The Current Interpretation

Of The Binette Rock Shelter

WASHINGTON — The next program in the Litchfield Hills Archaeology Club Lecture Series at the Institute for American Indian Studies will be “Old Artifacts, New Ideas: The Current Interpretation of the Binette Site Rock Shelter.”

David H. Thompson, a professional archaeologist who earned his MA in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania, will offer the program on Sunday, March 14, at 3 pm.

The Binette site is a rock overhang in Naugatuck that was occupied for more than 10,000 years, from Paleo-Indian times to the Colonial period. Mr Thompson will focus his talk on the shelter’s late Archaic Laurention (Vosburg) component, to discuss how tool analysis can provide information on human activities at Binette.

Mr Thompson is the retired president of the Greater New Haven Archaeological Society and has directed numerous archaeological excavations in Connecticut, including several in Litchfield County when he was affiliated with The Gunnery in Washington. He has participated in excavations throughout the United States and Mexico.

Admission is $5, free for LHAC members. IAIS is at 38 Curtis Road; call 860-868-0518 for directions or additional information.