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  • 1/12 Exhibit Reception: Thinking Like an Archaeologist

    Special Reception for Our New Exhibit: Thinking Like an Archaeologist
    Featuring the photos of John Spaulding
    Sunday, January 12, 12 noon to 3 pm
    Connecticut State Museum of Natural History
    No registration required – FREE

    Before his passing in 2010, John Spaulding worked as a volunteer for the Office of State Archaeology, photo-documenting almost every excavation OSA conducted in the previous decade. In those ten years he assembled an unprecedented body of work, consisting of thousands of images that truly captures the diversity and practice of modern archaeology in Connecticut. In this exhibit we focus on his photos from three sites that are particularly effective at communicating the thought process, historic research, field and lab techniques, and human stories behind each excavation. We hope that, in a small way, the exhibit serves as a remembrance of the enormous contribution John made to archaeology in Connecticut.

    Presented by the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Connecticut Archaeology Center, part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn. 860.486.4460 - www.mnh.uconn.edu

    For more information, contact: Natural History Museum at 860.486.4460