For two semesters, I cataloged and organized materials from the Charles Lacer collection. Lacer was a local amateur archaeologist who conducted his own excavations during the early 1960s. Much of his extensive collection is housed in the archaeology lab at USI, and Dr. Strezewski has been in the process of sorting and cataloging the thousands of artifacts in order to develop an inventory of the collection’s contents. To help with this undertaking, I studied artifacts from the Murphy Site, located at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers, in Posey County. Past research on this site has been mostly limited to the Caborn-Welborn occupations, which took place during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. My research focused on an earlier occupation possibly dating back to the late Early Woodland and early Middle Woodland periods, circa 200 B.C. After cataloging the artifacts, I studied the skeletal remains in an effort to determine the age and sex of the individuals. My goal was to piece together which grave goods were buried with which individuals. Another goal was to ascertain when these early occupations took place. In order to determine the age of this earlier occupation, five carbon dates were submitted. Two of the dates indicated an Early Woodland occupation around 400 B.C. (late Early Woodland). These dates were run on the remains of burned food found inside two potsherds. Two others, run on an animal canine tooth and a drilled piece of antler, showed a second occupation around 200 B.C. (also Late Early Woodland). We believe that the burials likely date to this second occupation. The fifth date, run on an antler tool, indicated a date of circa A.D. 1550 and is therefore part of the Caborn-Welborn occupation of the site.