Native American Heritage Month 2022

Exhibit presented by :
Anold Bernhard Library
Indigenous Student Union
Students from the course Anthropolgy 233: Practicing Archaeology

The North Haven Archaeological Site

Presented by AN 233

North Haven Archaeological Site.pptx

PDF of slides and notes with image descriptions.

Vertical glass display case, about 6 feet tall, with slides and artifacts described below.

Artifacts found on the surface at the North Haven Campus:

evidence of making spear points for hunting

Stone tools made from quartz:

These are points from the site of Burwell-Karako located in East Haven, CT

Four white quartz points (triangular or arrowhead-shaped) ranging from ½ inch to 1 inch long and ¼ inch to1/2 inch wide, and a yellowish quartz smooth round stone, about 2inches by 2 inches. The stone appears broken off at the bottom and is labeled K-26-7 near the bottom edge.

Stone tool found by Robin and Peter Corey:

They live next to the North Haven campus and are the ones who discovered artifacts in the area. Robin’s father owned the property from the 1960s - 1980s.

A single white quartz point, arrowhead-shaped, about 1.5 inches long and ½ inch wide, displayed on a wooden block.

Hammerstone:

Used for hitting quartz pebbles to make stone tools

A round dark gray-brown smooth stone with minor pitting, about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide.

Three white quartz chunks displayed on a wood block surrounded by about 25 more quartz chunks, some yellowish or grayish, most of them white. A partially-visible paper in the background indicates that they are from teh Quinnipiac North Haven site and is dated 7/18/2022.

Quartz flakes:

The debris produced when making a stone tool

About 30 chunks of quartz, mostly white, some yellow or gray, ranging from ¼ inch to ¾ inch in size. Three of them are displayed on a wood block, and the others grouped around the block. There is a white paper label dated 7/18/2022 behind them that indicates that they are from the Quinnipiac site.

Experimental Archaeology

A collection of quartz debris, a bone tool, safety glasses arrangged on a rectangular piece of leather in front of the Expeimental Archaeology slide.

Experimental archaeology is a hands-on approach (literally!) to learning about how things were made and used in the past.

Five women sitting in a semicircle on a silver tarp on the floor, making tools from quartz.

Anthony Gambardella sitting on a silver tarp on the floor working with a quartz stone about the size of a baseball. He is holding the stone at the edge of a rectangular object about a foot square leaning against one leg. He is sitting straight-legged and there is a pile of larger stones next to his left leg.

Expert flintknapper and SCSU student Anthony Gambardella showing students in AN 233 how to make tools from quartz. Quartz is a very common material in this region and was used by Indigenous people for thousands of years to make tools such as spear points and scrapers.

brochure p2.pdf

Brochure p1 contrast.pdf

Spears made by AN 233 students. Three spears, about 4 feet long, with colorful feathers attached for stability in flight and the forward end tapered. The photo was taken looking up at the spears suspended from blue translucent stairs.

Special thanks to:

Paul Wegner, Robin and Peter Corey, Sarah Sportman, Bill Farley, Anthony Gambardella, Jim Powers, Maria Trumpler, The North Haven Historical Society, and Paul Grant-Costa for graciously sharing the knowledge, resources, and artifacts to make this exhibit possible.

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