Barry Keegan offers this basket workshop, teaching you to weave with splints of basswood with the outer bark still attached. Finished basket approximately 10” tall. Keegan also demonstrates how baskets were made with stone tools. *Cost: $60.00; limited to 15 students Pre-registration required. Please call 802-759-2412. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

Learn the history of what surrounds you as you walk across the Lake Champlain Bridge. Chimney Point site administrator Elsa Gilbertson and Crown Point site manager Michael Roets lead this guided round trip walk. Meet at Chimney Point. Rain or shine, dress for the weather. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

Jess Robinson will present an overview of the early Native History of the upper Connecticut River and adjacent areas, focusing on early and often overlooked documentary and archaeological evidence. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

Come and visit the Vermont Archaeology Heritage Center and participate in an Abenaki drum workshop with Melody Brook. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

Vermont Agency of Transportation archaeologists will present three separate topics about Vermont’s rich archaeological heritage including the Judge Milford Smith Artifact Collection and the underwater archaeology of Lake Champlain Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department’s new Dead Creek Visitor Center in Addison houses a small collection of artifacts from the Champlain Valley, and a timeline discussing how humans have interacted with the natural world through time. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

The 1st Annual VAS Student Paper Contest Prize will be awarded before the James B. Petersen Lecture. The winning student will receive $500 and have their paper published on our website.

Jen Russell (VTrans -official sponsor of VAM) and Jenny Craig (LCMM). Venue TBD

Please join us for the 5th annual James B. Petersen lecture. Dr. John Krigbaum from the University of Florida - Gainsville will discuss aspects of his recent bioarchaeological research. Part of Vermont Archaeology Month

How did Vermonters live in the past? What tools did they make and how did they make them? What has happened in the Upper Connecticut Valley during the last 12,900 years, and, most importantly, how do we know? Find out for yourself at Archaeology Day—a day-long celebration of us—the humans! Examine real artifacts in our […]