[SEMCO] CCMNH Digging into the Past

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
March 25, 
2015 
Teresa Izzo
                                                          508-896-3867 ext. 137
                                                   tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging into the Past
with
Archaeologist Brianna Rae
A 3,800-Year-Old Canoe Construction Site from Marshfield, Massachusetts


BREWSTER, MA ­The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster continues its popular 
archaeology/history series, Digging into the 
Past, with archaeologist Brianna Rae Saturday April 25, 2015 at 1pm.

In the fall of 2013, Brianna was part of a team 
of archaeologists from Archaeological and 
Historical Services, Inc. that excavated several 
sites in advance of construction activity in the 
town of Marshfield, Massachusetts. One large 
excavation block produced an uncommonly dense 
assemblage of Native American artifacts dating to 
the Terminal Archaic Period (4,100 to 3,600 years 
ago).  Brianna will describe the site’s unique 
characteristics, including the fortuitous 
circumstances that led to its unlikely discovery. 
The talk will include photos of the multitude of 
excavated artifacts which include stone knives, 
drills, pestles, and fishing weights. Brianna 
will explain how and why the tools were made and 
why the site is currently interpreted as a 
possible construction area for a birch bark 
canoe. Join Brianna to learn about the 
ground-breaking (pun intended!) results from 
analysis thus far, and what it tells us about 
this period in Southern New England’s distant past.

Join Brianna Rae as she makes the exciting 
detective work of an archaeologist fun and 
accessible to the amateur and interested public alike.

  The presentation will be held at the Museum on 
Saturday, April 25, 2015 from 1pm–2pm.

Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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