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It all comes together… or does it?  Hoping to find answers to questions we didn’t even know we were asking, us field school initiates searched tirelessly through maps, old diaries, news papers, official documents, and personal effects at the MSU archives. Knowing that we need to combine this knowledge with what we have seen in [...]

Our impromtu guest lecturer

On Friday, June 18th, Duane Quates, an MSU graduate student and archaeologist at the Fort Drum Cultural Resource Program, who was in from New York talked to all of us during lunch. He gave us a little taste of what his job involves as a civilian employed by the army as a historical archaeologist. His [...]