This week, Team Paleo finished up one project and assisted with another.
The team has been working on sorting, photographing, and organizing the museum type collection for many months. During the last two weeks, they organized a large collection of lithic points and other objects donated by another local museum. Each piece needed to find a home in the large type collection.
Later in the day, Team Paleo got to offer a small help to a large project. Dickson Mounds has been adding an exhibition of Illinois life in the early 1800's, so the team got to unpack some of the artifacts that will be displayed. Instead of stone arrow points and earthen clay jars, the collection included steel knives and blue porcelain transferware.
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| Sorting lithic points by type and placing them in large wooden drawers for the type collection. |
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| A tiny number of the large lithic point collection to be sorted. |
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| There is always time for some jokes and laughter in the collections room... |
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| Our fearless leader, Dr. Michael Wiant, ponders lithic types. |
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| The Illinois in the 1800's collection- Carefully boxed up and ready to be displayed in the new exhibit. |
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| Early 1800's artifacts. Containers evolve from clay pots to glass and porcelain. |
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| Team Paleo volunteer, Ronan, unpacks a box of interesting artifacts. |
