Boston University THE CENTER FOR A RCHAEOLOG ICAL ST UD IES

October, 1981 Volume 1, No.1 Boston, Mass.

Announcing : THE CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Boston University established the Center for Archaeological Studies in November, 1980. The Center has as its principal aims the development and coordination of interdisciplinary archaeological programs in education and research on local, national, and international levels. The Center intends to increase national and international awareness of the importance of understanding other cultures, and of preserving the world's cultural heritage, by involving professional archaeologists, scholars in other fields, and the general public in the activities of the Center.

One of the major components of the Center is the Archaeological Studies Program, which offers academic programs leading to the B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. This highly interdisciplinary program has already attracted students from many parts of the United States and from abroad. The high quality of the Program was recognized nationally by the award in 1980-81 of a $50,000 Pilot Grant by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Another major component of the Center is the Office of Public Archaeology, which opened in June, 1981. Activities of the Office, in addition to cultural resource management and environmental impact studies, include special seminars, lecture series, archaeological trips, and other programs for non-professionals.

The Center has extensive facilities important for archaeological studies, including teaching and research laboratories, a drafting room, an archaeological library, a slide library, computers, and a budding reference collection of artifacts and specimens. Faculty and staff of the Center are currently involved in research in Boston; Fort Christanna, Virginia; Te mple, New Hampsh i r e; Belize; Botswana; Egypt; Israel; Greece ; Italy; and Yugoslavia.

The Center also publishes a Ne wsl e tte r six times each year, and is planning other archaeological publications that will be of interest both to professionals and to lay persons.

Membership in the Center is open to the public; see the back page for details.

PU BLIC ARCHAEOLOGY AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY

"Too few people are awa re of the rich archaeological heritage of New England, or of the fac t t ha t so much of it is being destroyed" s ays Clark Sykes, the new Director of t he Office of Publ ic Archaeology (OPA), within the Center for Archaeological Stud i e s.

The recent l y opened OPA i s trying hard to change both situations . One of three components of the Cente r, the OPA conducts impact studies and r escue excavations at threatened s ites, and coordinates the public educa t ion programs at the Center.

Sykes ' office undertakes archaeo­log ical and historical studies t hat are r equired by law for public works proj ects. Such projects range in scal e from small improvements i n a town's water system to extremely large, long-term highway-construction programs. In all cases the goals ar e ba s ically the same: to help maintain construction schedules while at the

same time meet the need f or archaeolog ical knowledge from sites that are rapidl y van ishing because of modern deve l opment.

One o f the most i mpo rtant goals of the OPA is expand ing the public' s understanding of, and involvement with, archaeology. Th r ough the planned lectures , films, semina r s and publ ica tions, the OPA s eeks to increase civic awareness of t he rich and diverse arc haeological he ritage of New England and Nor t h Ame r ica i n general. The volunteer act ivit ies, tours, and field­school opportunities through the Center, we hope, will l ead t he public f rom a passive to an ac t ive role i n archaeology.

"There are thousands of closet archaeologists out here", Sykes a dded , "and we have an obligation to see that they have oppor tuni ­ties to make contributions."

OPA Di r c t or Clark S ykes discusses Colonial artifacts s alvage d f rom construction of the Boston Common Park ing Gar age .

2

ALL LECTURE SERIES

Me mbers and prospective members of the Cen ter ar e invited to attend a monthly lec t ure series . All lectures wi l l be at 7:30 p.m. in the Boston Uni ve r sity School of Nursing Lecture Hall (Cur t is Auditorium), 635 Commonwea l th Avenue. Each lecture will be f ol l owed by an informal question-and -ans wer period, and a receptio n f o r a guest speaker and members.

October 21 (Wednesday)

Octo be r' s spea ker will be Professor J a me s Wise man, Director of the Center for Ar chaeolog i c al Studies at Boston Uni ver s i t y, wh o will present a sl ide -i llus t r a t e d talk entitled "Stobi in Yugoslavia n Macedonia: Archaeological Resea r c h , 1 97 0 - 1 9 81". The Stobi projec t is di s cussed elsewhere in this Ne wslett e r.

