Rebekah Bailey (right), junior from Cheasapeake and Kaylee Evans, a senior from Virginia Beach, use sifters to search for artifacts. Items are then identified, tagged, and cataloged by other students.

CAN YOU DIG IT?

13 June 2001

The Longwood Archaeology Field School, under the direction of Brian Bates, recently received a five-year $100,000 extension to its ongoing investigation of a Late-Woodland Amerindian site in Charlotte County. The site, located at Staunton River Battlefield State Park near Clover, has been studied by Bates and Longwood students since being discovered in 1997.

The investigation, funded by a grant from the Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, is a joint effort by Longwood College, the Division of State Parks, and the Archeological Society of Virginia, has yielded information on daily life along the banks of the Staunton River from 1000 A.D. to 1450 A.D.

The site is used by the Archaeology Field Schoool every summer, and members
of the Archeological Society of Virginia have volunteered on the project. Located across the river from the Staunton River Battlefield State Park, site of an 1864 Civil War battle, the site provides an outdoor, hands-on research laboratory for Longwood students. Eighteen students were enrolled this summer in the 4-week "Field Methods in Archaeology course."

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