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PRESS RELEASE<br>
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FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<br>
March 28,
2018
Teresa Izzo<br>
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508-896-3867 ext. 137<br>
tizzo@ccmnh.org<br>
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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents<br>
Digging Into the Past<br>
<i>“The Specialized Field of Archaeobotany”<br>
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</i>BREWSTER, MA The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster
presents <i>“The Specialized Field of Archaeobotany” </i>with Katharine
Reinhart <b>Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1pm.<br>
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One of the least discussed specialized fields of study within
archaeology is archaeobotanical analysis. Despite being a neglected form
of investigation, archaeobotany has the potential to provide researchers
with invaluable data that can offer insights into such things as to what
our ancestors were eating, using for medicine, and even give researchers
a timetable for when a site was occupied. Katharine will be using case
studies from her own experiences in historical archaeology to explain
what archaeobotany is, what it can tell us, and why this is such an
important vein of research.<br><br>
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Katharine has been doing historical archaeology with an archaeobotanical
focus since her first field school excavation of an antebellum slave
cabin site in western Tennessee in 2012. After graduating with a Bachelor
of Arts in Anthropology/Sociology from Rhodes College in Memphis, she
began pursuing a career in New England cultural resource management as a
field archaeologist in 2014. She has also completed contract
archaeobotanical analysis for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum &
Research Center and the Public Archaeology Lab, Inc., and continues to
operate as a contract archaeobotanist from her home. Originally from
southern Ohio, Katharine currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island and
works for Archaeological & Historical Services, Inc. in Mansfield,
Connecticut.<br>
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<b>Free with Museum Admission<br>
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<b> </b>For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867
ext. 133.<br>
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Teresa Izzo<br>
Program Coordinator<br>
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<br>
869 Main St./Rte. 6A<br>
Brewster, MA 02631<br>
508-896-3867 x137<br>
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