South Champlain Historical Ecology Project

06/12/2022

01/01/2022

Lots of fun seeing our new grant near the top of Castleton's top 10 stories list from 2021. The official grant start date is tomorrow! Here's hoping 2022 is an even better year than 2021!

Castleton University will provide up to 40 paid internships to continue archaeologic exploration at Granger House after receiving a nearly $500,000 grant to support education in archeology, geography, history, and related fields from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

11/06/2021

Some nice coverage of the new grant in the Rutland Herald.

CASTLETON — An historic building will be the home of a new museum and learning space at Castleton University.

10/29/2021

This is an amazing development for SCHEP and will provide a fantastic venue to share our results and continue the educational outreach we've done over the last five years. Very exciting!
https://www.castleton.edu/news-media/article/nearly-500-000-grant-creates-internships-museum-and-learning-lab-at-castleton-s-granger-house/?fbclid=IwAR2QGBQryziVhHFWmo87CI7S2jVgc6ADFgJIzVckYUe5ZVQeVOanoD3OmfI

Castleton University will provide up to 40 paid internships to continue archaeologic exploration at Granger House after receiving a nearly $500,000 grant to support education in archeology, geography, history, and related fields from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

10/12/2021

For those of you who don't know, Megan Battey passed away a little over two weeks ago. Megan was a remarkably sweet, generous, and witty soul whose presence will be deeply missed by all those who knew her. Archaeology was a passionate avocation for Megan. She was one of the earliest regular volunteers with SCHEP and always brought her sincere interest, stimulating conversation, and trusty sharpie(!) to the field. Her engaging attention, keen wit, and treats highlighted many a quiet lab day. Personally, I will most miss her kind thoughts, insights, and gentle suggestions on all manner of subjects well beyond archaeology. Megan's parting is a sad loss to our community and she will be greatly missed.

09/13/2021

If you haven't already done so, please take a few moments to read Charlie Paquin's obituary. His public outreach and education efforts on all things Vermont are truly remarkable and certainly impacted thousands of young people across the region.
https://vtdigger.org/obituary/charles-p-paquin-archaeologist-and-brother/?fbclid=IwAR3Rb-aPrnnWiqMADv2JNqygt_VmRRNtdneSXh-qceN6qW-NyEYLjHpdBD0

People who knew Charlie well will carry with them his contagious curiosity and enthusiasm for history, prehistory, music, movies and whatever fun grabbed him. He'd always give that, and whatever else he could, to anyone around him.

08/12/2021

This untextured 3D model of the gravestone for Jesse Benjamin (died 1813, aged 19) in the Galick Cemetery highlights how much detail a 3D scan can reveal even through a layer of moss. The Sketchfab post below contains a link to 3D models of how this stone looks today with the naked eye. The difference is striking and it is possible to gain much more information about what must have been a sad and tragic event for his parents.

Jesse Benjamin gravestone from Galick Cemetery, West Haven, Rutland County, VT. Gravestone displayed as non-textured file to show details visible through moss before and after cleaning. Compare to the stone as seen before cleaning: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mossy-gravestone-pre-cleaning-cudap-...

07/20/2021

Check out this collection of 3D images we made of some of the Galick Cemetery headstones. These were made from scans collected after the VOCA crew had done an incredible amount of work repairing and resetting stones, but before the final stone cleaning process. It will be very fun to head back over there in the next couple of weeks to create new images from the cleaned stones and see the difference. The resolution on these is greatly reduced for internet usage.

Galick Cemetery - A 3D model collection by Castleton University Digital Archaeology Project ()

06/02/2021

Check out a sneak peek at the new Catamount exhibit at the Vermont Historical Society!

05/30/2021

Bifurcate Point from northern Vermont. Details TBA.