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