The last time I worked for the Field school program (@1978) it was normal for us to have three different groups of students working on three different sites at the same time. In addition to this there was also the University Field School at Koster and very often there was also another field school program administered by Dr. Jane Buikstra.
There were times in the late 70’s/early eighties that the permanent staff, part time support staff, students (of all ages) and the Contract Archeology personnel were in total, far more numerous than the non-archeological population of kampsville
Larry Bartram (Right hand side, yellow shirt) Lectures pout in the field to a group of Mrs. MacDougall’s (Women in yellow shirt/blue skirt) Jr. High School Students from Winnetka, IL. Photo was made circa 1979. Site is possibly the Audry Site. The steel pipes in the ground are the “vertical datums”. They were the reference points used for measuring the vertical (beneath ground surface) distances.The last summer I worked for the Field School Program happened to coincide with another group from my alma-matter in Winnetka. Mrs. MacDougall, up until the time when she retired continued to bring groups of students to Kampsville. In the background wearing a hat you can see Larry BartramGlen Stone (then director of the Field School Program) Giving instructions to a group of Adult Field School StudentsNot wanting to miss out on important information on site stratigraphy the balks between units were left until sterile soil was reached. At that point in time they were profiled/drawn and then excacated.Excavation at a Jr. High Field School (Supervised by Tom Cook).Tarps are off, students are assigned to groups, and work is underway…Field School instructor working with Jr. High School students from Winnetka, IL. More than likely they are discussing filling in the paperwork for the sample that was just taken.A close up of a couple of students preparing a sample in a brown paper bag. This image illustrates many of the tools used out in the field: Trowel, sample bags, and bushel baskets.After a rain the individual excavations become small plastic lined pools of water. At the end of each day the sites were covered with black plastic and weighted down with whatever material was handy and re-usable. Sometimes it was tires, very often it was sandbags or large smooth rocks, in this case it was cinderblocks. Here you can see Glen stone on the right, giving instructions to a group of young-adult field school students on the fine art of removing the water so that you do little damage to the excavation in progress. Attributed to Audry Site @1979The Town of Kampsville itself was built over a Middle Woodland Site. A particularly rich area was right in front of the repository/storage building the archeologists built on the North Side of Town-West of the main highway. Occaisio0nally because of it’s convenient location this site was used as a teaching location for Field School Groups. The GOK site (Gardens of Kampsville) is shown here with a group of Jr. High School students (and an instructor) working at plotting some large rocks in their square. The repository can be seen in the upper left of the image. This is a nice shot of a typical site with all the normal paraphernalia like bushel backets, tools, screening tables ect…
