A.S.C. NEWS Issue No. 222 Newsletter of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut January 2010

PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE archaeology more highly visible to worked to revive the ASC the public. As I outlined in my last newsletter which had become January 7, 2010 letter to you, I have been sitting in haphazardly published in the early on FOSA’s board meetings and part of the decade. After getting it Dear Members, Cynthia Redman has been sitting on back on a regular schedule, he ours, so for the first time we are passed the initiative on to Lee West I hope that this finds you having talking directly to each other. As in 1998 allowing Lee to bring it into enjoyed a very happy holiday the next year unfolds you should maturity. From his humble efforts season and that you are enjoying the begin to see some of the benefits of this present publication has sprung. new year, even though at this this cross collaboration, and I will His genuine interest in and writing we seem to be in a deep continue to bring these to your generosity to the Society will be freeze - so much for global attention in this space. sorely missed. warming. Keep in mind that every day from now on is getting a little Our Spring Meeting is scheduled for If you have not yet visited our longer. April 24th and will be held at website, I strongly urge you to do Western Connecticut State so. (www.connarchaeology.org). To help you dispel what seasonal University in Danbury. This Jay McMahon continues to up-date blues that may linger, we are co meeting will be a slight departure and improve it so that each visit is a sponsoring the program Mummy from past meetings in that Dr. new experience. He has recently Dearest, with FOSA at the end of Laurie Weinstein, our host at included a link to the FOSA website this month. This program features Westconn, is busy putting together so that you can quickly move back speakers Ronald Beckett and Gerald the program, giving our program and forth gathering information Conlogue both from Quinnipiac chairman Dawn Brown a brief from both organizations. It is the University who will present the respite. This is the first time that the latest on Paleoimaging as it has Society has met in Danbury and IN THIS ISSUE been applied to mummies. This Laurie’s program will be oriented President’s Message 1 series of non-invasive techniques toward the ethnology of early local News from the State 2 which give us a view inside ancient Indian populations which should Archaeologist human remains, holds the promise give us insight into lifestyles which FOSA 2 of yielding new insights into pattern the artifacts and features we Norwalk Community College 3 prehistoric and early historic life recover. There are more details on Connecticut Archaeology 7 Center and death. See below for further this below. AIA 10 details and directions to the Smith SHPO/CRM Reports 10 Middle School in Glastonbury. On a more somber note I just heard Institute for American Indian 11 of the death of long time member Studies This co-sponsorship is part of the Tom Harris on November 19th in Publications 13 current efforts on the part of the Norwalk Hospital. Tom had been National Park Service 14 Boards of ASC and FOSA to move very active in the Society in the late Calendar 15 closer to each other in an effort to 1990s serving as a member of the ASC Officers 15 amplify our voice and make board from 1996 to 2000. He also Membership form 15 FOSA Annual Meeting 16 1 President’s Message – continued from p. 1 background, commitment and work paleoimaging devices aid them in ethic to do the important job of examining human remains, animal other links that he has included, SHPO staff archaeologist for remains and artifacts, without however, which makes the site so Connecticut. We look forward to performing an autopsy or damaging rich and worthy of a visit. It is very working with him and introducing them from their original discovered easy to lose yourself in the him to the state’s archaeological state. We all probably have had an delightful profusion of community. x-ray at sometime. This same archaeological articles, notes, and Nick Bellantoni system can image artifacts such as a blogs. I can think of no more State Archaeologist sealed container or mummified educational and entertaining way to human remains to disclose or spend an hour. suggest what’s inside without a physical intrusion. Gerald With all of this ahead, can spring be NEWS FROM OTHER Conlogue is very skillful at this task; far behind? As usual I ask for your ORGANIZATIONS he has x-rayed objects in museums advice and suggestions on ways in without removing them from their which we can make the society display case. Complimenting the x- serve you better. Please feel free to ray is endoscopy, where a camera contact me via- e-mail (see below) probe attached to a flexible rod can or approach me at any of our up- travel through a passageway in an coming meetings. I look forward to object and its voyage through that seeing you in Glastonbury on the object can be observed on an th FOSA NEWS 30 . external monitor. This is Ronald Dan Cruson See the last page of this newsletter Beckett’s area of expertise. They President for the flyer announcing FOSA’s have also in some cases gone to the annual meeting on January 30, extent of performing a CT-scan 2010 and the guest speakers, who (Computed Tomography) on News from the State are being co-sponsored by ASC. To artifacts. With CT-scanning one whet your appetite for their can get a 3 dimensional picture Archaeologist presentation, FOSA member Jim instead of the 2 dimensional of the Trocchi has prepared the following x-ray. It produces a slice or layer- Daniel Forrest Joins SHPO background article. by-layer high-resolution image. Though these technologies can be We are more than pleased to PALEOIMAGING applied for various purposes in announce that Dan Forrest has archaeology, Ron and Jerry have started work in the Commission on The guest speakers for the FOSA most notably used them to examine Culture and Tourism, as the new Annual Meeting of 2010 are mummies. All three devices have Historic Preservation and Museum Professors Ronald Beckett and been used to disclose such things as Division archaeologist, replacing Gerald Conlogue of Quinnipiac the true or suggested cause of death Dave Poirier, who took early College. Their most noted work in of individuals who have been retirement last summer. recent years has been hosting the mummified. National Geographic Channel’s Dan had been working since 1992 ‘The Mummy Road Show’. My first thought of mummies is for the Public Archaeology Survey Through their experience and skills Egypt; something far removed from Team, Inc. and did his gained from careers in medical North America history and undergraduate and graduate studies imaging, they have adapted its use archaeology. But after researching in Anthropology at the University of to non-medical purposes, called Beckett’s and Conlogue’s work it Connecticut. Dan would like to paleoimaging, the imaging of old opened my eyes to so much more. stress that he is very honored to and ancient objects or artifacts. When something is mummified we have been selected for this position Paleoimaging uses x-rays, think of it being accomplished and can only hope to serve the endoscopy and CT-scans to non- artificially, but it can also occur archaeological community of CT as destructively examine artifacts. naturally. Even though there is a well as Dave Poirier. Their skills with paleoimaging have plethora of mummies attributed to assisted research projects around the Egypt, mummies have been found While we all miss Dave Poirier’s world. on all continents except Antarctica. expertise, judgment and personality, But we are sure there are we are excited to have someone like Just as ground-penetrating radar can unrecovered naturally mummified Dan attempt to fill his big shoes! aid the archaeologists in disclosing remains preserved in the Antarctica We believe that Dan has the anomalies below ground, so can ice because of failed polar

