A Graduate Students Experience with Osteological Analysis of Revolutionary War Soldiers' Feet:
Topic discussed at Easton Library
Please join us on Saturday, November 13 at 1 PM at the Easton Library to step back in time- what can we learn from our feet? Alexandra DeCarlo will discuss the abstract from her master's thesis.
In 2019, an unmarked burial ground was discovered in the town of Lake George, NY. Under the leadership of the Bioarcheology department at the New York State Museum, numerous interments were excavated. A few of the remains had been bisected, leaving only their lower limbs. Additionally, many of the remains were commingled within a large mound of dirt. Upon analysis, the remains recovered from the Courtland Street site were determined to be associated with the Revolutionary War and the early Battle of Quebec in 1775. Due to the state of the remains, it was only possible to focus an analysis on one aspect of the skeleton. Therefore, the subject of this thesis was to investigate the foot morphology of this group as a whole and to see if, and how, soldier's feet were affected by their involvement in the Revolutionary War.
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Lexie is a recent graduate from the University at Albany with an MA in anthropology and she currently works as a Field Archeologist at Hartgen Associates in Rensselaer. Her main interest in anthropology is bioarcheology. Additionally, for the past few years she has volunteered and interned at the New York State Museum. While interning at the museum, she was fortunate enough to be able to work with the remains from the Courtland Street site, located in Lake George, for her master's thesis.
This program will be of special interest to history buffs of the Revolutionary War, or anyone interested in bones. Come and find out what Lexie discovered in her research that specifically pertained to the feet of the individuals from this site.
Easton Library is located at 1074 State Route 40 in Greenwich. Please call 518-692-2253 with questions. The library is handicapped accessible.
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