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April 2019 ASC Nseewsletter A.S.C. NEWS Issue No. 250 Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut April 2019 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE layout and organization, and a for The Bulletin of the target range for firing practice at Archaeological Society of April 7, 2019 Valley Forge, experimental Connecticut, who is working archaeology of hut building at hard to put the next edition Dear Members, Morristown National Park in together, and to Ernie Weigand New Jersey, Western who has filled in so well as our Summer is here, and there are so Connecticut State University’s new Treasurer, as well as his many great activities we can look work at the Middle Encampment dedication and work with the forward to! Western Connecticut site in Redding, Connecticut, Binette Rock Shelter database. State University will be Mary Harper’s research of We hope to have Dave conducting its Field School in Rochambeau’s marching route Thompson’s monograph cooperation with Zach Singer at through Connecticut, Lauri completed this year. Thanks also the Templeton Paleoindian Site Weinstein’s ethnohistorical for the response to our inquiries in Washington Depot, and we contribution concerning Native concerning help for our Website, will be looking forward to Peoples, People of African which we should soon be making another exciting season of descent, and women’s role in the plans to revitalize. discovery. We also anticipate war, and Dan Cruson’s Brian Jones’ continued work at observation about variability in Cosimo Sgarlata the Lt. John Hollister Site, and hutting traditions at Putnam Park, President the opportunity to volunteer and also in Redding, Connecticut. participate in other projects that The book will be released this IN THIS ISSUE the Office of State Archaeologist July, and it represents an President’s Message 1 will be conducting this summer. important contribution to the ASC News Archived Online 2 Lee West will fill us in on all the Russell Grant News 2 archaeology of Revolutionary FOSA 2 other field schools and field work War encampments, trails, and June & Dave Cooke Scholarship 2 opportunities in this Newsletter. support structures. Hebrew Farmers Meeting 3 Institute for American Ind. Studies 3 Focus on Field Schools 4 I am excited for the release of For those of you who have OSA - 5 Schools 4 “The Historical Archaeology of learned about my recent health Templeton/WCSU 5 the Revolutionary War scare, I am glad to report that I am Mohegan 5 Encampments of Washington’s Whitfield/SCSU 6 feeling much better and will be UConn/Battlefield 7 Army”, a book that I edited along looking forward to seeing you all UMass/Emily Dickenson 8 with Beth Morrison, and David at our May meeting in New Salve Regina/Slavery Site 9 Orr. The book will cover a UMass/Plimoth 9 Haven. NH Scrap 10 number of topics including the Calendar 11 lives of every day soldiers, a Let’s also give a great thanks to ASC Officers 12 special dining cabin built for Sarah Sportman, the new editor ASC Spring Meeting Program 13 George Washington, as well as ASC Spring Mtg Directions 16 1 ASC News now Washington, Connecticut. The different topic for us. I can only research will be conducted at this archived online say it was truly fascinating and museum where the collection is was extremely well received. I’m housed. The extensive faunal Dr. Brian Jones has arranged for past currently looking forward to the remains were preserved due to the ASC meeting where I can hear issues of ASC News to be scanned presence of shell in the soil layers and posted along with the ASC that contained the bone. Although another group of interesting talks. Bulletin at the Connecticut Digital many of the bones were identified FOSA volunteers are finishing up Archive at UConn. This is a work- and some analysis was done, our winter lab work after in-progress but already includes the research needs to address several volunteering hundreds of hours to last 20 years of the newsletter which issues: 1) all identifications are on wash, sort, catalog and tag the were available in electronic format, outdated punch cards so that a digital artifacts recovered last summer. and the long job of scanning the data base needs to be constructed, 2) And that can only mean one earlier issues is well under way. As identification and analysis of bones thing... they are posted, the newsletters are that have not yet been studied, 3) available to internet search engines, radiocarbon dating is needed to Field season is upon us! Dr. so this valuable resource on bracket the layers of bone deposition Connecticut Archaeology will now and preservation. The grant funding Jones has an ambitious schedule be widely accessible for the first will be used for two radiocarbon of outreach and excavation time. dates. projects for the 2019 field season. I’m confident FOSA and ASC Thanks to