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Luce Archaeology Collection Open House

October 12, 2019 @ 11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT

Buttonwoods Museum
240 Water Street
Haverhill, MA 01830 United States


An open house and Q&A session with artifacts from the Frederick A. Luce Collection. Learn about pre-European contact Native history in Haverhill and Thera Luce, Frederick’s wife, who was also an amateur archaeologist. The program will showcase artifacts such as lithics, steatite bowl fragments and ceramic fragments that span the ancient occupational periods. Museum interpreters will describe their uses and talk about the people who made and used them in their daily lives along the Merrimack River. Come see how projectile points were made at the ancient tool technology demonstration!

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Date:
October 12, 2019
Time:
11:00 am - 2:00 pm EDT
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Website:
https://www.sec.state.ma.us/mhc/mhcarch/arch_month/archidx.htm#Acton

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Buttonwoods Museum
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programs@buttonwoods.org
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Buttonwoods Museum
240 Water Street
Haverhill, MA 01830 United States
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