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

Creator(s): Francis McManamon

Year: 1979

Summary

Photo shows John Portnoy, then Cape Cod NS park scientist (kneeling) and Michael Soukup (then Ast. Regional Scientist) shifting through back dirt pile from the backhoe excavation of the ossuary site to recover distrubed human bone and artifacts.

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: 370028) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8J38QWB

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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
Human cremation • Ossuary • Refuse Pit • Settlements • Sheet Midden • Shell Midden • Storage Pit • 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: 41.898 ; max long: -69.988; max lat: 41.942 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Principal Investigator(s): Francis McManamon

Source Collections

Records are at the Cape Cod National Seashore Curation Facility, Salt Pond Visitor Center, Eastham, MA The human remains were repatriated in the 1980s

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