Topics Related to Office of State Archaeology
July 26, 2018, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Shawn will discuss archaeological insights on various historic cemeteries in North Carolina and beyond.
June 28, 2018, 11:30am - 12:30pm
January Costa will discuss the work that she has accomplished in the past 10 years to create an archaeology program in Lincoln County, North Carolina.
October 27, 2018, 10am - 2pm
What is archaeology? It’s more than just digging in the dirt! Come out to “Public Archaeology Day” to talk with the experts and learn all about what we do.
April 17, 2018, 11:30am - 12:30pm
Dr. David Cranford discusses Catawba household archaeology that shows individual households experimented with a variety of creative solutions.
October 5, 2017, 11:30pm - October 6, 2017, 12:30am
Over the last several decades, archaeologists have become increasingly interested in a variety of cultural behaviors along the edges of the Mississippian world. Although most research has focused on the Mississippian side of this boundary, there is obvious utility in understanding the societies on the other side, particularly where interaction across the cultural frontier may have occurred. This research seeks to understand the economic behavior among one of these societies, the Piedmont Village Tradition (PVT) in the upper Yadkin River Valley (UYRV).
October 25, 2017, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Now approaching his 35th year of archaeological study of the Moravians of Wachovia, Dr. Hartley, Director of Archaeology at Old Salem Museums and Gardens, will talk about past, present and future historical archaeology there.North Carolina Museum of History | 5 East Edenton, Raleigh, NCView the flyer (pdf)
June 13, 2017, 11:30am - 12:30pm
The Ailey Young house was built in 1875 by Professor William G. Simmons of Wake Forest as a part of a group of tenant farm houses known as “Simmons Row.” After his death in 1895, his widow, Mary Elizabeth, sold the house to Ailey Young, a married African-American woman. Ailey and her husband, Henry, raised their 13 children in the house, including son Allen Young, founder of the first school for African-American children in Wake Forest. The house is also the oldest-known African-American house in Wake Forest.
May 23, 2017, 11:30am - 12:30pm
During the American Civil War, blockade runners played an invaluable role in keeping Confederate forces supplied with munitions and other goods. Members of North Carolina’s Underwater Archaeology Branch (UAB) are rediscovering some of these important pieces of history. The Agnes E.
March 13, 2017, 11:30pm - March 14, 2017, 12:30am
Mary Beth Fitts of OSA discussed the specialization of archaeobotany (also known as paleoethnobotany), which focuses on the recovery, analysis, and interpretation of plant materials from archaeological sites. Because site formation processes and archaeological recovery methods play a large role in structuring what we find in archaeobotanical assemblages, it is important to understand how plant remains come to be preserved in the archaeological record, and what techniques are employed to ensure that they have the best chance of being identified in the laboratory.
February 27, 2017, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Brad Hatch and NC DOT discuss the Trogdon-Squirrel Creek Site