by Amy Simpson | Nov 14, 2019 | Archaeology, Consumption, GIS, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Uncategorized
Featured Fragment – HumunGIS Importance of GIS By D. Brad Hatch and Emily Calhoun Since this past Wednesday (November 13, 2019) was Geographic Information System (GIS) Day, we’ve decided to dedicate this week’s blog to highlighting how archaeologists use GIS as a tool...
by Amy Simpson | Aug 22, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Brick Foundation, Central Chimney, Civil War, Creamware, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Entertainment, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stoneware
This month celebrates our 50th blog post and in honor of this anniversary we will be revisiting our top three most-popular blogs. To see which blogs made the cut, please follow the links below. To date, our most popular blog, reaching almost 7,000 people on Facebook...
by Amy Simpson | Apr 26, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Glass, Household, Nineteenth Century
By Kerry Gonzalez Continuing our blog series on artifacts recovered from our Riverfront Park excavations in Fredericksburg, we would like to highlight the wine bottle seal pictured below. Marking wine bottles with personalized seals were done near the end of the...
by Amy Simpson | Mar 29, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century
Music To Our Ears Mouths: A Jaw Harp Found in Fredericksburg By: Kerry Gonzalez This month’s blog will continue our series on Dovetail’s recent excavations at the Riverfront Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia where over 10,000 artifacts were recovered. Many of these...
by Amy Simpson | Feb 15, 2019 | Aquia Sandstone, Archaeology, Artifact, Brick Foundation, Central Chimney, Eighteenth Century, Eighteenth-century dwelling, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg Riverfront Park, Household, Nineteenth Century
By Kerri Barile One of the most exciting finds on an archaeological site are the remains of a building or structure—evidence of people modifying their natural world to create a controlled space. Whether it is a dwelling, store, barn, or other building, the activity of...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 25, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Household, Nineteenth Century, Stafford County, Stoneware
By Reagan Andersen In this month’s blog, we are highlighting a whiteware basin with a flow blue Scinde pattern from the mid-nineteenth century. The object was brought to the Dovetail lab by a curious owner from Stafford County. The vessel had once been broken into...