Dr. Wi seman was educated at the Univers ity of Mi ssouri (B.A., 1957) and the Un i v e rsi ty of Chicago (M.A., 1960; Ph.D., 1 96 6) . Be f ore joining the fac ulty o f Boston University in 1973, Pro fes s o r Wi s eman taught at the Un ive r s i t y of Texas at Austin for 13 years. At present, he is Chairman of the De p ar tment of Classical Studies and Profe s sor of Ar c h aeology, Art History, and Classic s, as well as Director of the Cen te r. In 1 97 4, Dr. Wiseman founded the Jo ur nal o f Field Archa o .7. ogy, a leading publication in the di s cip line , of which he is editor-in-ch ie f .

The autho r of numerous articles and monographs, Dr.Wiseman is an internationally respected scholar in the fi eld of classical archaeology. He has participated in, and directed, e xcavations at Corinth and Elis, Greece, and most recently at the Roman city of Sto bi, Yugoslavia.

Nove mber 16 (Mo n. da y)

Dr. Richard S. MacNe i sh, Director of the R.S. Peabody Foundation for Archaeology in Andover, will be the guest speaker for November. His topic will be "The Origins of the Maya: Preceramic in Belize".

Dr. MacNeish, a noted scholar in New World archaeology, has carried out research in almost every area of the continent, from the northern Yukon Territory to Manitoba, New York, Mexico, and Peru. He has written many articles and books on topics as diverse as the earliest occupancy of the Americas, Iroquois Indian culture history, the origins of New World agriculture, and the r ise of civilizations. Many of these works have become classics in the field.

Dec e mber 1 6 (Wednesda y)

Dr. Clemency Cogg ins wil l speak on "Selling the Maya ". This il lustrated talk concerns the ill ici t trade in Mayan antiquities, and the l e gal, institutional, and pr ivate efforts to curb the plundering of archaeological sites.

The News lette r is published s ix times per year by the Center for Archaeological Studies. Subscriptions are t hroug h membership in the Center ( for membership information see last page of this issue). Comments on, and contributions to, the Ne ws l e tter are encouraged and should be sent to Professors Wiseman or Sykes, who served as Editors of this inaugural issue.

3

ARCHAEOLOGI CAL LABORATORIES

Bos ton Unive r s ity has recently compl e ted constr uction or remodeling of fo ur s pac i o us l a boratories. The Ar chaeo l ogica l Re search Laboratory , i n t he basement of 236 Bay State Road , is devo t ed to f ac ul t y and student re s earch. In add i t ion to a large analysis a rea wi th s t orage rooms, it ha s a wet l a bora tory section with s i nks a nd fume hood , as well as a pho t ogra ph i c s t ud io and a dark room. Ana l ysi s o f ma terials f rom prehistoric s ite s in the sout hwestern United St a t es a nd his t o r i cal sites in New Eng l and i s c ur r e nt ly underway .

The Archaeological Teaching La bor a t or y is l ocated on the 5th floor of t he Co l l ege of Liberal Arts (Room 501) . Thi s laboratory will be used for nc l e an lab " , rese arch applications as we l l a s f o r t eac hi ng. It is provided wi t h we t l aboratory f ac i l it i es, i ncl ud i ng a fume hood and

Dr. Beaudr y and stud nt Don Jones ana l y z e soils in the new l aboratory.

4

equi pme nt for the conservation of a rchaeolog ical a nd ethnographic ma t e rials . An e xpansion of equipment ho l di ngs i s well underway. Separate pa lynological r esearch and soils a na lysis laboratories adjoin the Ar chaeo l og ical Teaching Laboratory. The po l l en lab was made possible by a Nat ional Sc ience Foundation grant. The fi r st cla sses in the new facility are be i ng taught this fall. The lab a lso i s being used in the analysis and cons e r vation o f materials from Egypt, J ordan , Pak i sta n, New England, and the weste rn Un i ted States.

