Designed and implemented by the team of Dr. David Bulter,principle archaelogist and Jessica Butler, field supervisor, eleven high school students from Walker Memorial Academy participated in a five day field school located at the Blueberry Site.

Monday, the first day, was spent at KVAHC lab with Jessica Butler teaching the students an important part of an archaeology dig - paper work.  The unit level record form and the feature form are the two papers that are critical in keeping accurate records of a dig. The proper protocol of labeling the bags was also instructed by Jessica and practiced by the students.

Jessica designed a 2 x 2 meter practice unit so the students could learn and pracitice the protocols of mapping features and significant artifacts.

Tuesday thru Friday the students particpated in an archaeology dig at the Blueberry Site.  They began the excavation in TU6, a 2 x 2 meter block unit. Jessica made two teams from the eleven students and one teacher.  They were 6 boys in one team and 5 girls and one teacher in the other.  Jessica then divided the teams into groups of 2.  Each group rotating throughout the day being responsible for either excavating, paperwork and labeling bags, or screening.

The excavation went down 5 cm. increments in either one of the 4 quadrants.  They took soil samples, determined the Munsell, used 1/8 screen size, a line level, and used a trowel.

No features were indentified due to the fact that the excavation was in a very dark midden.  But plenty of artifacts were found.  Two were mapped, a rather large rim sherd and a sharks tooth.

Artifact types were pottery sherds, shells, pebbles, bone pin fragments, bones, seeds, pottery rims, flakes, ochre, and many small pieces that were saved for later lab work.

This field school ended with each student and the teacher receiving a certificate of completion from archaeologist Dr. David Butler and Field Supervisor Jessica Butler.  Walker Memorial Academy and its students wish to thank David and Jessica for the hard work and dedication in creating and managing the field school and Anne Reynolds, property owner, for putting on a quality and professional archaeology field school...

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