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Dig This Opportunity!

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Excavation Volunteers Needed

We are writing to make you aware of a very special excavation coming up in September, 2018. Excavation volunteers are encouraged to join Jonathan Lothrop, Curator of Archaeology, and the New York State Museum team as we continue our excavation of the Owlville Pine, South site in Canastota, NY. Owlville Pine, South is a Crowfield Paleoindian site dating back approximately 12,000 years. Crowfield habitation sites are extremely rare, and the Crowfield people are among the least understood of the Paleoindian groups that visited New York State.

We will be digging from September 10-14 and then again from September 17-21. No prior experience is necessary. We welcome volunteers to join us for a few days or for the entire 2 weeks, whatever fits your schedule. For more information please contact Mike Beardsley at 315-345-5094 or email Mike at casketeer@aol.com. You may also contact Jon Lothrop at jonathan.lothrop@nysed.gov or at 518-486-2992 after September 4th.

Daniel H. Weiskotten Scholarship Fund 2018

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AWARD OF $750
&
1 YEAR MEMBERSHIP IN NYSAA

Administered by the
William M. Beauchamp Chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association

To apply for this award, a student must be a New York state resident enrolled in an accredited New York state college or university undergraduate anthropology or history program.  The student applicant must have completed a minimum of 30 credit hours; be majoring in anthropology or history; and be intending to pursue a career in archaeology (prehistoric, historic, military, industrial, underwater archaeology or museology); and have a financial need.

Beauchamp Scholarship Announcement (64.9 KiB)

Archaeology Video Fest

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The first NYSAA/NYAC Archaeology Video Fest took place on April 24th. This program will take place every other year and represents our contribution to Archaeology Season. The Archaeology Season poster will happen every other year. The links to most of the videos can be found in the file below. This file also contains information regarding the kinds of videos we are looking form the length of videos (up to 10 minutes or clips from longer films of that length) and ideas on how to make both live action videos and still frame videos). The next Video Fest will take place in April of 2020. Consider sharing the exciting work you do in video format.

Archaeology Video Fest (300.8 KiB)

The Funk Foundation’s 2018 Grant Cycle

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The Robert E. Funk Memorial Archaeology Foundation, Inc. is now accepting proposals for grants for research in New York State archaeology. Grant applications must be received by May 7, 2018. The grant applications will be reviewed by the Funk Foundation Board of Directors in a competitive process with award decisions made by June 22, 2018. Further information including the grant application forms and guidelines can be found on the Funk Foundation website at www.funkfoundation.org. If you have any questions, please email Funk Foundation Board President Ed Curtin at ecurtin12003@yahoo.com, or call Ed at (518) 928-8813.

The 2018 grants are for amounts in the range of $1,000.00-$2,500.00. They are ideal to assist parts of stand-alone research projects or studies that are parts of larger projects. For example, Funk Foundation grants have been made to support a range of services such as faunal analysis, radiocarbon dating, petrographic slides, lithic analysis, and remote sensing. Funk Foundation grants do not support fieldwork other than technical applications such as remote sensing.

The Funk Foundation’s 2018 Grant Cycle (41.4 KiB)

Beta Analytic Raffle

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Need a Date? Join Beta Analytic’s Raffle

We are inviting all undergrad and postgrad students who need radiocarbon dating to join our raffle. We are giving away five (5) AMS dates worth US $595 each. The raffle is open to all students in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America. We will select one winner per region.

To join the raffle, please fill out the form found in our raffle page which requires a description of your research that needs AMS dating. Winners are required to show proof of enrollment for any semester in 2018. For details, please visit www.radiocarbon.com/raffle.htm