Bard Archaeology Students Work on Excavation at Fisher Center’s Maya Lin Building Site, Reports the Daily Catch
Bard archeology students, under the direction of Archaeologist in Residence Christopher Lindner, have been working to unearth cultural clues about the past at a dig site where the new Maya Lin performing arts studio building will be built for the Fisher Center, writes Emily Sachar for the Daily Catch. Ahead of the building construction, the students hope to find artifacts of daily living that may have been used by the Lenape and Muhheakantuck (Mohican), the original stewards of the land where Bard College now resides. “The project is a demonstration of Bard’s commitment to protecting what we can of the Indigenous past,” Lindner, director of the summer Bard Archaeology Field School and Bard’s archaeologist in residence, told Sachar. “It’s a way of showing respect and doing what we can to learn before we have an impact on the land.”
Post Date: 05-09-2023
Post Date: 05-09-2023