2 expeditions. For mummification to taxidermy? By definition what is Bibliography: occur naturally the environment has the difference between the two? Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue to be conducive to preventing post Mummification is any dead body 2005 Mummy Dearest mortem decay. Therefore, such that has been preserved by heat, The Lyon Press, Guilford, Ct. places as the polar regions, deserts cold, special preparation, etc., while and peat bogs have this ability to taxidermy is the art or process of Malam, John preserve and mummify. stuffing and mounting the preserved 2003 Mummies skins of dead animals for Kingfisher, Boston Then of course there are many preservation or exhibition. These cultures around the world that are interesting questions that Ron practice artificial means to preserve and Jerry were contemplating at the Archaeology their deceased, so they can view end of their book, “Mummy their loved ones after death. There Dearest”, because of certain Club of are also the famous and infamous of circumstances in a case they were Norwalk history who have been artificially working on. Both are preservation mummified such as Lenin of Russia processes, but where do we draw the Community College and Eva Peron of Argentina. To my line between the two? Perhaps this surprise, President Abraham may be brought out more clearly at CLUB MEETINGS Lincoln was mummified to preserve the Annual Meeting. his remains for that 12-day tour after November 12, 2009 his death to pay him homage. Ron and Jerry have worked with a Native Peoples and Plants at the diverse group of people from all Mashantucket Reservation In the past mummies could be walks of life and all over the globe. Kimberly Kasper purchased legally and illegally for They have dealt with world UMASS Amherst museums, collectors and carnival renowned anthropologists, museum sideshows. You could even buy directors, anonymous collectors, them out of catalogues. Ron and carnival operators and many people Jerry have also proven some of that live on straw mats and dirt these mummies to be fakes using floors. Ron and Jerry deserve their non-destructive methods. Some admiration and respect for their of these mummies they have been cultural sensitivity, humility, code called in to investigate have some of conduct and work ethic they legendary tale to go along with display to all. They even them. With their scientific sympathize with those in these third equipment they have revealed world nations that loot mummy evidence to determine the remains to sell, because they mummies’ age, sex, bone wear, understand these people are only injuries or illnesses. Often times trying to put food on their families’ this evidence has proven or tables. Looting is a problem, but Mashantucket Pequot Fort (1675-1680 suggested contradiction to the experts in the field are coming up A.D.)- Feature 92 - trash pit) mummies’ legends. with alternate means to employ looters to assist in mummy retrieval This talk discussed plant use at Animals can also be mummified, and research. twelve Historic period just as humans are. This was the Mashantucket Pequot sites on the case in ancient Egypt where animals I hope I have shed some light on Mashantucket Pequot Reservation such as cats, dogs, snakes and what you can expect from the 2010 located in southeastern Connecticut. various other husbanded animals Annual Meeting lecture and These sites, which date between were mummified to accompany the presentation. You will be in for an 1660-1930 A.D., reflect integration dead to their next life. The most exciting day and I am sure you will of Old and New World plants, as the spectacular animal mummy find is be able to relate to the technology Mashantucket Pequot responded to that of a naturally mummified baby that these talented individuals increasingly restricted access to mammoth found in the Siberian employ to your own experiences traditional habitats and a shrinking tundra, estimated at 40,000 years with medical exams and procedures. land base. Through an investigation old. (See National Geographic, May I am really psyched for this of the domesticated crops and wild 2009). occasion. plants, we can gain an Jim Trocchi understanding of the decisions Lastly, when does one draw the line involved in the plant-related aspects between mummification and of Mashantucket Pequot foodways during this time period. 3 February 11, 2010 adjutant, Sturmbannführer Otto The Death and Ultimate Günsche, entered the study to Remains of Adolf Hitler: inspect the bodies, which were Archaeology and Forensics found seated on a small sofa; Eva's Nicholas Bellantoni to Hitler's left and slumped away University of Connecticut from him. Günsche has since stated that Hitler "...sat...sunken over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his own pistol.”

