Archeologists in the US are giving a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last look before a historical park is built to commemorate the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people who once called it home.
Braving sweltering heat, a team of about 20 graduate students enrolled in a master’s program at the University of Massachusetts Boston began excavating an undeveloped lot on Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts, this week.
The National Historic Landmark site — which contains the first cemetery used by the Pilgrims after they arrived from England in 1620 and was a Wampanoag village for thousands of years before that