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Ranger: This field school is at a historic archeology site that dates to the 1920s

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We have eight local high school students from
the Matanuska Susiitna Valley

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who are helping us test the site to try and
find out a little better the dates that the

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site was occupied.

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And they're doing this by digging fifty by
fifty centimeter tests, and recording artifacts

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and soils that they dig.

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Mainly based on the artifacts that they find
we going to date the site based on the age

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of the artifacts.

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It's a great way to share the history of this
town with the kids who live here

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and hopefully get them interested in their
own history, and then in archeology.

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Student: The first day was harder cause
of the roots in the top layer.

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Now we're starting to get into the good stuff.

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Today we found a three-inch, four-inch medicine bottle that had iron pills or something in it.

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And we found an old universal auto light lamp
that would have been hooked on a miner's helmet.

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Student: We found some bone mainly.
Like a little bone, about that size.

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And we found a mandible, which is a jaw, and
it has some like teeth in it.

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And we found some charcoal pieces, which is
about the same layer.

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So I'm assuming it was either burnt, or barbecued.

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Ranger: Now this is a wall, the area that they
excavated. So you have a top and a base.

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And the next thing you do, you draw in all
of the different layers, right, the stratums.

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One of the charges of the park is to preserve
the archeological resources for future generations.

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And the best way to do that is by having kids
learn about it and be interested in it.

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So then they can learn to be stewards of these resources.