The Morton Village Fieldschool is current accepting applications – with a deadline of April 27th, 2012

The MortonVillage Fieldschool focuses on the Morton Village Site, a late prehistoric village in the central Illinois River Valley near Lewistown, Illinois. This cooperative project with the Illinois State Museum focuses on the A.D. 1300-1400 community associated with a period of social integration and conflict among Oneota and Mississippian groups. Our work builds on prior research at the site, utilize state-of the-art geophysical techniques, and have a strong public outreach component. Students are exposed to survey work as well as excavation.

As in any archaeological field school, students learn through hands-on application of methods. Students are contributing members of the research team, and work closely with the instructor, teaching assistants, and other professional archaeologists and specialists. We are fortunate to have the Dickson Mounds Museum of the Illinois State Museum as partners in this research endeavor. We utilize the museum as a place to learn about the rich archaeological record of the region, and draw on the considerable expertise of the archaeologists at that institution. Our field lab is also housed at the museum.

For more information please go here. The fieldschool application form can be downloaded here (PDF)

The GSA is looking for awesome, unusual, and/or beautiful treasures to feature in this year’s Silent Auction.  If you would like to donate a treasure, please bring the item to 412 Baker Hall anytime between 9-5pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays or contact Sylvia (deskajsy@msu.edu) to make other arrangements.  We need your donations  to make this auction successful.

We are accepting donations until Thursday, March 1st, 2012.

Please be sure to label your donated item with the following pieces of information:

1) What is it?
2) Where is it from?
3) A suggested opening bid price

For those who are new to the department: donated items will be on display for approximately two weeks.  During this time, people will come, look, and “bid” by writing on the bid sheet attached to each individual item.  At the end of the two-week period, the highest bidder will have won the item for the price they indicated.

Thanks,
GSA

One of six Governor’s Awards for Historic Presevation was presented to MSU for the Saints’ Rest Archaeological Project on May 18, 2006.

Andrea Louie’s book Chineseness Across Borders: Renegotiating Chinese Identities in China and the United States (Duke University Press, 2004) received the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in the category of Social Sciences for titles published in 2004.

Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture , edited by Jacqueline Royster and Ann Marie Simpkins, received the 2006 College English Association of Ohio Nancy Dasher Award. Susan Krouse, faculty member in Anthropology, has a chapter in this volume, titled: “Transforming Images: The Scholarship of American Indian Women.”

Robert A. Birmingham and Lynne Goldstein, Aztalan: Mysteries of an Ancient Indian Town, won The Midwest Independent Publishers Association Merit Award for the History category, 2006.

Elizabeth Drexler’s Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) has won an award by Association of Third World Studies (ATWS) Cecil B. Currey Book-Length Publications Award for 2007-2008.

Edited by Russell K. Skowronek and Kenneth E. Lewis
(University Press of Florida)

Overview:

“For the first time we have a volume that shows us the story of archaeology at some of our most significant and cherished institutions, America’s colleges and universities.”–Richard C. Waldbauer, National Park Service

“The chapters in this volume demonstrate the integration of teaching, learning, research, and service in the efforts to preserve and interpret heritage for the benefit of all those who identify with the academy.”–Michael S. Nassaney, Western Michigan University

As a discipline, archaeology often provides amazing insights into the past. But it can also illuminate the present, especially when investigations are undertaken to better examine the history of institutions such as colleges and universities.

In Beneath the Ivory Tower, contributors offer a series of case studies to reveal the ways archaeology can offer a more objective view of changes and transformations that have taken place on America’s college campuses. From the tennis courts of William and Mary to the “iconic paths, lawns, and well-ordered brick buildings” of Harvard, this volume will change the ways readers look at their alma maters–and at archaeology. Also included are studies of Michigan State, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Massachusetts, Illinois, North Carolina, Washington & Lee, Santa Clara, California, and Stanford.

Russell K. Skowronek (Ph.D. MSU Anthropology 1989), professor of history and anthropology at the University of Texas-Pan American, is coeditor of X Marks the Spot and coauthor of HMS Fowey Lost and Found. Kenneth E. Lewis, professor of anthropology at Michigan State University, is author of West to Far Michigan: Settling the Lower Peninsula, 1815–1860 and Camden: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Backcountry.

Details: 352 pages 6 x 9
Cloth: $59.95
ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3422-5
ISBN 10: 0-8130-3422-1
Pubdate: 3/21/2010

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