FALL SEMI NARS

Two se mi nars wi ll be conducted this fal l for members o f the Center for Archa e l ogi cal St udies. Each seminar wi ll cons i s t of s i x sessions, mos t of t hem i n the evening (with occas iona l Saturday meetings), during two or t hr ee consecutive weeks in Room 501, Coll ege o f Liberal Arts, 735 Commonwealth Avenue .

Upon compl e t i on of the seminar cyc le , par t i c i pants will receive a "Certi f i ca t e of Tr a i ning".

Semi n ar fees al so cover member­ship in t h e Ce nter for one year.

October Seminar

"The Archaeology of Life in COlonia l New Engla nd "

The cour se pr esents the archaeo l og ica l evidence for life in ear ly New Engl and, from the earliest settl eme nt s t o the post-industrial era . Top i cs include early arch itec t ure , f ood, rural and urban set tlements, t he deve l opment of indus t r y, and t he a rti f ac t s of early

New England. At least one field trip to a New England historic site will be made .

Dates: October 22 - November 4 First session : October 22 7: 30 - 9 : 00 p . m. Fee: $150 I ns tructor : Dr. Ma ry C. Beaudry

November Semina r

"Graphi c s For Archaeologists"

Dr awing and reproduction techn' que s f o r t he recording and publ i s hing of a rchaeological mater ial. Small artifacts (ceramics, me tal , g l as s , etc. ) as well as a rchitec tural recording wi ll be cove red.

Da t es: Novembe r 7-21 Fi rs t meeting : Nov. 7 7 :30-9: 00 p .m. Fee: $15 0 p l us materials Instructor: Mr . Frederick Hemans

FIELD SCHOOLS AND SUMME R PROGRAMS

Ma rea , Egypt

The Ar chaeo logical Studies Program ca r r ied o ut a th ird season of excavat ion a nd field training at Roman and Byzat ine Mar e a, near Alexandria, Egypt, f rom July 23 to August 22, 1981 . Twenty-nine student s , including 11 fr om Bos t on Uni ve rsity, par t icipated in the session. The student s ear ned eight credits through t he field cour se, wh ich was sponsored by Bos t on Unive rs i ty Summer Term. The s ess i on was d irec ted by Professor Creighton Gabel , a ssisted by Professor Kar l Petr uso . Fa c ul t y members from othe r i ns t itut ions included Professor Fawzi el Fa kha ran i of Alexandria Uni versity and Pro fessor Thomas Boyd of the Un i vers ity of Texas at Austin.

Plaster- line d basins of a Byz an t i n e wi ne press . No t e li on 'S h e ad s pou t .

Ma rea, inte rnationall y renowned in antiqui ty for its wines, is located on the southern shore of a large l a ke , some 45 km . s outhwes t o f Ale xandria in the Weste rn Des e rt . The finger of t he lake on which t he s ite wa s e s t a blished is today l argely des s ica tedi hence t he har bo r f aci l it i es , inc luding thr e e substan t ial j e tt i e s , a bu i l t d i ke , and a boatya r d , ar e wel l p rese r ve d and completely v isible. For the past two seasons the Boston Univer s i t y teams have concentra t e d on t he rema i ns in the weste r nmost of t he three large ports da t i ng t o t he 5th - 7th centur ie s A. C. Work in 1981 focu s ed o n a mass ive bu ilding, pe r ha ps a s hop arcade , which occupied a prominent pos i t ion on t he l ake f ront o f t he West Por t , a nd on a small apsidal bui ldi ng , probably an early Christian church wh ich s aw some remode l ing in the Islamic pe r iod.

In add ition, reconnai s sance at some dis tance f rom t he harbor p roduced Gr eek pott ery of the Classical per i od (4th - 5th cen t uries B.C. ) as we l l as r emains o f a recta ngul ar lime stone wha r f and a p latf orm of unknown f unction, which might be cont emporary with r ock-c ut tombs of the New Ki ngdom (lat e 2nd millennium B. C.) on a ridge to the s outh of t he lakeshore . Sys t emat ic rec overy o f f lora l a nd f aunal remains, both ancient and mode r n, will allow us to make a contribut i on toward the his t ory o f

5

land use in this poorly-known part of Lower Egypt.

