The work of University of Mississippi Assistant Professor of Anthropology Maureen Meyers and a group of her students will be featured in a magazine in the fall, according to the university.
University of Mississippi students participated this summer in a four-week field school excavating the remains of a Native American house at the Carter Robinson Mound site in Ewing, Virginia.
The group reviewd a house on the site that was partially excavated in 2007 and 2008.
“We knew from the past work that there were three houses built on top of one another in this location, which is unlike any of the other houses at the site,” Meyers said. “This year, we uncovered about half of the second house.
“To my surprise, we found burned walls and logs in really good preservation. We uncovered these walls, mapped and photographed them, and excavated posts from this house and the house above it.”
The site also will be featured in American Archaeology magazine later this fall.
To date, more than 90,000 artifacts have been recovered from excavation, including ceramics, lithics, animal bones, botanical remains, building material from burned walls and other smaller items, such as shell beads.
Work at the site has been funded by a UM College of Liberal Arts Summer Research Grant, a National Geographic Society Exploration and Research Grant, a Sigma Xi Grant-in-Aid, a Virginia Academy of Sciences Research grant and a University of Kentucky Dissertation Enhancement Award.
Dalton Capps, a graduate student in anthropology from Columbus, is building his thesis based on lithic tool productions from the site.
“I am looking at how the different structures that have been excavated at Carter Robinson differ when it comes to lithic production,” Capps said.
He also participated in the field school as an Ole Miss undergraduate student in 2015.
