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By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
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I thought I’d share a series of updates about what some of our former Mule Creek field school students and staff members have been doing lately. Here is the first installment:
 From Jake Mitchell (2011 Field School, Hendrix College): “In October I started working for a CRM firm called Panamerican Consultants. For four months, I worked in Arkansas doing Phase 2 testing and excavation; data recovery in the river valley for a proposed shipping facility on the Arkansas River. I am now in Louisiana doing survey in Kisatche National Forest. The joy of contract Archaeology is that I have no idea what’s next! Archaeology in the South is very different than the Southwest, in content and in practice, but I am thankful for my experience in Mule Creek.”
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 From Kelsey Shaw (2011 Field School, Grand Valley State University): “I’m working with our university’s faunal remains specialist, who is building a comparative collection of animal remains. I’m doing most of the dirty work in the wet lab, processing the animals, and cataloging the skeletons. It’s messy work, but it’s fascinating.”
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 Will Ferguson (2011 Field School, University of Texas San Antonio). The winner of the 2010 field school’s sandal-making competition tells us: “I just graduated from UTSA and now I am in the process of looking for a job to start the next chapter of life. I have been sending my resume into all sorts of jobs, including land man for oil companies, land and oil well survey, and some environmental field work.”
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 From Emily Polansky (2011 Field School, Rutgers University): “I am finishing up my final semester at Rutgers University. This year I have been working on completing my geology minor and have taken courses in sedimentology, stratigraphy, and microstratigraphic analysis in archaeology. I hope that all of these courses will help me later. I am taking Anthropology of Native North America and hope to learn more about modern Native American groups. I am also applying for archaeology field internships and museum internships.”
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More to follow soon!
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