Also, Jamestown had the first "tryals" of "yron" in the New World setting the stage for the American iron industry. Also, various scientific apparatus bits and pieces have been recovered there in the excavations.

Lyle Browning, RPA


On Feb 8, 2012, at 10:05 PM, Kate and Silas wrote:

> Would the investigations at Roanoke exploring the 16th century "America's First Science Center" by Noel Hume qualify? 
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> Silas Hurry 
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> From: SAGEB @AOL.COM 
> To: HISTARCH @ ASU . EDU 
> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2012 1:19:12 PM 
> Subject: Request for information on research of scientific facilities 
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> Mike Schiffer has asked me to forward an interesting request for him   
> relating to historic archaeology work.  Any thoughts would be greatly   
> appreciated. His email is:       _ schifferma @ gmail .com_ ( mailto : schifferma @ gmail .com)   
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> I will also forward any responses about this on the listserv to him. 
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> Mike Polk 
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> Dear Colleague: 
> I am currently working on a new project that seeks to pull  together 
> archaeological studies of people, places, and organizations  where 
> scientific activities were (or are) conducted.  This  includes 
> ethnoarchaeology of laboratories (like Latour's famous study of  the 
> Salk Institute), and excavation of sites and surveys of regions  (such 
> as Beck's study of the Nevada Test Site). I have found that this  topic is 
> difficult to research,  but I suspect that historical archaeologists would 
> be most likely to have conducted, or know of, such  projects. 
> I hope you can help me by giving me directions to (or pdfs  of) 
> relevant archaeological reports or even dim recollections of a  project you 
> once heard about in a  bar. 
> Thank you in advance for any help that you can  provide. 
> Sincerely, 
> Mike 
> Michael Brian Schiffer 
> School of Anthropology 
> University of Arizona