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Pastimes : Archaeology
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To: Neeka who wrote (588)7/8/2011 2:15:44 PM
From: Zakrosian  Read Replies (2) of 7903
 
I took a field course in college; we were excavating a large Indian village on the Potomac that had previously been dug by the University of Michigan in the 20's. The director figured we'd get our training on a site where we couldn't do much damage.

First day out, we learned that there was a lot of material that had been missed. Also, the UM excavation hadn't cross-sectioned post molds, so there was a lot of info regarding the town's structures that we could recover.

This site had been farmed for almost 50 years. Nevertheless, we came across a pristine clay pipe - probably colonial, about 250 years old. Survived the plowing, etc. One of the students sat on it and completely crushed it.
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