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Doing some survey (slope mapping) in the Daniel Boone National Forest. #archaeologyOffice #archaeology #fieldwork #CRMArch #LearnWorkDiscover
August 20, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Our #travelingexhibit "St. Clair's Defeat Revisited" made the list! Check it and these other great resources out! #communityengagement #archaeology #LearnWorkDiscover
November 26, 2024 at 9:51 PM
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Ready for the AAL's contribution to the SAA poster session this morning. From federally funded Historic Preservation Fund, administered by Indiana DHPA. This is about our analysis of use of landscape in Harrison Crawford State Forest. #archaeology #conference #LearnWorkDiscover #ChertChert
April 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A version of our #NEHFunded #TravelingExhibit is at Hopewell Culture National Historical Park until April. You can see the original starting the 24th at Ohio History Connection. bit.ly/StClairsDefe...
#CommunityEngagedScholarship #NativeAmericanHistory #Archaeology #History #LearnWorkDiscover #WeFly
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January 15, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our #LearnWorkDiscover project on the abandoned town of Singapore, MI getting some attention! #archaeology #gpr #dunes #CRMArch
illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · May 14
Despite myths about Singapore, MI, being beneath coastal dunes, work in Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology suggests village placement in a relatively flat, interdunal area between coastal dunes. @vinr-mims.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/mcja/art... @sunyfredgeoesci.bsky.social
Cover of Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 2024 Official Journal of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc. Orange and blue background with a postcard of southern Singapore, Michigan, in 1869.
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Embarrassing failures & technology malfunctions didn't keep us from moving forward, slowly, unevenly, but forward. A beautiful place, far from the noises of modern life, & included being serenaded by two bald eagles. #archaeology #geophysics #LearnWorkDiscover #communityengagement 5/5
Screenshot from Merlin Bird ID app showing an identified bald eagle call and a tufted titmouse.
May 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Our motto is #LearnWorkDiscover and we provide #ExperientialLearning for our #StudentEmployees so they graduate with real research and field experience. To keep the AAL funded, we secure service contracts (#CRMArch) and grants from various sources. This is where the #ADHD comes in handy. 4/17
November 21, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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Today was a roller-coaster day. Started w/ a farmer not happy about letting us through their field, a delayed start out to said field, a GPS malfunction, a GIS error (possibly user error, but unclear), switching to manual grid layout. Very slow start. #archaeology #geophysics #LearnWorkDiscover 1/5
View of a sprawling floodplain prairie with an ATV driving into the distance towards the field site. Perspective of the photographer is from another vehicle following the lead ATV in an archaeology field catavan.
May 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Last day doing #archaeology #geophysics #fieldwork at Prophetstown State Park. AAL #studentemployees are core a sample of possible features detected by magnetic gradiometry. #LearnWorkDiscover #ChertChert #experientiallearning #HistoryMatters
July 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Another steamy day of #archaeology #geophysics at Prophetstown State Park. Our #studentemployees are conducting #GPR survey while AAL Director, Dr. Nolan does a #magnetometry survey. #LearnWorkDiscover #historymatters
July 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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You won't want to miss this opportunity to hear Logan York and I speak about St. Clair's Defeat Revisited next Tuesday evening in Chillicothe! #NEHFunded #TravelingExhibit #NativeAmerican #History #Archaeology #LearnWorkDiscover
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March 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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More coverage of #NSFfunded #research by the COADS project, collaboration between Applied Anthropology Laboratories ( #WeFly) and University of Akron, on the function and life history of Early Archaic stone tools. #Lithics #ChertChert #LearnWorkDiscover #archaeology #geometricmorphometric
illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · May 20
"Morphometric Analysis of Allometry and Modularity in Early Holocene Thebes and St. Charles Points of Midcontinental North America" appears in Vol. 49, Iss. 3, of Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology. By @vinr-mims.bsky.social et al. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/mcja/art...
Cover of Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Volume 49, Issue 3, Fall 2024 Official Journal of the Midwest Archaeological Conference, Inc. Orange and blue background with a postcard of southern Singapore, Michigan, in 1869.
May 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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My research can be accessed: www.researchgate.net/profile/Kevi... & ballstate.academia.edu/KevinCNolan. Check out what the AAL is doing: bsu.edu/aal. Probably some oversharing, but that probably gives you a good idea of what types of stuff I will be sharing on here. 17/17
Kevin NOLAN | Director and Senior Archaeologist | PhD | Ball State University, Muncie | Applied Anthropology Laboratories | Research profile
Kevin is Director of the Applied Anthropology Laboratories (#LearnWorkDiscover), which provides 10,000 hours of hands-on learning annually. His research focuses on the Midwest, especially Late Prehist...
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November 21, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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Not going to make a habit of it, but #WhatIsItWednesday from the Applied Anthropology Laboratories. Found this summer during a metal detector survey. #archaeology #CRMArch #LearnWorkDiscover 🧪
A glossy blue round object with a small <2mm central hole on white background, with metric scale. Edges are irregularly faceted. Side 1 A glossy blue round object with a small <2mm central hole on white background, with metric scale. Edges are irregularly faceted. Side 2
December 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Today was a 🌧 day, but we'll be back the rest of the week and the next three weeks! #LearnWorkDiscover #ChertChert #NationalHistoricPreservationAct
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Our student employees and staff archaeologists conducting shovel test survey in the Salamonie River State Forest, Indiana. Healthy Forest of deciduous trees surrounds a cluster of archaeologists.