It is widely believed that Hitler and his wife Eva Braun killed themselves in the bunker, in order to avoid possible capture. Accounts suggest that his remains were As WWII was ending, Russian burned and buried at the site, and Kimberly Kasper recovers botanical later moved by the Soviets to other remains by flotation troops closed in on Berlin as Hitler and other Nazi officials confined sites in Germany in the decades after the war. But this is uncertain. Kimberly is a Ph.D candidate in themselves to a bunker beneath the Other reports suggest that Adolf Anthropology at the University of city. Hitler married Eva Braun in a Hitler may not have shot himself Massachusetts, Amherst. Since small civil ceremony in a map room dead and perhaps did not even die in 2000, Kimberly has worked in the within the bunker complex. Hitler his bunker. The lack of public field of archaeology with a focus on hosted a modest wedding breakfast information concerning the archaeobotany, the study of plant with his new wife, then took whereabouts of Hitler's remains remains. She received her first Secretary Traudl Junge to another encouraged rumors that Hitler may Master's Degree in Anthropology room and dictated his last will and have survived the end of World War from Florida State University in testament. He signed these II. Records kept by the Soviet KGB 2003 were she worked on analyzing documents at 04:00 and then retired and Russian FSB were opened in materials from Early Archaic to bed (some sources say Hitler 1992 and matched the widely underwater sites in Florida and dictated the last will and testament accepted version of Hitler's death, Copper Age sites in Hungary. immediately before the wedding, but that his death was by suicide by Kimberly completed another all sources agree on the timing of gunshot and cyanide poisoning. Master's Degree program at the the signing). Hitler and Braun lived However, the Russian archives Univ. of Sheffield focusing on together as husband and wife in the yielded more detailed autopsy environmental archaeology. At bunker for fewer than 40 hours. information along with what Sheffield she worked on happened to the corpse. What archaeobotanical remains from became of Hitler’s remains is still an various projects in Hungary and open historical question and it was Greece from the Neolithic to Bronze thought the answer could lie in the Age periods. In 2004, she began the Russian archives in Moscow, where Ph.D. program at the University of among other artifacts, there is a Massachusetts where her research piece of human skull with a bullet focus shifted to New England and wound that the Russians say is that began to work with the of Adolf Hitler. Mashantucket Pequot. Currently, she holds a dissertation research Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun fellowship at the Mashantucket Some witnesses reported hearing a Pequot Research Center and loud gunshot. After waiting a few Museum. minutes, Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, with Bormann at his side, opened the door to the small study. Linge Winter-Spring Meetings listed later stated he immediately noted a below will tentatively be held at scent of burnt almonds, a common 7:30 PM at the Culinary Arts observation made in the presence of Russian held skull fragment Dinning Room at NCC prussic acid, the aqueous form of hydrogen cyanide. Hitler's SS

4 As part of the filming of a new Nicholas Bellantoni, the State Community College archeology series on The History Channel, Archaeologist, is an adjunct faculty club since 2006 and is participating MysteryQuest, Nicholas Bellantoni, member in the Anthropology in club excavations as well as other was brought on a fact-finding Department, and teaches digs in Connecticut. She is also a mission from Germany to Moscow introductory courses, independent graduate of Norwalk Community in search of evidence. He studies, and serves on graduate College and is looking forward to conducted an exploratory dig committees. Dr. Bellantoni serves as acquiring new experience and through a patch of earth where the state archaeologist with the CT knowledge in the archaeology field Hitler’s remains were said to have State Museum of Natural History within the United States. been reburied by the Soviets in the and Archaeology Center at the decades after World War II, University of Connecticut. He searching for bone fragments. He received his doctorate in also gained access to the Russian anthropology from UConn in 1987 national archives, where he and was shortly thereafter appointed reviewed documents related to the state archaeologist. His duties are Soviets’ handling of Hitler’s many, but primarily include the remains, and examined and gained preservation of archaeological sites DNA evidence from blood and bone in the state. His research fragments the Russians have said for background is the analysis of decades belonged to the Nazi skeletal remains from eastern North dictator. America. He has been excavating in Connecticut for over 30 years.

