Center For Public Archaeology

06/21/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/science/civil-war-archaeology-bones-limbs.html

Two skeletons and the remains of 11 amputated limbs are leading to new knowledge of combat injuries and medical practices on long-ago battlefields.

04/30/2018

This glass inkwell, excavated from the Thompson House, was recently restored by CfPA interns.

04/13/2018

Professor Phillippi teaching the interns about white-clay pipes

04/06/2018

Looking through our collection of pipe fragments

04/03/2018

A 1831 Liberty Cent, found at the Thompson House

04/03/2018

Archaeologists have discovered the oldest-known human footprints in the New World, which date to between 13,300 and 13,000 years ago, below the surface of a beach on Calvert Island off the coast of British Columbia.

archaeology.org/news/6476-180328-canada-oldest-footprints

(Duncan McLaren CC-BY)

03/21/2018

One of the oldest—and surely one of the most expensive—European ceramics ever found in Boston was recently unearthed from a site adjacent to the Paul Revere House.

archaeology.org/issues/293-1803/artifact/6343-artifact

(Courtesy Joe Bagley/Boston Landmarks Commission)

03/14/2018

YORK BEACH, MAINE—Last week, marine archaeologist Stefan Claesson examined the remains of a wooden ship’s hull that was exposed after up to eight feet of sand eroded from Maine’s Short Sands Beach during a storm. According to a report in Seacoast Online, the wreckage was first exposed in 1958....

02/12/2018

Celebrating at the CfPA lab!

02/07/2018

Analysis of DNA from the 10,000-year-old remains of Cheddar Man, discovered in southwest England's Gough's Cave at the beginning of the 20th century, has revealed that he probably had blue eyes, dark brown skin, and dark, curly hair.

archaeology.org/news/6331-180207-cheddar-man-reconstruction

(Courtesy University College London)

02/06/2018

12/18/2017

The story of the original St. Nicholas is a tale of mistaken identity and grave robbery.