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Lillia McEnaney ’17, a double major in archaeology and religious studies, will attend New York University’s prestigious master’s program in museum studies in the fall. There, she will focus her research on museum anthropology and intellectual property issues in indigenous community museums.

A large group of Hamilton students, alumni and faculty attended and presented at the 82nd Annual Society for American Archaeology (SAA) meeting that took place March 29th to April 2nd in Vancouver, B.C.

Four students have been awarded Class of 1979 Travel grants. Anna Arnn ’17, Lindsay Buff ’17, Emily Hull ’18 and Mariah Walzer ’17 were each awarded funds to attend the Society for American Archaeology meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in 2017. They will present posters about research conducted at Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village in British Columbia, Canada, during past summers.

As a kid Max Lopez ’15 would dig up his parents’ backyard and visit every museum he could in pursuit of his favorite subject.

Petra Elfström ’18 combined her interests in archaeology, art and archaeology to make a film on the archaeological practices of the Slocan Narrows Archaeological Project.

Mariah Walzer ’17, an archaeology major, spent this summer analyzing the lithic artifacts recovered from 2015 field school at the Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village in British Columbia.

This summer Anna Arnn ’17, an archaeology concentrator, took her research from last year a step further. Under the advisement of Nathan-Goodale, Arnn studied faunal remains and animal bones that were collected during a previous field trip.

The Slocan Narrows Archaeological Project, directed by Associate Professor of Anthropology Nathan Goodale and Visiting Instructor of Anthropology Alissa Nauman, was featured in a photograph on the September cover of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) publication The SAA Archaeological Record. Pictured on the is the excavation at a 2,600-year-old pithouse at the project site located in southeastern British Columbia with field school students Anna Arnn ’17, Mariah Walzer ’17 and Michael Graeme (Selkirk College/University of Victoria).  

This summer, Lillia McEnaney ’17 split her time excavating a Greek island and making three-dimensional models of stone inscriptions in Macedonia.  McEnaney was a field volunteer at Despotiko, a late archaic to early classical sanctuary to the Greek God Apollo in the middle of the Cycladic islands. She then participated in a field school at a Balkan Heritage Foundation course in Macedonia.

This summer, a group of nine students, including five Hamilton students Lindsay Buff, Anna Arnn, Petra Elfström, Mariah Walzer, and Grace Berg spent six weeks in the picturesque Slocan Valley, British Columbia, as participants in Hamilton’s archaeology field school led by Nathan Goodale, associate professor of anthropology, and Alissa Nauman.