To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we're posting some of the experiential essay… Read More To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we're posting some of the experiential essay… Read More Finally this wee…
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Whispering Woods is situated in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County, New Jersey. The project area currently consists of mainly open agricultural fields with some forested terrain and is bisected by a first order tributary of a nearby creek. T…
Alex Denning holds a Master of Science in Human Osteology and Palaeopathology from the University of Bradford (UK) and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Muhlenberg College (PA). Alex’s research explores mobility and migration of popul…
To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we’re posting some of the experiential essays written by our students. These essays were part of their end-of-semester final reports. In addition to reporting the semester’s finds, ana…
To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we’re posting some of the experiential essays written by our students. These essays were part of their end-of-semester final reports. In addition to reporting the semester’s finds, ana…
To wrap up the 2014-2015 Whispering Woods field season, we’re posting some of the experiential essays written by our students. These essays were part of their end-of-semester final reports. In addition to reporting the semester’s finds, ana…
Posted March 29, 2015, in News. Finally this week we had everyone in the field. This was great because it meant there were enough of us to break into three shovel test crews. Each crew took a line and we progressed into the woods of site 4.…
Posted March 20, 2015, in News. While other Rutgers-Camden students enjoyed Spring Break somewhere on a sunny beach, the students of Whispering Woods were hard at work. Even though participation was purely optional, several of our students
Posted March 13, 2015, in News. Finally after seven weeks of sub-zero temperatures, the Whispering Woods team has returned to the field. It was a balmy 50 degrees F and a beautiful day to do some archaeology! Oh, how great it was to be back…
Posted March 2, 2015, in News. The aim of this week’s class was to introduce the students to context, stratigraphy, and all the field paperwork required to document it. In archaeology, we use a concept known as the Harris Matrix to describe…
Posted February 13, 2015, in News. It’s official – bones are the coolest part of the body! This week we learned all about human osteology, bioarchaeology, forensic anthropology, human evolution, and grave goods (whew!). It was a lot of grou…