To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we’re posting some of the experiential essays written by our students. These essays were part of their end-of-semester final reports. In addition to reporting the semester’s finds, analysis, and recommendations, for future work, students were asked to end with a 1-pg essay on what the class … Continue reading Student Experience: Jessica Cieslewicz…
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Student Experience: Arthur Murphy
To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we’re posting some of the experiential essays written by our students. These essays were part of their end-of-semester final reports. In addition to reporting the semester’s finds, analysis, and recommendations, for future work, students were asked to end with a 1-pg essay on what the class … Continue reading Student Experience: Arthur Murphy…
Spring 2015 Wk 9: Making Progress on Site 4
Finally this week we had everyone in the field. This was great because it meant there were enough of us to break into three shovel test crews. Each crew took a line and we progressed into the woods of site 4. Site 4 was recommended for further testing by Richard Grubb & Associates, the CRM … Continue reading Spring 2015 Wk 9: Making Progress on Site 4…
Spring 2015 Spring Break – Into the Woods
While other Rutgers-Camden students enjoyed Spring Break somewhere on a sunny beach, the students of Whispering Woods were hard at work. Even though participation was purely optional, several of our students put in a full week of digging to help us catch up on our Phase II shovel tests. This week we ventured fully into … Continue reading Spring 2015 Spring Break – Into the Woods…
Spring 2015 Wk 8: Finally in the Field
Finally after seven weeks of sub-zero temperatures, the Whispering Woods team has returned to the field. It was a balmy 50 degrees F and a beautiful day to do some archaeology! Oh, how great it was to be back! The class all arrived on time. Twelve cars parked in a soy field. We started with … Continue reading Spring 2015 Wk 8: Finally in the Field…
Spring 2015 Wk 6: Let them eat cake!
The aim of this week’s class was to introduce the students to context, stratigraphy, and all the field paperwork required to document it. In archaeology, we use a concept known as the Harris Matrix to describe depositional history. Within the Harris Matrix, each action is represented by a context. A positive context is when something … Continue reading Spring 2015 Wk 6: Let them eat cake!…