March 11, 2010 Iron Age in Eastern Europe Research based on artifacts from Burial Site in Cieblowice Duze, Poland Magdalena Kulczynska University of Lodz, Poland In Magdalena’s lecture she will present the research from her master Bunker where Hitler’s and Braun’s bodies thesis which was published by were said to be burned and buried “National Museum of Archeology” and titled “Cieblowice Duze, Ein Hitler’s Escape premiered Sept. 16 Graberfeld der Przeworsk-Kulture and featured three UConn faculty: im sudwestilichen Masowien.” Nicholas Bellantoni, Linda (translation: Cieblowice Duze Strausbaugh, and Dawn Pettinelli. cemetery from Przeworsk culture in Together they investigated what central Poland). She will present a became of Adolf Hitler’s remains in short history of the Iron Age in Magdalena Kulczynska is a 2001 the days, months, and years after the Europe which will concentrate on graduate of University of Lodz in end of World War II. At the revealing finds from Cieblowice Poland. She received her degree in university’s Center for Applied Duze which is a burial site from the archeology with a specific focus on Genetics, Linda Strausbaugh closed Przeworsk culture in Poland dated the Roman Period of Iron Age in her lab for three days to work from 150 A.D. through 350 A.D. Eastern Europe. She participated in exclusively on the Hitler project’s During the excavations performed several excavations in Poland from DNA analysis of blood and skull between 1984 and 1991, an Neolithic to Middle Ages periods, fragments taken from the Russians. archeologist from the Museum of most of which were burial sites form In addition, Pettinelli conducted Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Marek Roman Period. Her Master thesis tests on the soil samples excavated Karolczyk, discovered 149 graves, a was combined with work of another by Nick. The results of Nick’s cremation place and several loose graduate, Magdalena research and the tests results will be artifacts. The artifacts and the Dziegielewska, and published by revealed by Nick as he presents his burial site as a whole were classified National Museum of Archeology in adventure to Germany and Russia in as one of the most significant sites Warsaw in series Monumenta search of what became of Adolf characteristic of the Przeworsk Archaeologica Barbarica in 2008 Hitler. culture, but there were also several written in German. Magdalena has traits differentiating it from other been a member of Norwalk 5 Przeworsk burial sites. Social The research was also important Avocation Program at Norwalk structure, burial types and because it enabled me to develop a Community College where I equipment found in the graves are general model concerning long term received my certificate in 1996. I typical for this society. However, processes of cultural change and was awarded my Bachelor of Arts in the time line and the influences adaptation in South-Central Sociology/Anthropology from found among the artifacts make it Connecticut. Furthermore this Western Connecticut State unique for this culture and in this model can be used to compare and University in 1999, my Master of geographical topography. contrast the patterns of important Arts in Anthropology from Hunter archaeological cultures in College in 2002, and my Doctor of Magdalena will present the artifacts prehistoric Southern New England Arts in Anthropology in 2009, from she documented and the research such as the Small Stemmed Point the Graduate Center of the City made for this publication. and Susquehanna Traditions. University of New York (CUNY). My scholarly focus in graduate But the research I performed as a school was the analysis of stone graduate student as also piqued my tools, which I studied under the April 8, 2010 interest in hunter-gatherer tutelage of my renowned advisor Dr. Organization of Mobility during archaeology, especially as it pertains Bill Parry, and my area focus was the Late Archaic in South-Central to simple, mobile foraging societies, the archaeological Northeast. I have Connecticut or what can colloquially be referred performed lithic (stone tool) Cosimo Sgarlata to as “small-scale hunter-gatherers”. analysis working for Historical To the degree that archaeologists Perspectives of Westport, have studied cultural evolution Connecticut, and I am currently during human prehistory, this working as an adjunct professor at preoccupation has inevitably Western Connecticut State focused on those punctuated events University. My dissertation, such as the origins of agriculture, published after graduation, was the rise of city states, or the earliest entitled, “The Upland Archaeology stone tool manufacturing. But for of West Rock Ridge in South- most of human prehistory human Central Connecticut: Small West Rock in 1891 social and economic existence has Stemmed Point Tradition Land – been organized in terms of: close Use Intensification.” My dissertation research at the face to face inter-contact, in small, Graduate Center of the City mobile societies, subsisting from University of New York focused on whatever resources were locally REPORT FROM THE FIELD an upland environment in South- available. These societies changed NEWS FROM THE SUMMIT OF Central Connecticut, West Rock and adapted along with changing GALLOWS HILL Ridge, and how analysis of environmental, technological and The fall semester at the Gallows Hill archaeological data from this demographic circumstances. The site started with a bang on opening environment could contribute to evolution of technology, social day with the recovery of both general and specific knowledge forms, and subsistence strategies in historic and prehistoric artifacts concerning the prehistoric hunter- small-scale hunter-gatherer societies from the new block excavation gatherers who once occupied this is no less a part of overall human outside the late 18th century part of the state. The research was cultural evolution than any of the building. As an enthusiastic able to demonstrate a positive punctuated forms of human progress Introduction to Archaeology class correlation between the usage of listed above. marginal rugged environments such began to dig, a number of historic as West Rock Ridge and increasing redware sherds and prehistoric lithic population density during the Late debitage were found. Now, several Archaic Period. This correlation is weeks later, one excavation unit has best explained due to constraints on been completed and five others hunter-gatherer mobility: 1) larger continue to be dug. Several dozen local subsistence groups requiring redware sherds have been more frequent residential moves as recovered. Unlike the situation in resources were used up more the adjacent building, most of quickly, and 2) population packing these sherds are very small, the Artifacts from Wintergreen Notch Site of discrete residential units as result of weathering forces such as available territory became scarcer. frost-fracturing and quite likely the My interest in archaeology began effects of trampling by the site’s with the Archaeology as an historic period occupants. Based on 6 rim size and shape, at least three or Curtis of Columbia University’s four different vessels are Lamont-Doherty Laboratory were represented. Two cofitted rim able to narrow the date to 1827 sherds are from a bowl and another based on the dendrochronological is probably from a plate or dish. In analysis of eight of the beams in the addition, a sherd of dry-bodied barn’s frame which still retained (unglazed) stoneware was found. their outer-most annual growth Probably the fragment of a bowl or rings, a basic requirement for tree- other hollow ware vessel, it is the ring dating that allows the year of only sherd of its kind found at the the cutting of the tree to be site over the years. established. The dismantling and reconstruction of the barn was done Prehistoric artifacts found in the by historic carpenter Brett Brierley Ezra Schofield initial excavations at the block and the addition to the Bates- several years ago consisted of a very This barn was historically part of Scofield House that connects it to large quartzite cobble-hammerstone the Bates-Scofield house site. The the barn was designed by architect that was also used as an anvil stone house, built in the 1730’s and Neil Hank and built by the A. V. and quartz lithic debitage. The size named for its original farming Tuchy Builders. It greatly enhances of the hammer-anvil stone was family, had been moved in the late the DHS’s operations and mission, suggestive of the area as having 1960’s to its present location on 45 boasting new classroom and been used as a lithic workshop, Old King’s Highway, where it administrative space and, in the which is supported by the results of serves as the headquarters for the barn, a spacious exhibit hall. To the current excavations. So far, Darien Historical Society. The celebrate, an opening dedication of many pieces of quartz debitage have barn, left behind along with much of the structure was held on September been found, some of large size, as the backyard of the Bates-Scofield 20, complete with a wonderful well as a few chert flakes. Other house, was used for many years by exhibit chronicling this major items include a smaller cobble Mr. Dick Sanford, who donated it to project of the society. Entitled “A hammerstone, two chert projectile the Darien Historical Society. Preservation Tale: How the House points, two fragmentary quartz The sale of the property and its Moved and the Barn Found It”, it points and several quartz biface impending development meant featured a series of historic fragments. that the barn would have to be paintings, maps and photographs of removed prior to construction. the Bates-Scofield farmstead and the two buildings on it. The NCC Archaeology Club worked Salvage Archaeology with members of the Darien The Darien Historical Society is in Action - The Scofield Historical Society and local Boy open from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. on Barn Project Scouts to excavate a number of Tuesdays through Fridays. House shovel test pits on the property tours are given on Wednesdays and before it was developed. Thursdays from 2-4:00 p.m. (it is advised to call ahead at 655-9233). Many dozens of artifacts were recovered. Most of these were domestic items such as glass Connecticut containers and ceramic sherds, chiefly dating to the 19th century. Archaeology Center In addition, a few pieces of quartz and chert lithic debitage indicated Edible and Medicinal Plants: An that the site had also been used by Ethnobotanical Tour of UConn’s In 2005, members of the NCC Native Americans in prehistoric Greenhouses Archaeology Club were asked by times. Ms. Judy Groppa, Executive Dr. Gregory Anderson, Professor Emeritus, EEB, UConn Director of the Darien Historical The Scofield barn was also Saturday, February 6, 10 am to 12 Society, to conduct archaeological investigated to determine its age. noon investigations at the Bates-Scofield James Sexton, architectural th UConn Storrs location (map will be site, where an early 19 century historian, estimated that it was built sent to participants) barn was to be removed and the land between 1820 and 1830 based on its Advance registration required: $20 developed. method of framing. Professor ($15 for Museum members) William Wright and Ms. Ashley

