Dig Deerfield! Free Family Archaeology Dig with UMass Archaeologists
The UMass Archaeological Field School will hold two free family-oriented shoebox digs at Historic Deerfield's Moors House Lab (103 Old Main Street) on Saturday August 2 and 9 from 1-3:30 p.m. Visitors can clean, sort, and identify artifacts, learn about Native lifeways in the Valley, and even make a redware pinch pot or clay marble alongside UMass archaeologists.
As part of an ongoing community-based archaeology project sponsored by UMass Outreach, the 2008 UMass Field School Archaeology lab and Dig Deerfield! Programs are open to the public to share information about the full scope of archaeology from researching Euro-American colonization and New England Native history to archaeological survey techniques, excavation methods, laboratory methods, artifact analysis, archaeological interpretation, site protection and community-based archaeology.
All programs are offered free of charge. For more information on Dig Deerfield! or the Open Archaeology Lab please contact Julie Woods at woods@anthro.umass.edu or 508-254-0419.
For more information about Historic Deerfield visit Historic-Deerfield.org
Directions & Parking
The Laboratory is located in the Moors House on “The Street” in Historic Deerfield Village
http://www.historic-deerfield.org/Maps.shtml