Archaeology in Annapolis

11/21/2017

Our excavations in Easton have unearthed a handful of stained glass. These pieces date to the 19th century, and were most likely associated with the original construction of the building.

10/17/2017

Anyone want to solve a mystery? The lab has guessed that this artifact is a stamp. It was found during the Easton excavations, and probably dates to the 20th century.
What do you think? What was it used for?

10/05/2017

We're busy processing artifacts here in the lab! Here is a cool find for the day- a Coca-Cola bottle, made in Easton, found at Asbury.

06/15/2017

An overview of our work in recent years

11/08/2016

Come see our current exhibit in Hornbake Library at the University of Maryland, featuring the work of Amanda Tang, Beth Pruitt, Ben Skolnik, and Stefan Woehlke and running through the summer of 2017!

Archaeologists in Maryland have discovered artifacts linking African practices and Christianity on the land of a former slave plantation in Maryland.

11/03/2016

In our field, we’re constantly developing new techniques and technologies to improve our ability to discover, preserve, and share the past. Recently, Archaeology in Annapolis has been conserving iron artifacts associated with a spiritual deposit at Wye House Plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. ...

06/22/2016

Our summer field school is well underway at Asbury United Methodist Church in Easton, Maryland! If you haven't stopped by to see us, please do next week before we wrap up. We're working on a community hall called the Tabernacle and locating the privy while the church undergoes a much-needed renovation.

05/03/2016

Maryland Day 2016 was a rousing success, with 580 visitors! We introduced a number of young archaeologists to the field and got to show off our 3D laser scanner.

03/22/2016

We've been busy in the lab of late.

01/09/2016

Congratulations Mark Leone on winning the J.C. Harrington Medal in Historical Archaeology

10/06/2015

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Leone will be giving a public lecture on the Archaeology of the Early Free Black Community in Talbot County on Thursday, October 8th at 6pm. Please join us at the Avalon Theater in Easton, MD, at 6pm! He will discuss research we have done over the past decade on the Eastern Shore at several sites.

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10/06/2015

More from our field school students from this past summer.

An archaeological feature is a context that interrupts the soil stratigraphy of a single unit – while the strata within the unit are horizontal, the feature is marked by its vertical position. Usually this means that in the past, people dug out a section of the land, leaving an empty pit that was l…