Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982

Part of: US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District VCP

The excavation of Biface III Site 12MI18 took place from June 9th to July 7th 1982. The Ball State University Archaeological Field School, under the direction of Dr. B.K. Swartz, conducted the excavation. Undergraduate students Mary Lou James, Dawn E. Pepper, Carl D. Ebbert, Walter Brumfield, Jo Goldberg, Julia Washbum, and Barbara Lumbis conducted the fieldwork. The investigation was conducted in Miami County, Indiana. A previous surface collection was conducted in 1981 by William R. Wepler and Donald R. Cochran (James and Ebbert, N.D.).

There are field records dating from the 1981 surface collection in the archives, hence why the investigation name has the date ranges 1981–1982. However, the 1981 artifacts are not a part of this collection.

The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact photographs, artifact report, finding aid, oversized material spreadsheet and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include accession file, additional artifact photographs, artifact care/methodology, artifact sketches, document folder listings, excavation unit summary records, field catalogue records, field notes, drafts of field reports, initial data sheet, letters of correspondence, maps, maps of trench orientation and location, oversized material labels, photographic material excel spreadsheet, project objectives, project proposals, records removal sheet, slide labels, stratigraphy records, and a thesis related to the archaeological site. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

Site Name Keywords
12MI221 • 12MI222 • 12MI18 • 12WB28 • 12MI11 • 12MI13 • 12HU370 • 12WB120 • 12MI15 • 12MI16

Other Keywords
Collections Management • Graver • Projectile Point • Lithic • Hammerstone • Body Sherd • Insulator • Chain • Wire • Hinge

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing • Historic Background Research • Heritage Management

Material Types
Metal • Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Glass • Ground Stone • Building Materials • Shell • Fauna • Mineral • Plastic

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • Indiana (State / Territory) • Wabash County (County) • Miami County (County) • North America (Continent) • Miami (County) • Wabash (County) • Huntington (County) • Mississinewa Reservoir • Mississinewa Reservoir Drainage

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-13 of 13)

Documents
  • Artifact Report, Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward Whitsell.

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Louisville District archaeological collections were sent to the Veterans Curation Program’s (VCP) St. Louis laboratory in May 2011. The VCP St. Louis laboratory is a USACE, St. Louis District’s Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections program, which is staffed through Brockington and Associates, Inc., an archaeological contract firm located in Norcross, Georgia. The procedures employed to re-house the...

  • Finding Aid, Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Steve Wahle.

    This collection is referred to as “Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is three and a quarter (3.25) linear inches. There are several oversized maps and oversized artifact sketch figures contained in the collection. In addition, one color photographic slide of a rocky area of the site is included. These materials were moved to the appropriate...

Images Datasets Projects
  • Field School at the Biface III Site (12MI18) 1981-1982
    PROJECT B. K. Swartz, Jr.. US Army Corps of Engineers, Louisville District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

    The Biface III Site (12MI18) was investigated under the leadership of Dr. B.K. Swartz, Jr. This investigation was conducted under permit number DACW-27-3-82-17. A final report draft, authored by Mary Lou James and Carl D. Ebbert, is present in the collection. From June 9th to July 7th of 1982, the sixteenth Annual Ball State University Archaeological Field School excavated the Biface III Site located near Peru, Indiana in the Mississinewa Reservoir drainage. This field work was carried out by...