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Category Archives: Chesapeake Bay: The Cultural Landscape of a New Beginning 2009

Chesapeake Bay: Digging Last Day!

Allie, Taylor, Achal, Kenyatta   Today was our last day at the archaeological digging site. Yesterday, our group finished our first test site and began to take off the top “plow-zone” layer of a new, second test site. Today, we completely finished excavating the articles, in addition to alternating terns cleaning the articles as well. [...]

Chesapeake Bay: Shoveling, Searching, and Sorting

Swati, Ricardo, Scott, Gina   We went through the soil at Newington, VA in hope of discovering clues to our past. Picking up from where we left yesterday, our group dug deeper into our test site to find artifacts such as several varieties of pottery, tools, possessions, and other items. From glass pieces to paint [...]

Chesapeake Bay: Students Dig Artifacts!

Andrew, Colin, Brianna, Zunera It was an early Tuesday morning, our bodies tired but our minds eager. We left the campsite at approximately 7:40 a.m. We met Mr. Luccketti, the senior archeologist, and drove to Carter Braxton’s old estate in Newington, VA. Carter Braxton was a signer on the Declaration of Independence. A long rocky [...]

Chesapeake Bay: One Day, Two Sites, Three Cultures

Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg   We started off the day by going to Jamestown. First, we visited the Native American’s village. There we saw how they used the natural resources around them to survive. Then we visited the replicas of the first three ships that come to the Jamestown settlement. While there we took a [...]

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