We are done up north for this year, and I will be posting more details on our finds before the end of the summer, but I wanted to give a big thanks to my students and Graduate Student Instructors for thier hard work! Lots of great diggin' and lots of great laughs along the way as well!
Yay crew!
Hello from Alice and Avie! We are tuning in to tell you about our field trip to SUGAR IS-LAND, UP Michigan.
^^^ the Mackinac Bridge to the UP!
We made many educational stops along the way: an Ojibwe Museum in St. Ignace, the Soo Locks in Sault St. Marie...
Can you find the VERY LARGE boat on its way to the locks?
Notice how large.
... And a casino on a reservation to see some contemporary AMURICAN Indian art. Let's not forget our trip to Antler's (a restaurant de' Natural History).
Finally a ferry boat brought us to ...
Once we arrived, we drove around the North woods looking for our cabin. The roads were very bumpy; just ask any one of us. After three and a half tries, we finally found our destination. We commenced to eat, thanks to Sarah's handy frilling skills... we mean grilling. We had a camp fire and a little lovely rain.
The mosquitoes came too.
In the morning we stopped for fry bread to taste some AMURICAN Indian culture and passed respectively through a traditional AMURICAN Indian cemetery to view the Spirit Houses (they keep your spirits close to your body for the next round).
With bitter-sweet tears in our hearts, we headed back to UMBS. What a GRRRRREAT time; thanks Allison, Beth, and Dr. Meghan Howey.
Alice and Avie, over and out. Bow-chika-wow-wow.
Hello, this is Hye-jin and Laura. We're here to enlighten you about what is happening in the UMBS archaeology class.
Look at Hye-jin's amazing wall skillz!! I know you're jealous because I AM! The walls must be clean and flat like a box, so that we can see the soil changes.
Tuesday, we went on this amazing field trip to Fort Michilimackinac, then onward to Sea Shell City! At Fort Michilimackinac, we went to see the archaeology team working on their site. They were finding small artifacts such as: jewerly, metal, and food remains like bones.
As we were walking around on the tour we found out about a girl cooking at a house. We got to see the girl cooking old time apples and cabbage because it was a meal that was popular for that time period. We also got to see two red coats fire their guns(As seen below).
Look at that great contrast between the two structures: the old(fort) and the new(bridge). Isn't it AWESOME!! For all you art geeks out there.
Archaeology brings history to life and you get to use your knowlege filled brain to piece the artifacts together. That is why we love archaeology so much!
