Archaeology Day - DCHS Museum

Yesterday we held an Archaeology Day event at the museum as part of Indiana DNR Archaeology month. We are fortunate enough to have as one of the museum's volunteers a retired national parks service archaeologist, Ben Morris who came in and helped make the event possible by spending the day identifing artifacts and answeing visitors questions about Native American culture from the surround area. Explaining how the different points and tools people brought in were used by the local Natives long ago, as well as dating the artifacts.

The day was a major success! We planned to run the event from 10-2 but it was close to 3 before the last visitor had left. We had over 100 people attend the event and now how to run something similiar to this next Spring due to how sucessful our Archaeology Day event turned out.

The Greensburg Daily News was their to cover the event so I'm looking forward to seeing what they had to say about our exhibit. I'll admit I am very enthused as to how well this went and hope that the rest of our September events do just as great!


Now on to some of the pictures I took:


Busy at the very start of the day!


Ben Looks at an artifact


Looking over some more items


Explaining how this particular piece would have been used




Crowd listening to Ben Morris


Looking over our exhibit of locally found points and artifacts


All kids who came in were welcome to take one of these broken points to help start their collection


Examining a particularly impressive collection


These two little girls had a great time looking over the entire exhibit


Ben called this "Thebes" point the most impressive piece brought in during the day