POTTERY IN A TRASH PIT: CAN THIS TELL US HOW TWO GROUPS OF PEOPLE GOT ALONG? BY: PATTI HUNG AND KELSEY BREEN The Late Woodland people are viewed as having been the original inhabitants of …
Aztalan Fieldschool Blog
Posts from our Aztalan Fieldschool students
2016 Week 4
FROM THE LAND TO THE LAB By Tim Lemond & Sarah Taylor Our last week of excavation brought us face to face with one of the challenges of fieldwork: adapting to the ecological environment. As …
2016 Week 3
POST MOLDS, POST MOLDS, POST MOLDS By Kelly Martin & Kenneth Xavier This week at Aztalan yielded some of the greatest excitement yet! Large post molds, too many features to count, potsherds, lithics, and …
2016 Week 2
UNDERSTANDING THE SOIL By Emily Eichstedt Anderson & Lupe Granados After a Memorial Day weekend we were back at work with our excavations. Everyone returned to work on Tuesday, but rain caused us to have …
2016 Week 1
FIVE MYTHS OF AZTALAN By: Kirsten Hines and Marissa Lee There are a lot of myths floating around the “legendary Lake Mills” and many of them revolve around the Native American site of Aztalan. So, …