Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976

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

Archaeological investigations were conducted by Ball State University at the Troyer Site (12WB116) under the direction of principal investigator B.K. Swartz, Jr. The field work consisted primarily of excavations performed as part of a field school, which ran during the summers of 1975 and 1976. The Troyer Site is located in Wabash County, Indiana near the Mississinewa Reservoir. The purpose of the field work was to locate the site of the Battle of Mississinewa (December 17 and 18, 1812) and Miami village sites within the Mississinewa Reservoir area, particularly the village of Miami leaders Metocina and Meshingomesia (Lewis 1976). One artifact from another site, 12HU663, was found with this investigation. For more information on what was done with this artifact see the “Sorting and Re-housing” section.

The digital materials in this collection were processed by the Veterans Curation Program (VCP), and include the artifact database, artifact report, select artifact photographs, finding aid, and scanned asset key. Additional digital materials held by the VCP include additional artifact photographs, box labels, document folder listing, excavation photos, field catalog records, field notes, initial data sheets, notes, other notes, photographic material spreadsheet, photo record sheets, records removal sheet, site inventory, site survey sheets, and a slide label. For additional information on these materials, refer to the Finding Aid.

Site Name Keywords
12WB116 • 12HU663

Other Keywords
Collections Management • Plastic • Lithic • Sediment • Button • Botanical • Pendant • Antler • Fossil • Body Sherd

Culture Keywords
Historic • Historic Native American

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

Material Types
Ceramic • Fauna • Glass • Metal • Building Materials • Macrobotanical • Mineral • Shell

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

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-11 of 11)

Documents
  • Artifact Report, Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Victor Plancarte. Crystal Soto.

    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 St. Louis VCP 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, GA. The procedures employed to re-house the...

  • Finding Aid, Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976 (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Victor Plancarte.

    This collection is referred to as "Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976.” This name is consistent throughout the finding aid, the file folders, and the box labels. The extent of this collection is five and one quarter (5.25) linear inches. The material was originally housed within a bag labeled “12WB21 (116) Field School, 89F” and two artifact project boxes. There are various types of documents contained within this collection, including both paper and photographic materials....

Images Datasets
  • Artifact Database, Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976 (2012)
    DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

    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 St. Louis VCP 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, GA. The procedures employed to re-house the...

  • Scanned Asset Key, Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976 (2012)
    DATASET Victor Plancarte.

    This is the scanned asset key for the Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976 collection stored at the Applied Archaeology Laboratories, Ball State University.

Projects
  • Field School at the Troyer Site (12WB116) 1975-1976
    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.

    Archaeological investigations were conducted by Ball State University at the Troyer Site (12WB116) under the direction of principal investigator B.K. Swartz, Jr. The field work consisted primarily of excavations performed as part of a field school, which ran during the summers of 1975 and 1976. The Troyer Site is located in Wabash County, Indiana near the Mississinewa Reservoir. The purpose of the field work was to locate the site of the Battle of Mississinewa (December 17 and 18, 1812) and...