7 Adults and children ages 10 and with Jeff Kalin, a consultant to Russia to examine and gather above; children must be museum curators and evidence. While in Europe he accompanied by an adult archaeologists, who has 25 years of studied human bone fragments, read experience in the analysis of ancient once-secret documents, and Escape the cold and dreary February artifacts and as a producer of gathered soil and other samples for weather and join Professor Gregory museum-quality reproductions. Mr. forensic analysis. Dr. Linda Anderson for this special tour of the Kalin is a recognized expert in Strausbaugh and her team from Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Clovis point replication and other UConn’s Center for Applied Research Greenhouses, recently re- stone tools. He has constructed Genetics and Technology analyzed organized by biome. Explore the prehistoric sets and props for the biological samples for DNA different ecological communities of filmmakers and his wood-fired evidence. What they discovered the world, plant biology, and the replica pottery can be found in deepened the mystery of Hitler’s diverse uses of plants by local private and public collections. final moments and brought people around the world and Proficient in crafting Native international attention to this medical researchers. American art, Mr. Kalin also offers multidisciplinary approach of hands-on workshops, sharing his forensic anthropology and forensic Dr. Gregory Anderson’s research uncommon artistry with others. Join genetics at UConn. During the centers on the origin and evolution the Museum and Archeology Center screening of this program, of domesticated plants. He is an for the unique opportunity to learn Bellantoni and Strausbaugh will expert in the ethnobotanical uses of about and make bone tools from this offer intriguing behind-the-scenes plants (use of plants by local renowned artist and educator. commentary of the MysteryQuest people) for food and medicine. He production. was named a UConn Board of Presented by the Connecticut State Trustees Distinguished Professor in Museum of Natural History and Presented by the Connecticut State 2009. Anderson also served as Vice Connecticut Archaeology Center, Museum of Natural History, Provost for Research and Graduate part of the College of Liberal Arts Department of Molecular and Cell Education and Research at the and Sciences at UConn. Biology, and Center for Applied University of Connecticut. 860.486.4460 - Genetics and Technology, part of http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ the College of Liberal Arts and Presented by the Connecticut State Sciences at UConn. Museum of Natural History and 860.486.4460 - Department of Ecology and MysteryQuest—Behind the Scenes http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ Evolutionary Biology, part of the of The History Channel’s “The College of Liberal Arts and Death of Hitler” Eighteenth Century Medicine and Sciences at UConn. Dr. Nicholas Bellantoni, State Dentistry: A Visit to the Hezekiah 860.486.4460 - Archaeologist, Connecticut Chaffee House http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ Archaeology Center, UConn Saturday, March 20, 10 am to 12 Dr. Linda Strausbaugh, Molecular noon and Cell Biology and Center for Windsor location (map will be Ancient Technology—Making Applied Genetics and Technology, mailed to participants) Bone Tools UConn Advance registration required: $20 Jeff Kalin, Primitive Technologies, Sunday, March 14, 3 pm ($15 for Museum members) Inc. Biology/Physics Building, Room Adults and children ages 8 and Saturday, March 6, 12 noon to 4 pm 130 above; children must be Museum of Natural History (map No registration needed: Free accompanied by an adult will be mailed to participants) Adults and children ages 10 and Advance registration required: $40 above; children must be Step back into the 18th century with ($30 for Museum members) accompanied by an adult country doctor Hezekiah Chaffee Includes materials fee and discover how he trained for and Adults and children ages 8 and In 2009 the History Channel practiced his profession 250 years above; children must be approached one of the foremost ago. With our tour leader, museum accompanied by an adult forensic archaeologists in the United educator Julia Baldini, examine the States, UConn’s own Dr. Nicholas tools of Dr. Chaffee’s trade and see For over two million years our Bellantoni, to be the lead researcher what his ledgers tell us about the ancestors made and used bone tools in a documentary investigating the health and medical treatment of like sewing needles, harpoons, and death of Adolph Hitler. Dr. Connecticut citizens during that awls. Now you can explore the Bellantoni agreed, joining the period of history. Participants will ancient art of making bone tools production team in Germany and also learn about medical pioneer Dr.

