newsletter has been issued. If you have not received it, check to see that you have space in your inbox or check your spam box. Email me if you need it re-sent. (sph1@email.com) The paper version will be mailed out early this week to those of you who requested it. If you are not currently receiving newsletters, but would like to, send an email request.

Sunday, January 6, 2013

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The Allegheny Valley Project now has a Facebook page, for more informal communications. Keep in touch here and there!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

December Update

The processing of the Karl Site materials is running smoothly along. The surface survey materials are processed and catalogued, and the excavation materials processing is underway. I've included a few examples of artifacts from the surface survey of Area B below. The project is going through the process of becoming a registered non-profit entity. This will enable us to better fulfull our mission, and will provide our donors with a tax deduction. We have formed an incorporating board of directors and are now going through legal processes. The Allegheny Valley Project, Inc. mission statement and financial records will be posted on pages within this site once all details have been finalized through the board. The Winter newsletter will be sent out late January or early February, and will have more details about this process and the 2013 field season.


                                      Pitted stone, Karl Site Area B





                                       Hammerstone, Karl Site Area B





Projectile Point (Lamoka type), Karl Site Area B

More artifacts from Area B are pictured on the Karl Site page.

Friday, September 7, 2012

September Update

It's been a while since my last post, so I figured an update was in order. The Summer-Fall newsletter will be ready the last week in September, and should be sent shortly thereafter. If you're not on the mailing list or email list, let me know at sph1@email.com or showard@austincc.edu that you would like to be connected. This year's field season provided a wealth of information to further our understanding of the subsistence patterns along the Allegheny during the Archaic Period. We collected several more carbon samples for dating, so we'll know when during the Archaic the Karl site was inhabited. A new artifact type that hadn't previously been recorded from the site is the netsinker, which will be a featured article in the newsletter. Three of these very simple yet effective tools were recovered during the 2012 season.


Karl Site netsinkers
 
 
 
 
Area B, the Stoeckel Tract, yielded additional bifaces as well, including a few types we hadn't seen previously at Karl. Distribution information from the Stoeckel Tract also helps us understand the settlement pattern at the Karl site, revealing two lithic "bands" parallel to the terrace edge, and a small scatter to the east of the main Karl site distribution. Analyses are underway to figure out what it all means.
 

Small projectile point from Area B