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Archeology Field School & Videography Workshop

The Schoharie River Center held its 5th annual Archeology Field School from August 20 – 24 this past summer in Burtonsville.  Also that week, the Schoharie River Center held a videography training workshop and began a mercury study of the Schoharie Creek. It was a very busy week!


Archeology

Working in partnership with professional archeologists from Hartgen Archeological Associates of Albany New York, 15 youth from the River Center’s Environmental Study Team worked to excavate a pre-historic site along the Schoharie Creek in Burtonsville.

Working under the supervision of Corey McQuinn, Project Director for Hartgen Archeological Associates, the team found much evidence of early pre-contact Native-American inhabitance along the Schoharie Creek in Burtonsville. Artifacts discovered include hundreds of pieces of Chert flakes and fire cracked rock indicating the site was used as a place to make projectile points, stone tools and pottery.

Although further artifact analysis and testing will occur at the Laboratories at Hartgen, initial study of the artifacts, including the pottery indicate that the site is very old, possibly dating back as far as  0 – 999 AD.

For more information about Hartgen Archeological Associates go to their website at: www.hartgen.com

Click here to see a slide show* of photos taken by EST members.


Videography

Also during this week, members of Freshwaters Illustrated from Mapleton, Oregon were on hand to provide professional video production training to the youths.  The EST team is beginning to put together a documentary video about the EST program.

Click here to see a slide show of photos taken by the Freshwaters Illustrated team while working with EST.  For more information about Freshwaters Illustrated, check out their website at: www.freshwatersillustrated.org.


Mercury Study

Under the direction of Dr. Barbara Brabetz, Assistant Professor of Natural Sciences at Cobleskill College, along with several of the Fisheries Biology faculty, the EST members also spent a day learning how to and conducting a mercury study.  

A great variety of fish were collected from the creek including Small Mouth Bass, Walleye, Stone Catfish, Hognosed Stone Roller, Darter, Blacknose Dace, Sucker Carp and more.

Click here to see photos from EST's testing at the SUNY Cobleskill labratories.


* To view the slide show, you need Adobe Flash Player installed. You can download it here.

 



 

 

 

 

 

 







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