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Gertrude Behrick

Cook Gertrude Behrick serves up another good dinner for the Angel Mounds crew.  Not only was Gertrude the camp cook, but she also helped out in the field laboratory.  

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Ida Black

Ida Black was wife to Indiana’s first archaeologist, and our Laboratory’s namesake, Glenn A. Black. She was a woman completely and wholeheartedly devoted to her husband. Glenn and Ida Black were formally married in Indianapolis on the 27th of October 1931. Ida, with her interest in archaeology, followed Glenn in the summer of 1934 to eastern Indiana and the excavation of Nowlin Mound in Dearborn County. Nowlin Mound (12D0007) was one of the largest prehistoric burial mounds in the state of Indiana. After the Nowlin Mound expedition ended in 1935, Ida did not do much of the archaeological work, rather she left that to her husband Glenn. The couple moved to Evansville, Indiana in the late 1930s in order to oversee the archaeological development of Angel Mounds. Beginning in 1945 and lasting twenty-six years, Ida was a fixture at Angel Mounds and was often seen around the grounds, as seen in the pictures taken throughout the decades. Tending to Angel Mounds was not her only activity; Ida Black was also co-found of the Evansville Lapidary Society in 1953. Ida May Black passed away February 1, 1972, seven and a half years after her beloved husband.

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Elizabeth Brockschlager

Elizabeth Brockschlager, a member of the 1951 Angel Mounds crew, removes a level in S-11-D at Angel Mounds. As opposed to contemporary excavations, Brockschlager’s preference to wear a dress while digging was not unusual.

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Jane Kellar

Jane Kellar, wife of James H. Kellar (the future director of Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology), was a crew member at Angel Mounds in 1950. She can be seen here digging, however, at the time of this photograph, she is approximately five months pregnant with Jana Kellar. Fellow crew member, Clarence Webb, wrote that despite Jane’s pregnancy, she “worked as hard as any of us.”

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Ann Leist

Ann Liest was a member of the 1951 Angel Mounds crew. Here, she is casually sitting on a porch during a trip to Varner Mounds in Spencer County. 

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Frances P. Martin

Frances Louise Patton Martin was an avocational archaeologist who occasionally worked with Glenn Black at Angel Mounds beginning in the 1940s and travelled to other sites around Indiana and the greater Midwest.  Though Frances graduated from Butler University in 1938 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, she and her husband George were not formally trained or educated in archaeology. The couple were avid travellers and often took pictures of their ventures. Several hundred slides were donated to the Angel Mounds Historical Site archives detailing Frances and George’s trips. Frances can be seen in photographs from working at Angel as early as 1945, though this was not the only site the couple visited. Frances is in pictures at Branchville Rockshelter in 1950, as well as Raaf Mound (better known as Crib Mound) and Yankeetown in 1951.

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Cheryl Munson

Cheryl Munson started with the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology in 1971 and is a member of the archeology research faculty at Indiana University.

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June Nettleship

A member of the Angel Mounds crew in 1950, June Nettleship is depicted here painting in the lab at Angel Mounds for an animation of Shell Mound. It is possible that this work was featured in an educational film on prehistoric archaeology that was produced by Indiana University in 1951.

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Melody Pope

Current Curator of Collections at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology. Melody was a student studying at Indiana University in the 1980s and worked at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology early in her archaeological career.

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April Sievert

Current Director of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology and Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology Department at IU

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Elizabeth Watts Malouchos

Current Research Scientist on staff at the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology. Before starting her doctorate program at Indiana University, she got her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and has worked throughout the Midwest, Alaska, and Greece.

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