Getting her hands dirty and having fun in the sun was only part of one Albion student’s summer experience with Archaeology. Heather Horobik, '06, spent two weeks this month digging into Nebraska’s past by participating in an archaeological dig with several University of Michigan students near the small town of Genoa.

Situated in Nance county, Genoa was once the site of the Pawnee reservation as well as the location of one of the many boarding schools set up for Native Americans in the late 1800’s. Because of the county’s unique history, many historical and archaeological sites have been studied in the area. The archaeological team, led by Dan Pugh, a graduate student at the University of Michigan, spent much of the summer surveying and excavating a four-hundred year old Pawnee site.

“After taking my Prehistoric Archaeology class, I knew that the next step toward my career was learning to do the fieldwork,” Horobik, an anthropology and history major, explained why she chose to participate in this project. “My professor told us that there were just some things you cannot learn in the classroom and after being involved in the excavation process I can see just how true that statement really was.”

 

The archaeological team made a field trip to the old boarding school in Genoa.

 

 

 

 

 

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