The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

10/09/2026

Thank you Register of Professional Archaeologists! We appreciate the support you provide to field school students. Great job Kate!

10/08/2026

See everyone in a few weeks!

10/03/2026

The cultural resources community is a small one. We are colleagues, collaborators, former coworkers, mentors, friends, and sometimes competitors—but above all, we are people who care deeply about this profession and the work we do.

We know that many talented professionals in our industry are facing unexpected uncertainty right now. To those affected: Gray & Pape is thinking of you. Some of you will need time to process this change in your life, others will be looking for jobs immediately, we understand.

If you find yourself looking for your next opportunity, needing a connection, or simply wanting to talk with someone in the industry, we encourage you to reach out. Members of our team are happy to have conversations, make introductions where we can, and explore whether there may be opportunities to work together. We have many partners across the industry that we would be happy to introduce you to as appropriate.

Even if you don’t see a current Gray & Pape opening that fits your background, we’d still like to hear from you. Please feel free to send your resume to [email protected] so we can start a conversation and keep you in mind as opportunities develop. We have immediate openings in our seasonal employee pool and we would be happy to add you to the pool right now. To join that pool, follow this link: https://www.graypape.com/careers/

We also recognize that clients may be facing uncertainty of their own—projects still need to move forward, commitments still need to be met, and continuity matters. If your organization needs additional cultural resources capacity or support, Gray & Pape is prepared to work collaboratively to help keep important work moving.

Moments like this are a reminder that the strength of cultural resources management has always been its people. We believe in supporting one another, sharing expertise, and finding ways forward together.

If we can help—whether you are a cultural resources professional or a client—please reach out. Our doors are open.

09/24/2026

Join our friends at the Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum this weekend for a fun event! Members of the Project will be on site too.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2026

09/16/2026

Fall semester is off to a great start! Today, we floated samples collected during the summer season and continued inventorying artifacts we recovered. These artifacts include a purple glass faceted bead and various tiny seed beads.

08/11/2026

This past weekend many of our current and former field school students had the pleasure of taking a day trip to Colonial Michillimackinac, where we got to explore the historical reconstructions, and talk with the site’s own team of archaeologists. We had lots of fun learning more about this other very important stop in the Great Lakes network, and comparing their collection with the sorts of artifacts found at FSJ!

08/07/2026

And that’s a wrap! After backfilling excavation units on Tuesday our team spent the rest of the week digitizing paperwork, sorting artifacts and packing up the field house. This season truly was amazing, but now it’s time to return to the lab to begin analyzing and interpreting everything we found!

Protecting the bisections so we can reopen some of the trench units again next year!

Some fun with photography before laying down the tarps 😉

Typing out all the notes we’ve taken over the past five weeks 📝

Cleaning, sorting and bagging the remaining artifacts

Our site director’s car packed to the brim with soil samples, artifacts and field equipment!

08/06/2026

our team having a little too much fun in the units before we had to backfill 😆

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08/06/2026

Join us tonight Thursday, August 6 for a Give Back event at Hacienda on Portage Road. All of the funds will stay in Niles to support archaeology at Fort St. Joseph.