A Wonderful Crowd

The Canticle Farm event organizer estimated that 15-20 people would show up at their Thursday evening AVP presentation (see poster in previous post). We had over 60 enthusiastic attendees, with many great questions and comments, most of whom made the trek down to see the site. We thank all who participated, and a special thanks to Mark, Susan and Sister Joyce from Canticle Farm for their efforts, and AVP volunteers Jill, Celia and Laurie for helping to facilitate the program. Cheers!

Archaeology Day

Field Season 2014 is quickly approaching! Make your plans to join us! This year we have a new event:

Field School

The Allegheny Valley Project - SUNY JCC Field School 2014 is now a full six-credit course. The 3-credit option has been dropped due to lack of interest. Most four-year anthropology/archaeology programs require completion of six credit hours of field school, so most students opt for the six credit option. A reminder: the tuition is $1056 for New York State residents, and $2112 for non-residents. You can find registration forms at http://www.sunyjcc.edu/files/registrationforms_summer2014.pdf . Use these numbers to complete the form:
CMP   CRN          SBJ       CR HRS    FEES    COURSE TITLE
JM     4387     ANTH 8509      6             N/A     Archaeological Field School
Contact Shannon Bessette at shannonbessette@mail.sunyjcc.edu or Steve Howard at avp.archaeology@gmail.com for more information.

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.

March Update

We are finally finished with the incorporation and non-profit processes! All of the bureaucratic details, state and federal, have been addressed, and we are fully functional as a non-profit corporation in New York. Now we can focus all our efforts on our mission! In addition to the above-mentioned tasks, we have been busy processing the materials and data collected last year at Bockmier One, and we have been working on the technical report for the Karl site excavations. The report for Karl is all but finished, awaiting funding for radiocarbon dates. It is imperative that we have dates for the burnt rock feature. We're hoping we will be able to afford to date at least two samples this year to complete the report, and then transform the report into a journal article.