8 Horace Henry Hayden of Windsor, Sunday, March 28, 3 pm Saturday, April 10, 10 am to 12 known as “The Father of the Dental Biology/Physics Building, Room noon Profession,” who established the 130 Museum of Natural History (map American Society of Dental No registration needed: Free will be mailed to participants) Surgeons in 1840. Adults and children 10 and above; Advance registration required: $25 children must be accompanied by an ($20 for Museum members) Presented by the Connecticut State adult Includes materials fee Museum of Natural History and Adults and children ages 8 and Connecticut Archaeology Center, In a series of entertaining essays, above; children must be part of the College of Liberal Arts geoscientist Jelle Z. De Boer accompanied by an adult and Sciences at UConn. describes how early settlers 860.486.4460 - discovered and utilized Ancient peoples in New England http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ Connecticut's natural resources. and around the world used animal Their successes as well as failures hides for clothing and accessories. form the very basis of this state's Many of the surviving North Ancient Technology—Soapstone history. For example, Chatham's American examples of “possible Carving gold played a role in the acquisition bags” are intricately decorated with Cheri Collins, Museum Staff of its charter and Middletown's lead beads. Modern artists continue this Saturday, March 27, two sessions: helped the Connecticut colony gain tradition and their work can be seen 10 am to 12 noon or 1:30 pm to its freedom during the American in art galleries and museums. In this 3:30 pm Revolution. Fertile soils in the workshop learn how hides were Museum of Natural History (map Central Valley fueled the state's prepared and used to make clothing will be mailed to participants) development into an agricultural and other items. Then, make and Advance registration required: $25 powerhouse and iron ores in the bead your own synthetic or suede ($20 for Museum members) western highlands helped trigger its “possibles bag” to take home. Includes materials fee manufacturing eminence. Geology Adults and children ages 10 and not only shaped the state's physical Presented by the Connecticut State above; children must be landscape, but also provided an Museum of Natural History and accompanied by an adult economic base and played a cultural Connecticut Archaeology Center, role by inspiring folklore, paintings, part of the College of Liberal Arts Because of its unique geological and poems. Even the Statue of and Sciences at UConn. characteristics such as heat retention Liberty, a quintessential symbol of 860.486.4460 - and ease in carving and polishing, America, rests on Connecticut's http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ soapstone has been used by people Stony Creek granite. In his talk, throughout the world to produce DeBoer will describe the marvel of Saturday Afternoons at the many different items of utility and Connecticut's geologic diversity and Museum beauty. Learn more about the explain how past climates, Saturday, April 10, 1:30 pm to 3:30 geology and striking versatility of earthquakes, and meteorites impact pm: You Are Not Alone! this mineral and see examples of the people who made Connecticut Museum of Natural History – Free! ancient and modern soapstone their home. De Boer is the author of implements and art objects. Then, Stories in Stone: How Geology You are a living host to millions of using both traditional and modern Influenced Connecticut History and other organisms. In fact, microbial tools, participants will make a Culture (Wesleyan University cells in the human body vastly carving of their own design to take Press). There will be a book signing outnumber human cells. The home. after the talk. scientific term for this area of study is called the Human Microbiome. Presented by the Connecticut State Presented by the Connecticut State Take a closer look at many of the Museum of Natural History and Museum of Natural History and different organisms that live in and Connecticut Archaeology Center, Connecticut Archaeology Center, on your body, from commensal part of the College of Liberal Arts part of the College of Liberal Arts arthropods to beneficial (and not so and Sciences at UConn. and Sciences at UConn. beneficial) bacteria. You will be 860.486.4460 - 860.486.4460 - surprised to discover what is living http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ on and in you!

Stories in Stone Ancient Technology—Make and Explore the Natural History of Dr. Jelle Z. DeBoer, Harold T. Bead a “Possibles Bag” Health by taking a closer look at the Stearns Professor of Earth Science Cheri Collins, Museum Staff human body and how it works! Emeritus, Wesleyan University Drop in any time between 1:30 pm

9 and 3:30 pm this Saturday afternoon Biology Central Services, part of the and discover what is living on and College of Liberal Arts and in you! Recommended for students Sciences at UConn. in grades 1 through 5, accompanied 860.486.4460 - American by an adult. http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ Institute of Archaeology Presented by the Connecticut State The Sailors of the Mary Rose— Museum of Natural History and Soldiers, Seamen, or Gentry? A Connecticut Archaeology Center, Forensic Analysis part of the College of Liberal Arts Rose Drew, Osteoarchaeologist, Hartford Society Contact and Sciences at UConn. University of York, England, and Prof. Martha Risser 860.486.4460 - University of Oslo, Norway 860-297-2386 http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ Sunday, April 18, 3 pm [email protected] Biology Physics Building, Room Scientific Illustration of Medicinal 130 Tuesday, March 02, 2010 at 8 PM Plants and Animals No registration needed: Free Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College Virge Kask, Scientific Illustrator, Adults and children 10 and above; (Norton Lecture) Biology Central Services, UConn children must be accompanied by an Archaeology in Sri Lanka: Saturday, April 17, 10 am to 12 adult Challenges and Prospects for the noon Future Museum of Natural History (Map The Mary Rose, a warship Location: Trinity College, McCook will be mailed to participants) belonging to Henry VIII, sunk Auditorium Advance registration required: $25 during a skirmish with the French ($20 for Museum members) on July 19, 1545, taking the crew New Haven Society Contact Includes materials fee with it. Archaeological excavations Lisa Brody Adults and children ages 8 and were begun in the 1970s, and 203-436-3575 above; children must be thousands of the artifacts as well as [email protected] accompanied by an adult the remains of approximately 200 crewmembers have been recovered. Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 4:30 Scientific illustrations can often Osteoarchaeologist Rose Drew has PM capture the texture and depth of a been analyzing the skeletal remains Susan Wood, Oakland University subject better than photographs. of the crew to better understand (Metcalf Lecture) Virge Kask, Scientific Illustrator for their health, activity, and lifestyles. The Flavian Women: A Family UConn’s Biology Central Services She has found indications of health Drama on Coins and published illustrator of problems among the skeletal Location: Yale University, Phelps scientific books, will bring together remains, including evidence of Hall, Room 407 a collection of plants and animals rickets, scurvy, moderate bone used medicinally throughout history, injuries, and possible skeletal Monday, March 01, 2010 at 4:30 such as the leech (Hirudo markers of past strenuous activity. PM medicinalis) and the Aloe plant In her talk, Ms. Drew will present Nancy Wilkie, Carleton College (Aloe vera), for this illustration an overview of the Mary Rose (Norton Lecture) workshop. Participants will learn to recovery project and give “bone Archaeology in Sri Lanka: prepare accurate drawings of biographies” for some of the Challenges and Prospects for the biological specimens, using crewmembers. Future dissecting microscopes and the Location: Yale University, Phelps naked eye, to communicate specific Presented by the Connecticut State Hall, Room 407 characteristics of their subject. Museum of Natural History and Then, using an item from the Connecticut Archaeology Center, collection as their subject, part of the College of Liberal Arts STATE HISTORIC participants will attempt their own and Sciences at UConn. PRESERVATION OFFICE scientific illustration. Ms. Kask will 860.486.4460 - also bring some of her illustrations http://www.mnh.uconn.edu/ The following news items from for an upcoming field guide to various organizations are being Central America, providing the class To register for a program or for shared with us courtesy of Dave a special preview. more information, contact the Poirier, former Staff Archaeologist, Connecticut Archaeology Center at Historic Preservation and Museum Presented by the Connecticut State 860-486-4460 or E-mail to Division, Connecticut Commission Museum of Natural History and www.cac.uconn.edu on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History

