“Finds and Methods at the University of Wyoming Field School 2022”
by
Haley Bjorklund, Student at University of California Davis
and
“Pont de Bonn Field School”
by
Marlena Billings, University of California Davis Student

Saturday, January 14, 2023
2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. PST

“Finds and Methods at the University of Wyoming Field School 2022”
by
Haley Bjorklund, Student at University of California Davis

The La Prele Mammoth site, dating to about 13,000 cal BP is being excavated through the University of Wyoming. It was briefly excavated in the 1980s and then field schools were organized beginning in 2014. Haley attended this field school during 2022 and will discuss her field school experience at La Prele. She will also relate it to Clovis big game hunting.
Haley Bjorklund is an undergraduate student at University of California Davis majoring in Anthropology. She has interned in the Arctic Archaeology lab at UC Davis, working on collections from Greenland and Alaska.

“Pont de Bonn Field School”
by
Marlena Billings, University of California Davis Student

Pont de Bonn (Commune de Modave) is an excavation site in Belgium. The site of ‘Le vieux chateau’ is located on a cliff and shows evidence of pre-Roman occupation that could correspond to the mysterious oppidum of tribe Condruze (which gave their name to the region, ‘le Condroz’) described by Julius Cesar. The site also show later phase of medieval occupations on the defense wall and on the plateau, with a chapel dating back to the Merovingian dynasties. Marlena will talk about the history of the area and discuss her experience at the Pont de Bonn field school.
Marlena is an undergraduate in Anthropology at University of California Davis. She has been an intern at the UCD Center for Experimental Archaeology and focused on experimenting with the production process for rondelles. This research took her to France where she had access to museum artifacts and collected high resolution images of rondelles to continue her research. Sacramental Archeological Society, Inc. provided her with a scholarship in 2021 to support this work. Attendance at the Pont de Bonn field school expands her archaeological experiences.