The Anthropology Department conducts an archaeological field school each summer. These alternate between the site at Old Fort Niagara and the site at Beaver Island State Park.
Prerequisite: ANT100 or equivalent AND permission of instructor via application
Instructors: Dr. Lisa Marie Anselmi (Anthropology)
First meeting held in Classroom Building; all subsequent meetings
at Beaver Island State Park or other field site location. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
This season's research will focus on rediscovering the multi-component Martin site and exploring the side boundaries and remains of the lithic manufacturing locality that is the Martin II site. Students will learn about the Native occupations of Western New York, fieldwork methods including mapping and excavation, and laboratory procedures.
This year we will also be helping to restore historic cemetaries in Western New York.
For more information and an application, contact Dr. Lisa Marie Anselmi at (716) 878-6520.
Prerequisite: ANT100 or equivalent AND permission of instructor via application
Instructors: Dr. Susan Maguire (Anthropology)
First meeting held in Classroom Building; all subsequent meetings
at Old Fort Niagara, Youngstown, N.Y. Students are responsible for their own transportation.
This season's research will focus on trade between the French, the British, and the Native Americans during the mid-to-late eighteenth century. Students will learn how to map the site using a laser transit, how to establish excavation units, and how to excavate stratigraphically. All students will participate in
excavation, documentation, and laboratory work.
For more information and an application, contact Dr. Susan Maguire at (716) 878-6599.
