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A Day at the Mine
Read more: A Day at the MineHello everyone! George here again. I want to tell you all a bit about the coal mining experience in late 19th-century Wyoming and the kinds of tools miners used. The tool you see in the picture below is, you guessed it, a coal pickaxe head! Recovered in 2005 at one field season of the Evanston…
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Piecing together a historical flask’s identity
Read more: Piecing together a historical flask’s identityHello everyone, This is Evan again, back to share another historical bottle from Evanston Chinatown… or what’s left of it, anyway! While cataloging artifacts excavated during 2005 and 2006, we have come across many shards from a highly decorated, green bottle. While we were initially unable to identify it, a large side panel shard immediately…
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Newspaper article on Evanston Chinatown history and archaeology
Read more: Newspaper article on Evanston Chinatown history and archaeologyToday is the second day of the Spring semester at Grinnell College and we are back in the archaeology lab continuing to catalog artifacts from the Evanston Chinatown with research assistants Evan Albaugh and George Matthes. Over the winter break, archaeologist and project collaborator Dr. Dudley Gardner was interviewed by the Cowboy State Daily on…
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