Would the investigations at Roanoke exploring the 16th century "America's First Science Center" by Noel Hume qualify? 

  

Silas Hurry 

HSMC 



  

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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 

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)   
  
I will also forward any responses about this on the listserv to him. 
  
Mike Polk 
  
  
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