Massachusetts Archaeology Month Posters
2019
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2019's Archaeology Month Poster features excavations at Katherine Nanny Naylor's privy at the Cross Street Backlot Site in Boston.
2018
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2018's Archaeology Month Poster features artifacts recovered from excavations within the Lowell National Historical Park.
2017
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2017's Archaeology Month poster features stone artifacts recovered from excavations at a South Shore site. Photo Courtesy of Mary Harper
2016
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2016's Archaeology Month poster features a photo by Dan Zoto from the archaeological field school at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts.
2015
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This anonymous shipwreck was found off the coast of Coffin's Beach in Gloucester, MA. Photographed by David S. Robinson.
2014
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These artifacts were found during the archaeological investigation of the Three Cranes Tavern Site in Charlestown, MA.
2013
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A team of archaeologists work to unearth a house foundation at the Sarah Boston Farmstead Site in Grafton, MA. Excavations here give insight into the life of a 19th-century Nipmuc woman in Central Massachusetts.
2012
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Patterns in the ground, called features, help archaeologists learn about places and activities of the past. Here, archaeologists are working at the Fairbanks House in Dedham, the oldest timber-frame house in North America, built in the early 17th Century. They have uncovered a stone foundation and cobbled floor which, based on its size, was most likely part of a barn associated with the Fairbanks House.
2011
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A gentleman’s Wellington riding boot, ca. 1805-1823, discovered at the Mill Pond Site near Dock Square and the North End of Boston.
2010
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Cast-iron door key, six inches long, found at the Tremont Street Housing Site in Roxbury, MA.
2009
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Transfer printed pearlware plate. Zebra pattern, early 1800s.
2008
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From left to right: Small Stemmed point from the Bay Street I Site, Taunton. Levanna point from Grape Island, Weymouth. Meadowood point from Spectacle Island, Boston. Neville-Variant point from the Bay Street I Site, Taunton. Brewerton Eared Triangle point from Spectacle Island, Boston. Bifurcate-base point from the Double P Site, Bridgewater. Squibnocket Triangle point from the Canoe River West Site, Norton
2007
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All of the pottery on 2007’s poster came from the City Square area in the heart of Charlestown.
2006
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Learn more about the African Meeting House excavation featured in the Poster (PDF)
2005
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