May 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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The volume presents many good examples of #CollaborativeArchaeology that we hope many other scholars can learn from as we become the future of #Archaeology. #History #NativeAmericanHistory #AmericanHistory #LearnWorkDiscover 6/6
Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology
A collection of detailed case studies that emphasize partnerships with local and descendant communities to foster ethical, inclusive research practicesThis b...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Come see how we've been doing #LearnWorkDiscover at AAL with #HistoricPreservationFund support through the Indiana DNR Division of Historic Preservation & Archaeology! #Archaeology #ChertChert #historymatters
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A line of AAL student employees and staff marching into the woods at Salamonie River State Forest carrying their archaeology survey equipment. Three AAL student employees in the foreground working on a shovel test probe in the Salamonie River State Forest. There are two students wearing safety orange ball caps working to sieve excavated sediment through 1/4 inch hardware cloth mesh to facilitate artifact discovery. In the background two additional student employees can be seen working on another shovel test probe sample.
April 8, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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After lunch we made good progress on GPR survey and found several surface artifacts ranging from at least as old as the Late Archaic to the 19th century. #archaeology #geophysics #LearnWorkDiscover #communityengagement 3/5
Top to bottom: A biface fragment, likely Late Archaic age, 3 decorated pieces of whiteware, glazed stoneware, and the base of a large, unidentified vessel. There is a metric measuring tape on the right side for scale showing approximately 19 cm to 48 cm. A piece of handpainted fine ceramics (whiteware?) With a blue feather or petal design bordered by a dark red like at the rim (top of piece as viewed in this photo. The ceramic sherd is held in my left hand, resting on middle, ring, and pinky fingers. A small, milkglass button with four central holes. Resembles a dress shirt button. The white button is held in my left palm. Dupuytren contracture for scale. A so-called bird point, a tiny gray notched point missing the extreme ends of both base and tip. Point is held in my left hand, Dupuytren contracture for scale.
May 21, 2026 at 3:31 AM
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Just got the rest of the contributor copies! Putting notes in each, ready and sorted for delivery. #communityengagement #communityengagedscholarship #archaeology #publication #LearnWorkDiscover
Opened shipping box with packaged copies of "Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology", hot off the presses! "Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology" edited volume open to our chapter entitled "Engaging Communities Through Conflict" by Christine Thompson, Stacey Halfmoon, Nekole Alligood, Chief Glenna J. Wallace, William Tarrant, Norman Hildebrand, the late Chief Ethel Cook, Rhonda Hayworth, Tonya Tipton, Kristen M. Barry, and Kevin C. Nolan with contributions by Larry Heady, Diane Hunter, and Matthew Bussler. Me wearing my 2024 Myaamia Winter Gathering shirt and pj pants sitting on a couch, personalizing the contributor copies of "Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology" to distribute to coauthors.. All personalized copies of "Collaborative and Community-Engaged Archaeology", sorted and tagged for easy distribution to coauthors.
December 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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AAL #studentemployees work on all stages of these projects, including as coauthors on the technical reports & these published journal articles. #LearnWorkDiscover #ChertChert #WeFly #archaeology #HistoryMatters #WorkforceDevelopment 5/5
April 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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AAL #studentemployees earn unique, valuable job experience to help them gather credentials & experience that put them ahead of their peers when on the job market. #LearnWorkDiscover #CRMArch #Workforce Development 4/5
April 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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With projects like these, & #HistoricPreservationFund funding, AAL provides #experientiallearning for dozens of Ball State students. These experiences directly prepare students for #jobs and #careers in #CRMArch. #LearnWorkDiscover #WorkforceDevelopment 3/5
April 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Our staff & students addressed #preservation, documentation, & interpretation priorities for state agencies by conducting #archaeological and #geophysical surveys of >150 acres, defining 23 new sites, & reinvestigating 2 sites. #LearnWorkDiscover #ChertChert #HistoryMatters 2/5
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April 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Double #PublicationDay for AAL staff and #studentemployees! The latest Indiana Archaeology has 2 articles about #HistoricPreservationFund projects at Chain O' Lakes SP & Limberlost Swamp NP conducting identification surveys. #archaeology #LearnWorkDiscover 1/5
Cover of Indiana Archaeology volume 19(1) showing pictures from AAL surveys of Chain O' Lakes State Park and Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve. The top left shows an old picture of students in front of the former Mulberry School within Chain O' Lakes State Park, top right shows an Ohio Flint Ridge (Vanport) Hopewell bladelet recovered from Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve, bottom left shows a piece of clay tile from Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve, and the bottom right photo shows a selection of historic artifacts recovered from the Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve. First page of the article on the survey of Chain O' Lakes State Park listing authors Jacob Smith*, Hannah Ryker, Zoe Lawton*, Carson Wright*, Kevin C. Nolan, and Christine Thompson. * indicates contributor was a student at the time of writing. First page of the article on the survey of Limberlost Swamp Nature Preserve listing authors Carson Wright*, Hannah Ryker, Zoe Lawton*, Kevin C. Nolan, and Christine Thompson. * indicates contributor was a student at the time of writing.
April 6, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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and see the supplemental program descriptions here: github.com/.../TSAR%20C....
#CRMArch #Archaeology #History #LearnWorkDiscover #ExperientialLearning 2/2
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September 17, 2025 at 6:42 PM