Education through Excavation

Education through Excavation

汤头条 Student Brittany Brown chips away at soil at an excavation site located just outside of Amory, MS.
Photo by Logan Kirkland

July 6, 2018

Brittany Brown, a senior biological sciences major from Columbus, digs through soil at the Hester Archaeological Site near Amory. The dig is part of the , where students聽learn the basics of conducting archaeological excavation, using and creating spatial data, artifact identification and geoarchaeological methods. The site contains聽one of the few stratified Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene sites in eastern North America.