YSU Anthropology and Archaeology students participate in West Virginia Archaeology Day

For the second year in a row, Youngstown State University Anthropology and Archaeology students were invited to participate in West Virginia Archaeology Day at the Grave Creek Mound and Museum in Moundsville, West Virgina. Grave Creek is the repository for all of West Virginia's archaeology collections.

Associate Professor Matt O’Masky and Anthropology Instructor Thomas Delvaux and 10 students made the trip. They engaged with several hundred visitors to their display highlighting YSU archaeology and the students worked in the archaeology lab washing artifacts, bones and curating artifacts with the state archaeologist.

Every October the complex holds a celebration in honor of West Virginia's Archaeology Day to host educational events such as flint-knapping demonstrations, museum scavenger hunts, atlatl throwing and artifactual displays.

YSU was one of only two schools to participate in Grave Creek Mound and Museum's archaeology day.