IPFW archaeology

Photos by Chris Meyer

Andrew White (left), assistant director of the IPFW Archaeological Survey, and IPFW senior Colin Graham of Fort Wayne use ground penetrating radar to examine the terrain near Prophetstown.

Robert McCullough (left), director of the IPFW Archaeological Survey, talks about the IPFW field school as students work in the background near Prophetstown.

IPFW junior Scott Hipskind of Fort Wayne uses a gradiometer, two magnetometers put together, to record magnetic readings in an area that was once settled near Prophetstown. The readings generally indicate areas that have been burned.

Mariah Yager, lab manager for the IPFW Archaeological Survey, walks along a dusty field near Prophetstown where students and faculty are working.

Robert McCullough, director of the IPFW Archaeological Survey, holds up a ring that was unearthed at a site near Prophetstown.

IU Bloomington senior Mike Hughes (left) tosses a shovel of dirt into a sifter as Butler University student Ashley Holmes looks for artifacts.

A seal containing a coat of arms, used to seal official documents, was one of the many finds at the excavation site near Prophetstown.

IPFW Department of Anthropology post doctoral research assistant Mike Strezewski holds a musket's trigger guard that was discovered at the excavation site.