by Amy Simpson | Dec 23, 2022 | Archaeology, Artifact, Fredericksburg, pottery, Uncategorized
By Elyse Adams, Dovetail Lab Manager In March 2022, Dovetail Cultural Resource Group (Dovetail) conducted archival research and a two-day archaeological excavation at 1416 Princess Anne Street in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia. These combined efforts shed light on...
by Amy Simpson | Nov 18, 2022 | Archaeology, Artifact, pottery, Uncategorized
From the Wolfe Neck Shell Midden Sitein Sussex County, Delaware By Bill Liebeknecht In advance of a proposed trail at Cape Henlopen State Park in Sussex County, Delaware, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control hired Dovetail Cultural...
by Amy Simpson | Feb 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Kerri S. Barile On February 22, 1936, over 3,000 people gathered on the banks of the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg and Stafford County, Virginia, to witness history. Former Major Leaguer Walter “Big Train” Johnson attempted to recreate George Washington’s...
by Amy Simpson | Jan 30, 2020 | Archaeology, Artifact, Civil War, Nineteenth Century, Uncategorized
By D. Brad Hatch This month’s post highlights an object recovered from a Civil War battlefield and campsite in Virginia. Rather than being associated with fighting, however, this object speaks to the daily lives of soldiers during the war. The object is a cast iron...
by Amy Simpson | Dec 12, 2019 | Archaeology, Artifact, Mystery Artifact, NCDOT, Nineteenth Century, North Carolina, Squirrel Creek, Uncategorized
By Kerry S. González For our last blog of 2019 we are once again revisiting artifacts recovered from the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek site, a mid- to late-nineteenth-century domestic site in Randolph County, North Carolina. On behalf of the North Carolina Department of...
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...