To complement the rather arduous schedule of fieldwork, students wer e given an intensive introduction to Alexandrian civilization, which included classroom lectures and trips to nearby archaeological sites. At the end of the field session, two days were spent in Cairo, where students visited Giza, Saqqara, the Egyptian Museum, and other sites of interest, both ancient and modern.

The faculty wish to thank all participants of the 1981 session for their enthusiastic contributions to a most successful season of excavation.

Tel Dor, Israel

Students from Boston University participated this summer (July 1 ­August 19) in the excavation and field school at Tel Dor, Israel,under the supervision of Professor James Purvis of the Department of Religion. It was the second season of excavation at Tel Dor and the second year of participation by Boston University. The excavation is sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem--Professor Ephraim Stern, Director. Other institutions participating in the field school are Sacramento State College and New York University.

Last year an impressive wall and

Excava t ion o f s t orage j ars a t Tel Do r , Is rael (Pho t o co urtes y of J . Purvi i ).

city gate system of the Byzantine, Roman, and Helleni st i c periods was uncovered in the area i n wh ich the Boston Un i ve rsity students were wor k i ng. Wo r k thi s year e xpanded the fie l d of the prev i o us year, clarifying the p r e v i o us e xc a vatio n and c hecking str a t ig rap hy , and a l s o r e ading Persian/Phoe n ici an and Iron Age (i . e., Israe l ite ) leve l s .

" The wo r k wa s bot h in te r e s t i ng and exc i t ing ,· sa i d Pu rv is, " i n s p ite of our f r ustr a t ion s i n be ing una ble to locate a r c h itectural r emains of the I r o n Age c i t y be ne ath or ne a r t he city walls o f t h e l a ter pe r i o ds . "

Tho s e wi shing t o learn mor e about the 1 981 s e a son and t he pla ns f o r 1982 may con s ul t Pr o f e s sor Purvis.

Summer Progr am in Gr e ece

Th ir ty s tudents t o o k par t in the Summer Prog ram in Gr e e c e , wh ich wa s sponsor e d by the Departme n t o f Classica l Studies and d i r e c ted by James R. Wi sema n, Direc t o r o f the Cen t e r . Other f acu lty wer e Co l i n N. Edmons o n , Me l lon Profes s or o f Class i c a l S tud ie s at t h e Ame r ican School of Classica l S t ud i es at Athens, and Timothy E . Gr e gory, Pro f esso r of Histo r y a t Ohio Sta t e Unive rs i ty .

The Progr am was comp l etely re v ised for 1981 i n order to i ns ure that students wou l d be able t o study Greek civi l iza t i o n f r om ear l iest times to the presen t, and to make poss i b le a close r , direct acq ua i n t anc e with many parts o f Gr eec e . Both s tude nts a nd faculty c o n s ide red t he restructured program h i gh l y s ucc essful.

In t he ne w f o r mat, all students enro l l e d in CL 504 By z an t i ne a nd Modern Gree k Cult u r e . For the i r second c o ur s e , stud ents selected either AH 233(o r AH 7 33 ) Art a nd Architectu r e o f Ancient Greece, or CL 303 (or CL 7 03) Cla ss i cal Civili za t i on: Gree c e . Each of the faculty contributed to all cour s es, but ha d pr i mary respo nsi b i l i t y for one.

Classe s were he ld pr i nc i p a lly at site s and in museums t hroughout

6

Gr eece. The Program wa s based for the fir s t two weeks a t Na f p l ion, fr om wh ich t he group vi s ited Mycenae , Argos , Ti ryns, Lerna , Co r i n t h, Ep i da urus , and numerous o t he r s ites . The third wee k was spent "on the road", with visi s t o such i mpo r t a n t place s a s Olympia (the s ite o f t he anc ient Olympic Game s) , De l ph i , Mist ra (a we l l -preserved Medieval t own), and

Me teora , where Byzantine mona s t e r i e s a r e dramatical ly s ituat ed a top high , s hee r cl ' ffs . I n the four th wee k the Progr am was based at Thessa l on i ki , with vi s its to Phi l ippi, Kava la , Pe lla, and Vergina (among other pl aces). The group spent t he f i nal wee k in Athens, studying a t the muse ums, on the Acropoli s , and i n ot he r pa rts of the city.

