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Announcing the 2024 Summer Excavation Opportunity! Location: Selby Howard Site, Pumpkin Hook, Farmington, New York Dates: Saturday and Sunday, July 20th and 21st and Saturday and Sunday, July 27th and 28th Description: The Morgan Chapter will be excavating at the Selby Howard site in Pumpkin Hook located near 1816 Quaker Meeting House, which is a hamlet of Farmington, NY. The site is associated with an African American man who escaped from slavery in 1850....

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In this talk, Larry Naylor will discuss strategies for taking photographs of small archaeological artifacts for presentations, reports, and publication using digital photography and Photoshop for processing images. Lighting techniques, positioning, backgrounds, and scales are important for accurate documentation of artifacts. Photographing lithics, ceramics, glass, coins, metal objects, and skeletal material will be demonstrated throughout the presentation.

Presentation by: Martha L. Sempowski Date: Wednesday June 29, 2022, 7:00 pm Location: Pittsford Recreation, 35 Lincoln Ave., Pittsford NY 14534 This talk by Martha Sempowski will provide a brief summary of the most important questions and conclusions reached by co-author Anthony Wonderley and her in their book on the League of the Iroquois published by Syracuse University Press in 2019. The Iroquois League, made up of the five historically-known tribal groups (Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and Mohawk) whose homelands stretched across NYS, was the most famous native political alliance in northeastern North America during the 17th and 18th centuries....