Summary Of Nature Valley Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares

Examining excavated artifacts can tell researchers a lot about the people who left them behind. The artifacts can hint at characteristics such as how people lived, what time period they were from, what they ate, and how their families were structured. The identification of the three bags of artifacts was completed by utilizing artifacts that helped to infer the time period it was from.
Bag one contained seven artifacts that were dug up in Missouri. The items included were a tab from a can, a broken plastic microwave meal container, a broken jar, a plastic bottle opener, a scoop like those used for coffee or sugar, the top part of a box of oatmeal squares, and the cap to what looks like a bottle of deodorant. The oatmeal squares box flap that was in the first bag was made out of cardboard and had yellow, green, blue, and red coloring on it. The text on it read "Nature Valley Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares," "Cinnamon Brown Sugar," "to

The piece selected to be analyzed has color variations ranging from light to dark brown. Small pieces can easily be flaked off with light handling, showing that it is not very durable. There was visible cracking throughout the piece and, in one place, half of the wood was missing which revealed the inner part of the artifact. This artifact was likely used for the construction of various everyday items, such as baskets, tools, weapons, and other equipment. It could also have been a part of the Native Americans' diet or had medicinal purposes.

The third bag may have come from level D in the stratigraphic profile. This is because the artifacts in bag three were the oldest out of the bags. Because of the fact that most Native Americans were forcibly removed from Missouri when certain treaties were passed, the date of these Native American artifacts is likely prior to the 1800s. The relative date of these artifacts can be estimated to be from 7,000 to 1800