Pandemic Archaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth Trocolli. Christine Ames. Delande Justinvil.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Covid-19 lockdown, the DC Archaeology Team completed emergency salvage of burials found in a Georgetown basement crawl space, part of an undocumented cemetery. We have visited this block on multiple occasions and believe that the cemetery likely served Georgetown’s large African American community - both enslaved and free - in the first half of the...