{"id":46699,"date":"2017-07-18T09:26:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=46699"},"modified":"2017-07-18T09:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T13:28:06","slug":"springfield-news-sun-story-wright-state-students-uncover-buried-clark-county-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/18\/springfield-news-sun-story-wright-state-students-uncover-buried-clark-county-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Springfield News-Sun story: Wright State students uncover buried Clark County history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46209\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/06\/piqua-dig-foundation-19091_068-2-508x339.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/>Wright State University students are digging up history in George Rogers Clark Park to piece together what happened at the Battle of Piqua.<\/p>\n<p>The students are enrolled in field school, a six-week archaeological dig that has focused on the Clark County historical site for the last two years. Led by Professor Lance Greene, students are looking for artifacts from the Shawnee village that once lived on the land and the battle that happened between the Native Americans and settlers during the Revolutionary War in 1780.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a really important site in not only Native American history and Ohio history but in American history,\u201d Greene said. \u201c\u2026There are some accounts of what happened during the battle, but we don\u2019t know a lot about the details of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Students spent multiple weeks collecting artifacts at the park. Now they\u2019ll work in the lab to clean and package them and see what can be learned from each item.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusket balls, gun parts, things like that,\u201d Greene said. \u201cWe want to reconstruct what happened on the battle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study of the artifacts will determine in more detail how many people were involved in the battle, what kinds of weapons they used and the specific location where the battle occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springfieldnewssun.com\/news\/local-education\/wright-state-students-uncover-buried-clark-county-history\/5vg95bQtI9afTDtLy0blwO\/\">springfieldnewssun.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Wright State University students are digging up history in George Rogers Clark Park to piece together what happened at the Battle of Piqua. The students are enrolled in field school, a six-week archaeological dig that has focused on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/07\/18\/springfield-news-sun-story-wright-state-students-uncover-buried-clark-county-history\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":46206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46702,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions\/46702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}