Some of the highligh t s incl uded see ing a performance of Sophocles ' Oedi pus Rex in the ancient t heat er at Ep i daurus, and a pre-opening visit to t he new exh ib it room of the scul pt ur es of the Temp le of Zeus at Olymp i a.

Profes s o r Edmonson and Bos ton Uni ve r sity stude n t s at Epi da urus , Greece .

RESEARCIl ACTI VIT I ES, SU tliMER, 1 98 1

EXCAVATIONS AT FORT CHRISTANNA

Bui lt in 1 714 by Governor Alexa nde r Spotswood, Fo r t Chr i sta nna, i n Br unswick Co nty, Virg in i a, wa s

used as a military post and trading center by the Virginia Indian Company, which at Spotswood's insistence operated an Indian school within the walls of the fort. The Company maintained the fort until 1722, after which Indians from the nearby Saponi reservation moved into the fort compound and inhabited its derelict building.

The third season of fieldwork at Christanna was completed in summer, 1981. The work has been funded by the Brunswick County Historical Society, Inc., and the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia; Professor Mary Beaudry of Boston University's Archaeological Studies Program is Project Director, and Donald Jones, a graduate student in the Program, was a crew chief for the excavation.

The entire perimeter of the fort has been determined through test excavations, and area excavations have concentrated on the bastions that projected from the corners of the fort. Christanna was almost perfectly pentagonal in shape, consisting of palisade walls 100 yards on a side. The bastions were timber structures described by contemporary observers as "large pentagonal log houses". Artifacts from the excavations include many military items such as gun parts, leadshot, ramrod fragments, gunflints, and sword parts. Many trade good items and domestic objects also have been found. Analysis of the material recovered at the site will be carried out at the Boston University Center for Archaeological Studies over the winter of 1981-82.

A well-attended speakers' forum titled "Fort Christanna Restored: Historical and Archaeological Approaches to Cultural Resources in Virginia" was held in conjunction with this year's excavations. The series, funded by a grant from the Virginia Foundation for Humanities and Public Policy, consisted of three sets of lectures on topics related to archaeology and cultural resource management in Virginia. Part I

7

featu r ed Dr. James Deetz, Director of labor in 18th cen t ur y f ac t o r i e s. The the Lowi e Museum of Anthropology at the Un i ve rsity of California at Be r ke ley , and Thomas Young, Director of Fl owe rd ew Hu nd red Plantation, who spoke on "Ar chaeology and the Outdoor His tory Mu s e um". Part II, hpr e serv ing Virgin ia' s Bur i ed Cultural He r i t age " fe atured Alain Outlaw, Comm i s s ioner , and Ma rtha McCartney , Hi stor i an, both of the Vi r g in i a Re se a r ch Ce nter for Ar chaeology; a nd in Part III, Gay Weeks Nea l e , Vi c e -P r e side nt o f the Br un swi c k County His t oric a l Society , and Mar y Beaudry , Director of the For t Chri s t a nna Pro j ect , spoke on "Fort Christanna: Pas t, Pr esent, and Futur e ". The for um wa s in tended to expand publ i c awa r eness of histor i cal a nd archaeolog i cal resea rch at Fort Chri s tanna , and to de velop a g r eater apprec i ation of archaeo logy in gener a l . The ser ies was capped off by a n open house at t he s ite at tended by ove r 200 pe r sons.

ARCHAEOLOGY AT NEW HAMPSHIRE GLASSWORKS

During t he s ummer, 1981, Professor Fr ed Gorman completed the laboratory ana l ysis of a r t i fac ts rec ove r ed f rom Boston Univer s i ty ' s exc a va t i ons at the late eig hteen th century glass factory near Temp le , New Hampshire. The pr o j ect was ini t ia t ed in 1975 wi th funds f rom t he Nat i onal Park Se r vice , and support f rom the Temple Histo r ical Soc ie t y, which owns the prope rty upon whi ch t he si te is located. Excava­tions at the Temple Glassworks we re directe d by Professors Gorman and Wi seman, and other members of the Arc haeolog i c a l St ud ies Program.

