Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

This blog includes updates from the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project sponsored by Western Michigan University in partnership with the City of Niles, the Fort St. Joseph Museum, Support the Fort, Inc. and other community groups. The Project is dedicated to archaeological research, education, community service learning, and intensive public outreach. The Principal investigator of the Project is Dr. Michael Nassaney.

Monday, August 28, 2023

...fort residents had window glass?

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Hi everyone,           During the open house, I found that a lot of people were interested in how the glass, specifically window pane fragme...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Did someone say ceramics...?

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Hello,  During our last week of excavation, Hollie and I had some cool finds in our unit, N10 E3, a couple of which were ceramic sherds. Bot...

Fin. The end.

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A letter to all the Fort Followers, August 11th marked the final day of the WMU field school excavation work at Fort St. Joseph. Everyone ha...

Fabulous Features

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Hey Fort Followers, This field season has brought countless findings, including two new features identified in me and my unit partner’s very...

What can green glass tell us?

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Hi there, Near the end of the dig, my unit partner Kieran found a shard of glass near the southwest corner of our unit around 34 cm below da...
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

What’s that? A bone? No, it’s just mudstone

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Fort Followers, A common occurrence here at the Fort St. Joseph field school is uncovering mudstone. Due to mudstone’s non-uniform shape, st...

An unforgettable weekend!

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Hey there guys,           Last weekend we celebrated twenty five years of archeology at the site and held the annual FSJAP open house! It wa...
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