José Manuel Rodríguez Hidalgo, arqueólogo de la Consejería de Cultura y otrora director del conjunto arqueológico de Itálica, enclavado en Santiponce (Sevilla)
A historic archaeological site on the shore of the Grand River in Ottawa County’s Crockery Township may contain the largest collection of Upper Great Lakes cache pits ever excavated.
[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] Nora McGreevy (Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2021) writes that archaeologists conducting excavations on the Dutch island of Sint Eustatius have discovered 48 skeletons to date. By some estimates, European merchants transported more than four million enslaved Africans to the Caribbean islands between the 16th and…
William J. Kole June 09, 2021 - 10:08 PM
BOSTON (AP) â Archaeologists 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 masters 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 â 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 â has been poked and prodded numerous times over the past century.
Archaeologists dig hilltop over Plymouth Rock one last time
WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press
June 9, 2021
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1of12University of Massachusetts Boston graduate students Sean Fairweather, of Watertown, Mass., left, and Alex Patterson, of Quincy, Mass., right, use measuring instruments while mapping an excavation site, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, on Cole s Hill, in Plymouth, Mass. The archaeologists are part of a team excavating the grassy hilltop that overlooks iconic Plymouth Rock one last time before a historical park is built on the site.Steven Senne/APShow MoreShow Less
2of12University of Massachusetts Boston research scientist Christa Beranek, of Arlington, Mass., holds ceramic fragments estimated to be from the late 18th and early 19th centuries found at an excavation site, Wednesday, June 9, 2021, on Cole s Hill, in Plymouth, Mass. Beranek is part of a team of archaeologists excavating the grassy hilltop that overlooks iconic Plymouth Rock on