Since 1991, SUNY Adirondack has hosted an amazing number of archaeological field schools in our local area (every summer for 29 years!). Their support for local archaeology has been amazing, and President Kris Duffy visited our dig this year on Thursday, August 15. For all of these years, we have moved field schools back and forth between Lake George and Fort Edward, New York— focusing on military sites from the French & Indian War—and this has included many seasons at Fort William Henry, the Lake George Battlefield Park, Rogers Island, and the fort in Fort Edward…
… Although we have not yet finished our work, this year we thus far have recovered numerous musket balls, several coins, much porcelain, two buckles (see Plate 4), buttons, many tobacco pipe fragments, and butchered animal bones everywhere. Much of this work continues to be geared toward “exactly what differentiates an ‘officers’ site from that of more regular soldiers or rangers?” and we are intent on developing indoor and outdoor exhibits for the public that will share what we have learned…
