for the newbies, and anyone else who's interested

[schmarty_hosen]

The Burke Museum here at UW has a cool description of a site that was excavated here in Seattle.

Westpoint Excavation

Thought some of the students who are interested in Archaeology might like to see what N. American archaeology is like... at least in the Pacific Northwest.

Comments

[_boneflower_]

Thanks for posting that! That's the area I grew up in, where my father did archaeology, so that was really fun to see.

[hestialacey]

Thank you for providing that link.

Bizzarely enough, I actually wrote about Puget Sound in one of my very first archaeology essay assignments, but I was writing about the spit, not the archaeology!

I have to say, as a student studying in the U.K. I rarely think to look at the U.S. for case studies or examples. This, however, is a wonderful site. It will remind me to look beyond the U.K, Europe and the East in the future; it's a bad habit that I just can't seem to get out of.

[schmarty_hosen]

I think alot of American students think the same thing sometimes.

There's one book I've been meaning to get around to, so I can't tell you what it's like. But Boomtown Saloons, by one of the archaeology profs at my university, looks good.