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The Hamilton Analytical Lab, now in its second year of operation, was recently awarded a five-year, $300,000 contract to provide analytical support for United States Geological Survey Volcano Hazards scientists.

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.

This year, an earth materials analytical instrument, an x-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer, began operation in the Geosciences Department.

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

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.

Six Hamilton faculty members were recognized for their research and creative successes with the Dean’s Scholarly Achievement Awards, presented by Dean of Faculty Patrick Reynolds on Class & Charter Day on May 9.

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, 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.