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Field Opportunities Part of our Field Opportunities encompasses field school for undergraduates who are majoring in Archeology and/or Anthropology. FIELD SCHOOL 2001 The Sycamore Rockshelter site was dug in the summer of 2001. It is in the floodplain of Rock Run Creek and the Wabash Lowland. The site runs along roughly a 10 meter-high Mississippian sandstone wall that defines the northern margin of an approximately 200 meter-wide gorge. There are 2 potential deposits here; one is palentological which may contain remains of pre-Wisconsin Age mega fauna, the other is archaeological which is possibly buried by the collapsing of the rockshelter brow.
The Sycamore Rockshelter site.
Field School crew working at the Sycamore Rockshelter site.
FIELD SCHOOL 2003 & 2004 The Flora Mastodon site was dug in the summers of 2003 and 2004. It is a Tipton Till Plain physiographic zone on what looks to be a lake in early prehistoric times. Later it was a marsh or swamp in late prehistoric/early historic times. The lake feature was drained by the construction of drainage ditches and dredging of nearby streams. Archaic, Woodland, and Historic artifacts have been found by local landowners and the University. The field schools have recovered mastodon ribs, vertebrates, ulna, and a femur. A local landowner's family found the Mastodon's mandible in 1971.
The Flora Mastodon Site. Begining of field school 2003.
2003 Field School at the Flora Mastodon site. University crew pictured here at the wet screens.
Mastodon ulna bone.
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