The p r o j ect was designed to answer certa i n bas i c questions about early Ame rican industry. Traditionally, i ndustr i a l a r c haeolog ists have studied early Ame ri c an manufacturing la rgely in terms of their architectural and enginee r i ng r eco rd s . Much less is known a bout t he quality of life or

e xcava t ions a t Temp l e ha v he lped to correct th i s bias .

Archaeological eva l ua t ion of t he qual i t y of labo r at the New Engla nd Glasswor ks involves several d i ffe r ent l i nes of re s ear ch. Fo r example , quality cont ro l i n t he ma nufac t r ing p roce ss i s be ing i nvest i ga t ed by phys i o- c hem ica l analys i s of gla ss fragments that were recovered fr om waste heaps . Also, techn i c al competence in me l ting, bl owing, a nd s haping p roduc t s wi ll be s tudied by not ing manufactu r i ng error s in g lass f r agments. In addition , was t ed by-products of g l a ss manufacture are be ing exami ned to eval ua t e the eff i ciency of resource us e.

Many 18 th centur y Ame r ican glassmen we r e specia l is ts who r ece ived high wages fo r their labor . This circums tance implies t hat t hey e n joyed a relat i vely h i gh s tandard of l iving. Their highe r s t a t us s hould be obser vable in t he archaeolog i cal reco r d by grea t e r qua l i t y and quan t ities o f materia l goods than is associated with t he a ve r age ea r l y Ame ric a n workman.

The f acto ry complex at Temple i nc l uded building s t hat we r e us ed to make glass, and outlying houses fo r wor kers . Ove r 200 , 000 i ndustr 'al and dome s tic a rt i f acts wer e recovered i n e xcava t ions a t t he si te by the team from Bos ton Univers ity .

The pr o ject i s expec ted to make a major contr i but ion to our under­s t and ing of ea r ly Ame r ican indus try .

RESEARCH IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Dr. Edw i n Wi lmsen served most of the s ummer as a cons ul tant t o t he Government of Bots wa na , f or which he is prepar ing a posit ion paper to be used i n pla nni ng r ur a l deve lopment. Si nce re t urning t o Boston in J uly, he has been wr iting t h e paper whi le, at t he same t i me, r ev i e wi ng a l arge body of h i s tor i cal and soc ial l i ter a t ure on southern Af r ica.

8

Dr. Wilmsen reports that three other projects are at various stages of co~pletion. First, a comparative paper on mitachondrial DNA patterns of Bushman is to be published this fall by Wilmsen and Luca Cavali-Sforza. Second, plans have been laid to complete a neutron-activation analysis with Dr. Barbara Luedtke, an archaeologist at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. This project will involve graduate students in archaeology and result in a major monograph. Third, Dr. Alice Hausman, who recently received a Ph.D. from S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, has joined Dr. Wilmsen for the year to wo rk on the development of a grant proposal to study the Iron Age of Botswana. Dr. Wilmsen also presented seminars during the summer at Stanford, Cambridge, and the Max Planck Institute.

Stobi, Yugoslavia

Frederick P . Hemans, Teaching Fellow (1981- 1982 ) in Boston University's Archaeologic a l Studies Program, served as Deputy Amer ican Director d uring the s ummer of 1981, the 12th season of the j o i nt American-Yugos lav archa eolog ical project at Stob i i n Yugos lavian Macedonia. Funds we re provided by the Foreign Currency Prog ram of the Smithsonian Institut i on, the Republ ic of Macedonia, and by a cont inuing grant from the Na tional Endowment for the Humanities.

The p r i ncipal act i v ity of the project at pre sent is t he preparation of a series of seven volumes dealing with the results o f t he excavations, analysis, and study over the 12 years of investigation a t Stobi. The volumes are to be p ubl i shed by Princeton Univers ity Press. Only a few American staf f wer e at Stobi during the summer, a nd they devoted their efforts t o t he continuing study of materials and a rchives, and to writing. They were Pr ofessor s Virginia Ander son-Stojanov ic

(Wi lson Col l ege ), El izabe t h R. Gebhard (Uni versity of Illi nois a t Chicago Circ l e), Carolyn Sn i ve ly (Syracuse Un iversi t y), a nd De an tiloe (a doctoral candidate at Harva r d Uni versity ) . Professor Gebha rd was ass is t ed by her son, Paul, who is a student at Brown University.

