Welcome. Its been a little slow starting, with Blogger issues mostly straightened out and the academic year in full swing, we can finally start getting into the thick of things. We've got a couple of posts ready to go up this week. One on the recent article about the possible over-exploitation of Giant Clams by early modern humans and an object of the day feature about one of the Inuit needle cases in our Ethnographic Collections.
Before that, how about a little about the Lab and what we've got going on right now? Let's start with who we are and what we do... The Anthropology Lab here at Luther College curates Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Numismatic Collections. The archaeological collections focus on the prehistory of Northeast Iowa, specifically in the Upper Iowa River valley, but also contains site collections from across Iowa. The ethnographic objects in our collection originate from numerous countries around the globe with particular emphasis on Alaska, North America, and Africa. The Numismatic Collection includes ancient Greek, Roman, and Jewish coins as well as a wide assortment of historic foreign and American currency.
We use these collections primarily for research, exhibition, and the education of Luther students and people in our surrounding community. This year there are 14 students working in the lab, in addition to myself. They are working on a number of projects, first of which is cataloging the artifacts from the excavation of a historic site in Van Buren County, IA. We've also got a few students working on this blog; one student digitizing our site documents; 1 student digitizing sound recordings from the Chiwere Sioux Language Project; and a few students getting ready to start exhibit research.
Its gonna be a busy semester. We hope you'll check back and see how things are going...
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