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Coffinberry Chapter
Officers:
President: Ken Price Vice President: George Davis Secretary: Janet Brashler Treasurer: Janet Brashler
Meetings:
7:00 PM on the third Friday
of every month from September - May
249 Lake Michigan Hall, Anthropology Lab
Allendale, MI 49404 Visitors are welcome.
See link below for a map of campus (Lake Michigan hall is number 35 on the map, location F6) http://www.gvsu.edu/homepage/files/pdf/maps/allendale.pdf
Meeting Topics:
February
17, 2012: "Turkeys,
Toads, Points, and Pits: Some Initial Impressions from Excavations at
20OT283, Ottawa County, Michigan", presented by Dr. Michael
Hambacher, Senior Archaeologist for Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group,
Inc., Jackson, MI. Site 20OT283 is an expansive Late
Woodland occupation extending across two Holocene terraces associated with
the lower Grand River valley in western Michigan. Extensive
excavations, conducted in 2011 for the Michigan Department of Transportation,
indicates that the occupation primarily dates to the post-AD 1000/1100
period, although minor earlier Archaic and Woodland components are also
represented. Differential use of space at the site also was
documented. The site contains a series of short-term hunting and other
resource acquisition and processing occupations, along with a large number of
deep processing and cache pit features. The excavations provide an
insight into a poorly documented period in the region and an important
previously unexplored aspect of the regional settlement system. March 16, 2012: “Pioneer farmers of Pleasant Valley: Results of excavations at the historic Warner Site, 20LV334”. Tim Bennett will present on the results of archaeological research over the past five field seasons at the Warner farmstead located in Brighton, MI. The Warner's were pioneers from western New York arriving during the heyday of the Michigan land rush in 1836. Nine generations of the family have lived in the township for the past 175 years and have been involved in the community from its earliest days, including giving its name. Descendants still reside in the 1855 Greek Revival home, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Interesting results from a variety of analytical techniques including soil chemical analysis, energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, magnetometry, dendrochronology, and mass spectrometry will be discussed as well as exciting archaeological finds made on the township's only certified sesquicentennial farm. Tim currently serves as president of the Saginaw Valley Chapter of the Michigan Archaeological Society and has worked on a number of prehistoric and historic archaeological projects in the Midwest for nearly twenty years. A number of displays will be brought for viewing and discussion.
Contact Info:
Ken Price muskegonriverresearch@yahoo.com,
www.muskegonmuseum.org or
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