With great sadness, we say goodbye to long-time Iowa archaeologist and friend, Toby Morrow. Condolen
With great sadness, we say goodbye to long-time Iowa archaeologist and friend, Toby Morrow. Condolences to Toby’s family, his co-workers at Wapsi Valley Archaeology in Anamosa, and his friends and colleagues near and far. There will be a memorial for Toby at the spring meeting of the Iowa Archeological Society next year - details forthcoming. Toby received his BA and MA from the University of Iowa, and passed his qualifying exams and completed coursework for a PhD at the University of Wisconsin. He worked as a project archaeologist for the General Contracts Program (GCP) of the University of Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist from 1992 to 1999, working first for Fred Finney and then John Doershuk. Toby successfully completed many CRM archaeology projects large and small as well as several important research projects. Toby’s largest GCP project was the data recovery excavation of 13WD88, the Cowan site, located just outside of Sioux City, Iowa. Cowan is a Great Oasis culture site dating to ca A.D. 1000 which yielded dozens of storage and refuse pits including one Toby excavated that he found contained a remarkable accumulation of carbonized corn kernels. This evidence helped establish that Great Oasis people were active corn farmers. Toby managed the field crew at Cowan, leading 24 archaeologists in a 3 month campaign and then transitioned to the lab and developing the technical report which ultimately was published in the OSA Report series. Toby left the OSA to move to Arkansas and pursue archaeological work there. Not to be overlooked is Toby’s talent for archaeological illustration. His illustrations can be found in publications and exhibits across the country - mostly uncredited. #iowa #archaeology https://www.instagram.com/p/BqFeixzBt1t/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=10i68df6yppzk -- source link
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