Back from about 5 weeks of fieldwork on the north and south sides of the Seward Peninsula and there is a lot of lab work to do! These materials are mainly from an excavation in the Port Clarence region of northwest Alaska but we also collected some new samples from survey on the Bering Land […]
Tag Archives: Artifacts
Post by Emily Rocha, PSU undergraduate and Archaeology Lab Intern This quarter I have been going back through the bulk samples we sorted last term. I have been double checking them, or basically, resorting them making sure each material type is in its correct place. The step after this, which I have done a bit of, […]
Last week I was the the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History to do some research for my PNW clay and ceramic technology project. The goal was to look through the museum’s archival materials to identify sites where clay and/or ceramic features, objects, or vessels were reported. I also finally had a […]
Stacie found this amber bead when she was sorting samples last quarter. I have found amber beads before when working at a site on the (relatively) nearby Noatak River and blue glass beads from a 17th century site at Cape Krusenstern. But, beads are not an every day kind of find. Amber can be found […]
Post by Codi Quimby, PSU undergraduate and Lab Intern Processing large amounts of 1/8” material from bulk samples was quite tedious and at the same time incredibly rewarding. When I first began my work I found differentiating the different types of material quite challenging, especially differentiating between wood, antler and ivory. But by my last day […]
Post by Lyssia Coffey, PSU postbacc and Lab Tech for the Climate Change and Archaeology Project In sorting through the matrix from Dr. Anderson’s work in Alaska, I, and some other students, have found many of these amber-like pieces. They are hard and amorphous with some sharp edges. They are an orange-amber color and slightly translucent. They […]
Post by Emily Rocha, PSU undergraduate and Lab Tech for the Climate Change and Archaeology Project This quarter I have spent a lot of time sorting piles of material. The hardest part is when the items that have gone through the smallest screen – 1/8″. Mostly there is only wood and antler left and they can […]
