Jay Heritage Center:
Archaeology Camp for Kids
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Day 1 of Archaeology Camp - Dr. Eugene Boesch Explains the First Peoples history of the Jay Property, Rye
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Day 2 Carol Ward helps explain how we map the location of what we find
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Days 3 and 4 Everyone learns about identifying 18th century nails and stone saltware pottery
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Day 2 How do we record archaeological findings?
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Day 1 Carol Ward from Morris Jumel Mansion explains how we look at artifacts
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Day 1 What does an artifact look and feel like?
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Days 3 and 4 Delicate porcelain fragments discovered
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Days 3 and 4 Everyone learns to identify pottery shards
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Days 3 and 4 We have two test pits
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Days 3 and 4 We find things like this prehistoric flake or blade
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Days 3 and 4 We find things like this wrought iron nail from the 1700s
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Days 3 and 4 Dr. Boesch helps confirm the strata level
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Days 3 and 4 Earth is sifted through screens
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Days 3 and 4 We start to dig in carefully measured gridded squares
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Day 2 Making our own artifacts to familiarize ourselves with pottery patterns
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Day 5 Cleaning the artifacts
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Day 5 Cleaning and sorting the artifacts like this kaolin "T. D. pipe"
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Day 5 Sorting Strata #7 - Nails, shells, pottery, bones and more
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Day 5 A private tour of the 1907 Seth Thomas clock mechanism and a chance to hear it ring the hour