Coming into this program, as new as I am to the archaeology field, I had a lot of expectations. Dinosaur bones, buried treasure, and dead bodies were all among the things I had expected to find in our test pit once we got the show on the road. After a few days of digging for [...]
Shortly after shovel testing began west of Beaumont Tower, I felt convinced that not much would be unearthed if we decided to begin our excavations in this area. Only a few significant artifacts had been found, such as an intact glass bottle, small pieces of glass, brick, steak bone and shell. Although one shovel test [...]
Trash seems like a weird thing to want to find, and most people would go out of their way to not find it. However for archeologists, trash is treasure: we can learn all kinds of things from what people left behind. Being a part of the Campus Archeology Program, we’ve been digging next to College Hall, the [...]