Th e American Co- Director of the Project, Profe ssor James R. Wi s eman (Boston Univers i ty ) , was at Stobi in Aug us t to con f er wi t h s taff and wi th Yugoslavian o ff icials about fu tu r e work at Stob L

Aeri al photo graph of a pa l atial resi dence at S tobi.

Menorah graffito from stobi synagogue.

9

STUDENT NOTES

PAT CRAWFORD spent si x weeks in Egypt a t the site o f Tell Ma skhuta, where s he took pollen samples, flotation s amples, and ana lyzed macrobotanical materia l.

BILL BARNETT spent 2- 1/2 weeks processing ma t eria l s f rom va r ious sites at the Dick s on Mounds Museum for t he I l linois St ate Museum a nd one month excavating a t t he Rench Site i n Mossville, I l lino i s (a woodland/?-1issis­s i ppian site i n t he Illinois River Valley). Excava t ions we re along a h ighway right-of-way as part of a pha se I I I con tract survey.

GEORGEANNA LI TTLE spent one month at tending the Center's fi e l d school at Marea, near Aleandria, Egypt.

I RENE GOOD r eceived a st ipend from the Archaeological Stud ies Pr ogram to aid Fred Gorman in researcb on material f rom t he Temple Glas swo rk s. Irene hel ped to analyze 18t h century glass artifacts and ass i sted with photographing e xamples for a planned pub l ication on Temple .

JERRY ~~CO~mER served as Graduate Assistant for the f ie ld school in Mara, Egypt, f o r f ive weeks. His basic duties we re to supervise s tuden ts and to collect plants of the area f o r a pollen reference collection

DON J ONES a ssisted Dr. Mary Beaudry at t he Ft. Chris tanna , Vi rginia, excavat ions. The wo rk lasted six wee ks (June 1 5th t o July 24th).

ELLY ROBB I NS wor ked on a prehistoric Indian s ite in the Allagah wilderness in Maine wi t b Robson Bonnischen and a crew f r om U. Ma i ne at Orono.

wee ks in Ch ina on a tr ip wi th her husba nd.

DEBRA HUDAK s pent 2 months in Gaiole, Italy as an a r ea s upe r v isor and ceramics analys t f or t he Florida Sta te Un i versi ty arc haeologica l f ield 5 bool. The site, Ce t amur a, i s an Et r uscan town, i mportant f or its domes t ic a r ch i t e cture. She a lso tr ave l ed e x t ensively i n Northe rn Ita l y t o visi t nume r o us other Et rusca n s i t e s . Debra is the 1981-1982 Fel low of the Jo urnal of Fi e ld Ar chaeol ogy .

WELCOME TO THE NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS!

KEITH ADAMS, B.A . , Anc ient Studie s, Unive r s i t y o f Maryland at Balt imore , 1976; M.A. Geography, University of North Carolina at Chape l Hill, 1981

TAMARA BLOSSER, B.A., An t hropology, The College of Wi ll iam and Mary, 1980

LINDA BROWN, B.A. , An t hropology, Bos ton Un iver s i t y, 197 3

DEBORAH DURHAM, A.B., istory, Smith College, 1980

DOUGLAS GEORGE , B. A. , Anthropol ogy, Hamline Un i ve r sity, 1970

CONRAD GOODWI N, A.A. , Liberal Arts, San ta Barbara Ci ty College , 1968 ; B.A., Anthropology, Uni ve r s i ty of Cal i f o rn ia, Santa Ba r bara, 1971 ; l-1. A. , Anthropology , College of Wi lliam and Mary, 1981

RICHARD KANASKI , B.A., Anthropology, Memph is St ate Un iversity , 1977 ; M.A., Anthr opo l ogy, 1981

