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Suttons Bay Anthropology Club conducts an eight-day Beaver Island archaeology summer school

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TypeEvent
Dates2003-06-23 – 2003-06-30
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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2003-06-23 – 2003-06-30
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Education
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Beaver Island
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Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

Thirty-seven Suttons Bay high-school students and eight chaperones participated in an eight-day Beaver Island archaeology summer school in June 2003. They worked on Garden Island and at several Beaver Island sites, recording Native American and historic artifacts for potential museum displays.

Evidence limits

The report is an educational field-program account, not a final archaeological inventory or site interpretation.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, October 2003, “Suttons Bay Anthropology Club Digs Out History”.
    Reports 37 high-school students and eight chaperones, Garden Island orienteering and camping, three test-pit sites, artifacts, museum collaboration, and hands-on field methods. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the October 2003 report.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-10_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Suttons Bay Anthropology Club conducts an eight-day Beaver Island archaeology summer school”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-suttons-bay-archaeology-summer-school-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2003, “Suttons Bay Anthropology Club Digs Out History”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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