10 and Film, (also known as the Join diver and shipwreck sleuth unknown and has yet to be Connecticut State Historic Mark Munro for a thrilling talk identified. Is she, as the evidence Preservation Office or “SHPO”). about his investigation of a would suggest, a casualty of the shipwreck in Fisher's Island Sound. hurricane dubbed the "Long Island Express?" Lectures Announced On September 21st, 1938 a category three hurricane struck the woefully Admission $10, Members of the The Custom House Maritime unprepared and ill informed New New London Maritime Society $8. Museum England coast. This powerful storm February 18, 2010 claimed the lives of 682 people and CUSTOM HOUSE MARITIME Third Thursday lecture: 6:30-8:00 5974 vessels were lost, damaged, or MUSEUM 150 Bank Street, New PM destroyed. In this presentation London, Connecticut 06320 - Three's a Charm: A Casualty of the Mark will explore the discovery of a phone: 860-447-2501 1938 Hurricane? shipwreck, located off the Connecticut coast within Fishers www.nlmaritimesociety.org Island Sound, which was previously

CRM Reports The following table is a sample of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) activity in Connecticut. This is a list of CRM reports transferred from State Historic Preservation Office to the public archive at UConn, shared with us courtesy of Dave Poirier, Staff Archaeologist.

CRM Reports Transferred to UConn's Dodd Center Rep # Authors Year Subject 1795 Kimbrough & Sullivan 2009 Buttonball Road cell tower, Old Lyme 1796 Reeve, Silvergalde & von 2009 Townwide assessment survey, Easton Jena 1797 Sullivan & Kimbrough 2009 Pawcatuck Avenue cell tower, Stonington 1798 Historical Perspectives 2009 Hunter Haven bikeway, Stratford 1799 Banks 2009 Farmington River trail expansion, Burlington 1800 Sullivan & Kimbrough 2009 Mile Creek Road cell tower, Old Lyme 1801 Franz & Gardner 2009 Army Reserve Center, Waterbury 1802 George et al. 2009 Daniel Benton Homestead, Tolland 1803 Heritage Consultants 2009 Brainerd Road cell tower, East Lyme 1804 Kodlick & Kuder 2009 Route 1 bridge, Waterford 1805 Heritage Consultants 2009 Kent Road elderly housing, Cornwall 1806 Schneiderman-Fox & Sandy 2009 Rentschler Field pickle lot, East Hartford 1807 Labadia, Keegan & George 2009 Church, Union & South Streets, Bristol 1808 Walwer & Walwer 2009 Railroad Station parking garage, Stratford XXX Shaw 2008 Sunrise Resort documentation, East Haddam XXX Capotosto 2008 Mosquito control program (c.1910-1930s) photographs XXX Saunders & Schneiderman- 2009 Roosevelt Mills documentation, Vernon Fox

The Institute for American Indian Studies Washington, CT 860-868-0518 WWW.BIRDSTONE.ORG [email protected] Winter Calendar of Events

Winter Film Festival Saturday, January 16th & Sunday, January 17th at 2:00 pm

They were known as the Anasazi or Ancient Ones and came to Chaco Canyon over a thousand years ago. Rivaling the

11 IAIS - CONTINUED Mayans and Aztecs in sophistication, their culture flourished in the sandstone canyons and towering mesas of the New Mexican desert for hundreds of years before suddenly vanishing. In “The Lost People of Chaco Canyon” explore one of the great mysteries of archaeology. Run time: 50 minutes. Included in regular museum admission. $5 Adults; $ 4.50 Seniors; $3 Kids; IAIS Members Free

Winter Survival Walk Saturday, January 23rd 12:30pm – 2:30pm

Get ready to spend a fun afternoon outdoors searching for signs of wildlife and learning basic winter survival strategies with Primitive Skills Practitioner, Jamie Leffler. How would you start a fire in snow? What could you eat? Where would you find shelter? These questions and more will be explored! Don’t forget to dress warmly. CT Educators may earn .2 CEUs. Space is limited, please call for reservations. Fee: $8 Adults; $6 IAIS Members: $4 Kids

