Sunday, July 10, 2016

Archaeologist Vincent Versluis releases extensive report on site of Abken Airport

On June 29, 2015, Vincent Versluis, of Great Rivers Archaeological Services in Burlington, Kentucky, released a 178-page report on excavations conducted on the site of the former Abken Airport, as preliminary work for the proposed improvements at the Ashland Regional Airport in Greenup County, Kentucky.

The report is enhanced by numerous photographs, maps, diagrams and tables.  Certain photographs depict artifacts discovered on the Abken site during the excavations: prehistoric projectile point fragments and historic artifacts including cartridge cases, marbles, a die, a 1947 penny, buttons, fragments of whiteware and a glass bottle as well as a Hubley metal diecast toy replica of  a Navy jet fighter with folding wings, originally painted red and silver, produced during the 1950's.  One of the tables documents the chain of ownership of the property from 1857 to the present.

Great Rivers Archaeological Services was founded in 1998 by Vincent Versluis (M.A. Anthropology) and serves as Principal Investigator on all Phase I, II and III archaeological projects. Versluis, who is a member of the Register of Professional Archaeologists, has over 30 years of archaeological field and laboratory experience. Versluis has been involved in archaeological surveys and excavations in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, as well as in Belize and Mexico. 

This document, Phase II of Archaeological Testing of Site 15GP326 for Proposed Airport Improvements at the Ashland Regional Airport in Greenup County, Kentucky, in PDF format, has been archived online at Dropbox.com and be accessed without charge.






No comments:

Post a Comment