Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA

Creator(s): Francis McManamon

Year: 1979

Summary

Photo of the crowd of observers who visited the excavation site of the Indian Neck ossuary. Excavation is shown in the lower right corner of the photo. In the lower left corner of the photo are three observers from the Mashpee and Wampanoag Indian tribes.

Cite this Record

Excavation of the Indian Neck Ossuary, September 1979, Wellfleet, MA. Francis McManamon. 1979. Records are at the Cape Cod National Seashore Curation Facility, Salt Pond Visitor Center, Eastham, MA ( tDAR id: 370027) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8RN36N4

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Keywords

Culture
Euroamerican • Late Woodland • Middle Woodland

Material
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fire Cracked Rock • Human Remains • Metal • Shell

Site Name
Indian Neck ossuary, Wellfleet, MA

Site Type
Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Human cremation • Ossuary • Settlements • Sheet Midden • Shell Midden • Trash Midden

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Geographic Keywords
Barnstable County • Cape Cod • Southeastern Massachusetts • Southern New England

Temporal Keywords
Contact Period • Historic Period • Prehistoric Period

Spatial Coverage

min long: -70.041; min lat: 41.903 ; max long: -70; max lat: 41.941 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Cape Cod National Seashore, National Park Service

Principal Investigator(s): Francis McManamon

Source Collections

Field records are in the Cape Cod National Seashore Curatorial Facility, Salt Pond Visitor Center, Eastham, MA. Human remains were repatriated in the 1980s.

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