Pillager Minn. Public Archaeology Dig

During the year-long cultural survey of the geographic area surrounding Camp Ripley in central Minnesota, Nienow Cultural Consultants partnered with Great River Greening to conduct a public archaeology dig along the Crow Wing River in Pillager, Minn. to determine its status as a potential archaeological site. Numerous important discoveries were made that day. I was along for the event and produced this short feature video documenting the day's process and exciting finds. View it here (above/below) or visit the video on NCC's YouTube channel.

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Pillager, Minn. Archaeology dig video


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CRSL Archaeology

For nearly a year, I was "embedded" with the archaeologists at Nienow Cultural Consultants as they conducted a Comprehensive Literature Review – basically a full survey of cultural, historical and archaeological features – in a federally-defined geographical buffer area surrounding the Camp Ripley military base in central Minnesota. My job was to document their work which included: discovering long forgotten "ghost towns"; conducting a public archaeology dig; interviewing local historians, etc. I went along for the ride with video camera and microphone recording it all. Check out some of the videos I created during the project.

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