The Smith's Island Archaeology Project

  I am so excited that after months of planning and working with many old friends, partners, and students we are finally poised to once again pick up trowels, dustpans, and sifters and get back to work uncovering sites that will shed new light on Bermuda's rich, complex history!  We return to the early days of SIAP, when it was as much a classroom as a research site, where I guided those interested in history and archaeology in understanding how old documents, rusty nails, pottery sherds, and post holes cut into the bedrock can be "read", and used to create new stories about individuals and complex anthropological processes. One UR  graduate and three undergraduate students will transform from newbies to archaeologists over the course of five weeks, joined by at least four Bermudians who have signed up following a recent  ROYAL GAZETTE story and Bermuda National Trust outreach. The incomparable Ewan Shannon is returning as lead field supervisor and we are very fortu...