Excavation at Kirilovka

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Excavation at Kirilovka

• Section 101

Leader Phuong Lam
Assistant Randi Nagahori
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OBJECTIVES OF THE EXCAVATION

• To create a detailed map of site which would
  include all the features, post holes and spatial
  distribution of activities at the site.
• Run subsurface tests to gather artifacts and
  analyze profiles in order to determine the
  functions of the features.

www.westernheritage.ca/Kirilovka20Showcase/kirilo
vk.html
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SURFACE SURVEYING

• Systematic way of surveying surfacegridding the
  surface to establish horizontal provenience.
• Gridding system makes it easier to locate the
  location of finds.

Stacy Kozakavich
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SUBSURFACE LEVELS

• FEATURES
• All features at Kirilovka were subsurface

• Trench/Midden
• Privy
• Cellar

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TRENCH /MIDDEN
Feature 42
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CELLAR
Feature 13
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PRIVY
Feature 22
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REFERENCES

• Banh, Paul and Colin Renfew, eds.
• 2000 Where? Survey and Excavation of Sites and
  Features. In Archaeology Theories and Methods.
  Pp. 71-116. New york, New York Thames and Hudson
  Inc.
• Western Heritage Services Inc.
• N.D. Rescue Excavation of the Kirilovka
  Doukhabor Village Site. Electronic document,
  http//www.westernheritage.ca/kirilovka20Showcase
  /kirilovk.html, accessed September 27, 2003.
• Kozakavich, Stacy
• 1998 A State of Change An Historical
  Archaeology of Doukhobor Identity at Kirilovka
  Village Site (FcNs-1). M.A. thesis, Department
  of Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan.
• (Chapter 5 Archaeology at Kirilovka Methods
  and Result pp. 86-120s, Chapter 6 Artifact
  Analysis pp. 121-160.)