Edmonds Community College and Everett Community College are giving people a chance to participate in an archeological dig in the area.
The colleges will be doing the dig in Mukilteo's Japanese Gulch as part of a summer class. Instructors and students will be working at the site where Japanese workers at Mukilteo Lumber Mills lived in the early part of the 20th century. The site and numerous artifacts were found by crews installing a fish passage and working on restoring Japanese Gulch Creek.
The two colleges are partnering with the city of Mukilteo in the project, which will help create an archeology and anthropology field training program at the site. Students will be learning about human ecology and archeology in a classroom setting, then go to Japanese Gulch collect, clean, analyze and document artifacts found at the settlement location.
Instructors from both colleges are excited about the project.
“This is a unique, hands-on learning experience for students. We’re fortunate that our partnerships give us the resources to expand the reach of intensive service-learning projects and to bring this opportunity to more students,” said Dr. Thomas Murphy, founder of Edmonds Community College’s Learn and Serve Environmental Anthropology Field (LEAF) School, in a statement.
“When my colleague, Thomas Murphy, approached me about this project I knew it was something many EvCC students would leap to join. Students who want to become archaeologists and others fascinated with how archeology teaches us about ourselves have been excited to hear about this project ” said Cynthia Clarke, anthropology instructor at Everett Community College.
Students from both Edmonds and Everett will act as crew chiefs and peer mentors for the dig.
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