J AMES KROL IKOWSKI, B.A., History, Univers i ty of New Hampshire, 1974

ELEANOR ROBBINS, B. A., las s icalNANCY SEASHOLES spe nt six weeks in Civil ization, Boston Unive r si ty, 1980

Troy, N.Y., l earn ing field menthods and another wee k wo rking on two

J AMES WANSLEY, B. A. , Anthr opo l ogy, Thedi ff erentsi tes at Strawbe rry Banke in

College of Wi l liam and Ma r y, 1981 Portsmouth, N.H. She a l so spent two

10

CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES FACULTY AND STAFF

James R. Wi seman, Director of the Center and of the Academic Prog ram; Chairman, De pa r t ment of Class ical Stud ies; Pr ofessor of Archaeology, Art History , and Class i cs

Clar k M. Sykes, Director, Off ice of Publ ic Archaeol ogy; Adjunct Ass is tant Professor o f Arc haeology

Mary C. Beaudry, Assistant Professor o f Archaeol ogy and Anthropology

Rica r do Elia , I nstructo r of Archaeology and Classical Studies

Creighton Gabel , Prof essor o f Archaeo­l ogy and Anthropology ; Research As sociate in the Cente r f or Africa n Studies

Frede rick J .E. Gorman, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology

Ger a ld K. Ke lso, Coordinator o f Laboratory Faci l ities; Ass is tant Professor of Archaeology and Anthropology

Fred S. Kleiner, Associate Professor of Archaeology and Art History; Chairman, Department of Ar t History

Karl M. Petruso, Assistant Professor of Archaeology and Class ics

Edwin Wilmsen, Visiting Professor of Archaeology and An t hropology; Resea rch Associate in the Center f or Af r ican Studies

Ad j unct Faculty

Howard Kee, Professor of New Testament, School of Theology

Patricia McDowell , Assistant Professor of Geography

Keith Morgan, Direc tor of Preservation Studies; Assistant Professor of Art History

James Purvis , Professor of Religion and Acting Chair of the Division of Relig ious and Theo l ogical Studies, College of Liberal Arts

H. Nei l Richardson, Prof essor of Old Testament, School of Theology

Student Fellows

Patricia Crawford (Teach i ng Fellow)

Douglas George (Unive rsity Fellow)

Frederick P. Hemans (Teaching Fellow)

Debra Hudak (Journal of Field Archaeology Fellow)

James Cooper Wams l ey (University Fellow)

Gradua t e Assis tants

Kei th Adams

Will i am K. Barnett

Ge rald Macombe r

Center and Program Offic e

Ronda Grodberg , Admin istrative Assistant.

,. ,The rese Mahler, Secre tary

11

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

CENTER FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES

Membership in the Center is open to the public.

Categories of MembershipBe ne fits of Membership

Annual Dues*Subscr i p tion to the Center Newsletter Member $20

*Ar chaeo logical lecture series Student Member $10

*Di s count s on publications of the Contributing Member $50Cente r (also receives J o urnal o f Field Arc haeol ogy)*Archaeo logic al seminars

Patron (also receives $100*Trips to archaeological sites in the Jour nal of Fiel d Archaeo l ogy ;Unite d States and abroad may count $50 as tax-free contribution)

*Opportuni t i e s to participate in Benefactor (receives $500exca vat ion s and in laboratory work Journal of Fi e l d Archaeology and all publications of the Center;*Acce s s to the Archaeology Library may count $450 as a tax-free contribution)*Progr a ms for volunteers

Institutional or $1,000*Annua l Report of activities Corporate Benefac t ors

Fall Seminars (check seminars desired):

o "Archaeolo gy of Colonial Life in New England" $150 (Fee includes membership) o "Gr a ph ics for Archaeologists" $150 (Fee includes membership)

Name ___________________________________________________________________________________

Addr e ss

Membership Ca t egory_________________________________Amount Enclosed_________________

Chec ks s ho uld be made payable to the Center for Archaeological Studies, and

s hould be sent along with the membership form to:

Center for Archaeological Studies Boston University 232 Bay State Road Boston, MA 02215

12