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
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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
FOSA NEWS
30th. 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
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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.
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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
themselves to a bunker beneath the after the war. But this is uncertain.
Kimberly is a Ph.D candidate in
city. Hitler married Eva Braun in a Other reports suggest that Adolf
Anthropology at the University of
small civil ceremony in a map room Hitler may not have shot himself
Massachusetts, Amherst. Since
within the bunker complex. Hitler dead and perhaps did not even die in
2000, Kimberly has worked in the
hosted a modest wedding breakfast his bunker. The lack of public
field of archaeology with a focus on
with his new wife, then took information concerning the
archaeobotany, the study of plant
Secretary Traudl Junge to another whereabouts of Hitler's remains
remains. She received her first
room and dictated his last will and encouraged rumors that Hitler may
Master's Degree in Anthropology
testament. He signed these have survived the end of World War
from Florida State University in
documents at 04:00 and then retired II. Records kept by the Soviet KGB
2003 were she worked on analyzing
to bed (some sources say Hitler and Russian FSB were opened in
materials from Early Archaic
dictated the last will and testament 1992 and matched the widely
underwater sites in Florida and
immediately before the wedding, but accepted version of Hitler's death,
Copper Age sites in Hungary.
all sources agree on the timing of that his death was by suicide by
Kimberly completed another
the signing). Hitler and Braun lived gunshot and cyanide poisoning.
Master's Degree program at the
together as husband and wife in the However, the Russian archives
Univ. of Sheffield focusing on
bunker for fewer than 40 hours. yielded more detailed autopsy
environmental archaeology. At
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,
Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun
she holds a dissertation research
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
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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
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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 GALLOWS HILL
and adapted along with changing
Ridge, and how analysis of environmental, technological and
archaeological data from this The fall semester at the Gallows Hill
demographic circumstances. The
environment could contribute to site started with a bang on opening
evolution of technology, social
general and specific knowledge day with the recovery of both
forms, and subsistence strategies in
concerning the prehistoric hunter- historic and prehistoric artifacts
small-scale hunter-gatherer societies
gatherers who once occupied this from the new block excavation
is no less a part of overall human
part of the state. The research was outside the late 18th century
cultural evolution than any of the
able to demonstrate a positive building. As an enthusiastic
punctuated forms of human progress
correlation between the usage of Introduction to Archaeology class
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 result of weathering forces such as
of discrete residential units 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
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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 Ezra Schofield
by historic carpenter Brett Brierley
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
Scouts to excavate a number of Tuesdays through Fridays. House
Barn Project
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
In 2005, members of the NCC Ethnobotanical Tour of UConn’s
Native Americans in prehistoric
Archaeology Club were asked by Greenhouses
times.
Ms. Judy Groppa, Executive Dr. Gregory Anderson, Professor
Director of the Darien Historical Emeritus, EEB, UConn
The Scofield barn was also
Society, to conduct archaeological Saturday, February 6, 10 am to 12
investigated to determine its age.
investigations at the Bates-Scofield noon
James Sexton, architectural
site, where an early 19th century UConn Storrs location (map will be
historian, estimated that it was built
barn was to be removed and the land sent to participants)
between 1820 and 1830 based on its
developed. Advance registration required: $20
method of framing. Professor
($15 for Museum members)
William Wright and Ms. Ashley
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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.
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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
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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 martha.risser@trincoll.edu
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 lisa.brody@yale.edu
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
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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 IAIS@CHARTER.NET
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
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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
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the retired President of the Greater New Haven Archaeological Society and has directed numerous archaeological excavations in
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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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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: steve_de_vore@nps.gov.
National Park Service’s 2010 Archaeological
Prospection Workshop
The National Park Service’s 2010 workshop on archaeological prospection
techniques entitled Current Archaeological Prospection Advances for Non-
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