The FPAN Archaeology Lab is open to volunteers throughout the year. Volunteers help rough sort artifacts recovered from local archaeological sites. No experience is needed, but all volunteers are given a brief orientation by a professional archaeologist on their first day.
Come visit over 10,000 years of local archaeology! The museum displays thousands of artifacts including a handcrafted mishoon (dugout canoe), the Doyle collection of Native American dolls, and a diorama of Native American New England life.
This new exhibit draws on the archaeology of Mayflower pilgrims John and Priscilla Alden's first house site in Duxbury. An excavation done in 1960 by Roland T. Robbins uncovered thousands of objects at a site occupied from 1630 until ca. 1690. Using recent analysis of the collection, the exhibit explores the Alden's daily life in […]
Talk by Joshua Robinson, Boston University.
"From Nashville to Dollywood" FREE lecture by Helen Morales, University of California, Santa Barbara Nashville Parthenon Please RSVP to: 615.862.8431 or info@parthenon.org In 2010, Helen Morales made a pilgrimage to Dollywood. Morales was a recent transplant from England to the United States, a Classics Professor, and a huge Dolly Parton fan. She traveled from Graceland […]
Wilkie Lecture Location to be confirmed
Historians have spoken often of the Americas as a "New World" without ever delving into what that meant to 17th century explorers and settlers from Europe. National Park Service Ranger John McNiff relates how the expectations of the earliest "New" England explorers and settlers – about the climate, landscape, and even the appearance of the […]
Please join local archaeologist, Martha Sulya (MA in Historical Archaeology at the University of Massachusetts Boston), as she tells the tale of the remains of domestic life at the Plymouth Antiquarian Society's 1677 Harlow House. The Harlow House underwent an extensive interior restoration in 2006. Come learn and see what was found during excavations under […]
Presented by Dr. Roger Smith The Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park has been a favorite site for tourists in St. Augustine, Florida, since April 1868 – the earliest-known documented dating of a patron visiting the park for a sip of water from the famous fountain. But it is also arguably the most historic 15 acres […]
John Shrader Chapter 21 Archaeology Day on a Saturday in October – Date to be determined. Monthly Chapter 21 meeting on October 2nd at Joanna Furnace in Morgantown,Pa . Our speaker will be Janet Johnson, who will be presenting updates on Archaeology at Fort Hunter, a French and Indian war fort in Harrisburg, Pa. Mr. […]