Brian Jones for making Watch for future news on Katie’s volunteers will be more than this possible! results. capable of providing the required support. The application form for the 2019 Russell Grant is being distributed Lastly, Dr. Jones has graciously with this issue of ASC News. asked me to co-host his new Applications should be sent to Dr. Brian Jones before September 1, internet radio show on 2019. Connecticut archaeology. You can find information on the show at the following link: NEWS FROM OTHER icrvradio.com/programs/program ORGANIZATIONS /285 I will do my best to represent the voice of Connecticut’s avocational archaeologists. Hope to see you in the field! Scott Brady FOSA NEWS President-FOSA Access both archives at this link: https://collections.ctdigitalarchive.org/isla Greeting ASC Friends, ndora/object/20002%3AArchSocCT THE JUNE AND DAVE The guest speaker at last month’s COOKE SCHOLARSHIP FOSA/ASC annual meeting was RUSSELL GRANT NEWS Dr. Daniel Adler, Associate The June and Dave Cooke We are pleased to announce that the Professor in the Department of Scholarship, given by The Friends of 2018 Lyent Russell grant will go to Anthropology at the University the Office of State Archaeology, Inc. Jessica Leclair for radiocarbon of Connecticut. Dr. Adler (FOSA), is intended to encourage dating for the Woodruff Rock presented his lecture “25 years those students, majoring in Shelter, in New Preston, (almost) of Middle and Upper archaeology at the MA or Ph. D. Connecticut. Palaeolithic Research in the level, to do work in Connecticut archaeology. The scholarship is The site was excavated in the 1970s Southern Caucasus.” His broad ranging talk regarding hominids offered to students at UCONN and by members of the Institute for Yale Universities. on the landscape from 300,000 to American Indian Studies (IAIS) in 10,000 years ago was a very 2 The scholarship is named for two of Emanuel Society (NEHFES) of This presentation is open to the the founders of FOSA. In fact, it is Chesterfield, CT will be held on public, but reservations must be June who is credited with the Sunday, June 9, 2019 at the New made in advance. beginnings of the organization in London County Historical 1997. Dave was the Field Society, 11 Blinman Street, New The NEHFES Annual Members' Supervisor for years and an extremely knowledgeable London, Connecticut 06320. meeting will begin at 3:00PM. avocational archaeologist. The guest speaker will be Reservations required via The amount of the scholarship will Andrew Stout, the Eastern email to NEHFES Treasurer be up to $2500.00 and results will be Regional Director for TAC (The Nancy Butler at expected within a year. For more Archaeological Conservancy of [email protected]. information and the application America). form, go to http://www.fosa- Note: The site of this Jewish ct.org/FOSA_Home.htm#Cooke The program will begin at 1:00 Community in Chesterfield, CT PM when Mr. Stout will speak including a synagogue, creamery about “TAC's Archaeological and mikveh was established as a NEHEFS Annual Meeting Holdings and the Acquisition of State Archaeological Preserve in on June 9, 2019 the NEHFES Site in Chesterfield, 2007. Connecticut." The Annual Meeting of The New England Hebrew Farmers of the 38 Curtis Road Washington, CT 06790 May 26, 2019, 3 p.m. LHAC Lecture Series: Stone Prayers: Native Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard Dr. Curtiss Hoffman will be discussing the work of his new book Stone Prayers: Native Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard, which will be available to purchase at this event. Scattered throughout the woodlands and fields of the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada are tens of thousands of stone monuments. These stone constructions have been the subject of debate among archaeologists and antiquarians for the past seventy-five years. Prominent among the competing hypotheses have been the allegations that all of these structures were built by colonial farmers removing rocks from their fields; or that they were built by pre-Columbian transatlantic voyagers; or that they are the result of natural deposition by glaciers or downslope erosion; or that they were constructed as sacred places by the indigenous peoples of the region. The purpose of this book is to provide quantitative support for the indigenous construction hypothesis, by providing a framework firmly and explicitly situated in the scientific method to test the four hypotheses above against a robust set of data--a total of 5,550 sites from the entire region. Included in the price of admission: $10 adults; $8 seniors; $6 children; LHAC Members free. June 1, 2019, 2-3 p.m. Washington Educational Walk The Director of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies will lead a walk along the museum's trails ending at their replicated Algonkian village.
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