News from the Field 2021
Above: Doctoral candidate Laura Bossio found a high density of artifacts during her survey of the Buttonwood field at the Williams site in Ohio. Left: Graduate student Kara Larson excavated at the Hester site in northeast Mississippi. Here she is digging in levels containing Early Archaic materials.
el-Hesi, Israel, partially supported through an external grant from the American Society of Overseas Research. Kara submitted two chapters and an article for publication on Khirbet Summeily, an Iron Age outpost in southern Israel, and finalized additional articles for submission this fall. Kara ended her summer by joining the excavations at the Belson site with Brendan Nash and Museum curator Henry Wright. In August, Kara had the pleasure of marrying the love of her life (a fellow archaeologist), James Strawn, from the University of Georgia. This summer was the second year of excavations at the Belson site in Saint Joseph County. With the help of U-M students and local citizens, Brendan Nash and Henry Wright continued to uncover an early Paleoindian campsite. They meticulously mapped the location of every piece of cultural material. Their best interpretation of the site is that it was a short-term camp occupied by a relatively small group of people who were hunting and processing plants and animals. They plan to conduct a thorough analysis of the excavated material in the coming months. www.lsa.umich.edu/ummaa • Fall 2021 • page 21
