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 [...]
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 [...]
One of the most interesting things about archaeology is finding contradictions from the past. To quote Jeff’s post Why Archaeology? “By studying the physical objects left behind by our ancestors we fill gaps in our historical records, find the truth on personal accounts of history, and help connect in a deeper way to our heritage [...]
After downloading a program from a government website (harder than it sounds) and going through 438 different patents (twice), I return empty-handed. Two and a half weeks ago, I set out to discover the true heritage of the knob which reads June 11, 1889 and am no closer than when I started. When I found [...]
There is never a definitive answer in archaeology. What we do is piece together the facts and hypothesize about what we believe happened or is happening. It is an interesting way to learn about the past without an actual historical account. Even with historical records a lot can be learned from what is in the [...]
