Spiro Landscape Archaeological Project

Analysis is finished for the summer. The lab is neat and tidy and ready for our next round of students in the fall

Ready to go at SAA in San Francisco!

It’s all fun and games until someone has to sort and measure flakes 😂

Forgot to post this earlier, but we enjoyed presenting on our work at the joint Caddo Conference Organization and Louisiana Archaeological Society meeting in Natchitoches, LA this past weekend

We haven’t posted anything in a while but we are still busy. Our lab students are on spring break this week and that gives us a chance to catch up on data entry

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What is life but a flotation sample? @uofoklahoma archeology students Madison Chaffin and Shayna Flaming show us part of the post-excavation process for Spiro Mounds artifacts ✨

Today was the last day of lab work for the fall semester. Our students have analyzed, among other things, almost 800 ceramic sherds, 5500 pieces of daub, 3600 pieces of fire-cracked rock, 300 ground stone tool fragments, and a whopping 16,160 pieces of lithic debitage (the byproducts of stone tool making). That makes up something between 1/3 and 1/2 of what we excavated last summer. Thanks for your hard work, everyone! We’ll be back at it in January when the next semester starts.

Just a few more days to go until our Archaeology Day event this Saturday! We are keeping an eye on the weather forecast, but it shouldn't have any effect on activities for the day as this is an indoor event.

Here’s a nice Crockett Curvilinear Incised sherd to send us into the weekend!

It’s all fun and games until someone has to do lithic debitage data entry 😂