Ron and all,

I do certainly consider the military an institution, but for my current
project, I'm setting aside military sites other than military schools,
prisons, etc.  The literature on military archaeology is vast, and
others are much better prepared than I to do it justice!

Lu Ann De Cunzo

Ron May wrote:
>
> I am not sure if you would count military archaeology as social
> institutions, but if so, I have excavated an early 20th century U.S.
> Army site (CA-SDI-12000). The feature was a burned building and the
> entire contents scooped up from the original location around 1916-1918
> and dumped at a secondary location (where I was digging down toward an
> earlier 19th century whaling station and 18th century Spanish cannon
> battery). All the artifacts have been analyzed and most box
> inventoried, but none have been quantified for a report. We had both
> private residential, as well as institutional material in the deposit.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.