Winter Film Festival Saturday, February 20th & Sunday, February 21st at 2:00 pm

Explore the issues of racial identity among Native and African Americans in “Black Indians: An American Story”. This documentary examines the coming together of these two groups in American history. Often ignored by mainstream America, these minority peoples have often shared a common past. Run time: 60 minutes. Included in regular museum admission. $5 Adults; $ 4.50 Seniors; $3 Kids; IAIS Members Free

Herbs for the Nervous System Saturday, February 27th 1:00pm – 3:00pm

Stress is an everyday common complaint that many are dealing with. Most Americans deal with stress and stressful situations on a daily basis. There are a plethora of herbs and holistic therapies that can help to support our Nervous Systems that in turn allow us to cope with stress, ultimately preventing many of the harmful effects stress can cause. Join local Herbalist and Flower Essence Practitioner Lupo Passero as she explains stress and its role within our health. She will share relaxing herbal remedies, essential oils and flower essences that will have you saying "Ahh…” CT Educators may earn .2 CEUs. Fee: $20 Adults; $ 15 IAIS Members. Please call for reservations.

Artifact Identification Day Sunday, February 28th 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Cleaning up those holiday decorations uncover some mystery items? Still trying to figure out where that basket from Grandma came from? Bring your Native American cultural items and stone artifacts to IAIS for identification by Dr. Lucianne Lavin, Director of Research and Collections. Limit 12 artifacts per person please. Fee: Included in regular museum admission; $5 Adults; $4.50 Seniors; $3 Kids

Litchfield Hills Archaeology Club Lecture Series Sunday, March 14th 3:00pm

“Old Artifacts, New Ideas: The Current Interpretation of the Binette Site Rock Shelter” will be presented by David H. Thompson, a professional archaeologist with his M.A. in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania. David is IAIS - CONTINUED the retired President of the Greater New Haven Archaeological Society and has directed numerous archaeological excavations in

12 Connecticut, including several in Litchfield County when he was affiliated with the Gunnery in Washington. He has participated in excavations throughout the United States and Mexico. The Binette site is a rock overhang in Naugatuck that was occupied for over 10,000 years, from Paleo-Indian times to the Colonial period. David will focus on its Late Archaic Laurention (Vosburg) component to discuss how tool analysis can provide information on human activities at Binette. Fee: $5 General Public; LHAC Members Free

Annual Maple Sugaring Festival Saturday, March 20th 11:00am – 3:00pm

Every year when the days are warm but the nights are still cold, IAIS holds its annual Maple Sugaring Festival. Enjoy pancakes made by IAIS staff, local maple syrup, coffee and orange juice (served from 11am-1pm) and learn how local Native Americans traditionally made maple syrup. Jim Dina will demonstrate the technique of collecting sap and boiling it down into syrup as he discusses its importance to Native American culture. Children’s activities will run from 1-3pm. Call for advance tickets. Fee: Advance tickets: $8 Adults; $6 Kids Tickets at the door: $10 Adults; $8 Kids

Winter Film Festival Saturday, March 27th & Sunday, March 28th 2:00pm

“The Pequot War was a pivotal event in early American history that set the stage for the ultimate domination of all Native Americans by Europeans. Narrated by two-time Academy Award nominee Roy Scheider, Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War presents a balanced view of events, the underlying causes, consequences and legacy of the first declared war in American history.” A film by Guy Perrotta & Charles Clemmons. Run time: 116 minutes Fee: Included in regular museum admission; $5 Adults; $4.50 Seniors; $3 Kids

By Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Drawing on archaeological and PUBLICATIONS Findlen Hood documentary sources and featuring objects from Colonial "A must-have volume for all Williamsburg’s holdings as well as ceramic enthusiasts, Salt-glazed public and private collections, the Stoneware in Early America is a book provides an invaluable long-overdue tribute to the often- overview of the goods found in neglected but indispensable role that early America. It is an essential stoneware played in the American reference for archaeologists, context." – Robert Hunter, editor, curators, and collectors. Ceramics in America Hardcover with jacket, 288 pages Stoneware was ubiquitous in 9” x 11-1/4” colonial and early American homes. 303 color images In the first comprehensive book on ISBN: 978-1-58465-820-7 the topic, Colonial Williamsburg $75.00 curators Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen Hood chronicle the Available through Salt-Glazed Stoneware in traditions of stoneware imported www.williamsburgmarketplace.com. from England and Germany as well Early America as the work of American potters.

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13 Destructive Investigations in the 21st Century will be held May 24- 28, 2010, at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site near Stanton, North Dakota. Lodging will be in the in the communities of Beulah, Hazen, and Riverdale, North Dakota. The field exercises will take place at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site. The park preserves the historic and archeological remnants of the culture and agricultural lifestyle of the Northern Plains Indians during the 18th and 19th centuries. Co-sponsors for the workshop include the National Park Service and the State Historical Society of North Dakota. This will be the twentieth year of the workshop dedicated to the use of geophysical, aerial photography, and other remote sensing methods as they apply to the identification, evaluation, conservation, and protection of archaeological resources across this Nation. The workshop will present lectures on the theory of operation, methodology, processing, and interpretation with on-hands use of the equipment in the field. There is a registration charge of $475.00. Application forms are available on the Midwest Archeological Center’s web page at www.nps.gov/history/mwac/. For further information, please contact Steven L. DeVore, Archeologist, National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, Federal Building, Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508-3873: tel: (402) 437-5392, ext. 141; fax: (402) 437-5098; email: [email protected].

National Park Service’s 2010 Archaeological Prospection Workshop

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