Digging Arlington History, Archaeology and Artifacts
What is Archaeology?
Dead people and Trash
What do archaeologists really do?
Archaeologists Dig
Excavation
Archaeologists DO NOT: Study dinosaurs Just pick up artifacts Buy or sell artifacts
Study of things people left behind to learn about the past. What is archaeology? Material Culture
What is an artifact? Anything made or modified by people
What do archaeologists find? Artifacts –Stone –Bone –Pottery –Shell Beads –Wood (very rare) –Metal –Glass
Why are things missing?
They rot!
Arlington Archaeology
Native Americans Wampanoag Prehistoric –point of view Turtle Island
The Massachuset Menotomy
Arrowheads Projectile points
Wampum
Fishing
Alewife
Would these survive ?
Experimental Archaeology
Artifacts = Time Lines April 19, 1775 Lexington Green
April 19, 1775 Concord Road Jason Russell House "... the bloodiest half-mile of all the Battle Road." What artifacts ?
Spy Pond Ice Sent to Boston for shipment via ship to Caribbean Artifacts?
Minuteman Bikeway Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad Artifacts?
Where would you find Native American artifacts
SEE YOU IN MAY