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They Looked to the Water: An Ancestor Forward Approach to Commemorating the Chancellor’s Point Burying Ground (2025)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Chesapeake Landscapes in Transition", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the 2020–2021 COVID-19 shutdown, a treefall on the edge of a bluff at the Chancellor’s Point site at Historic St. Mary’s City (HSMC), Maryland partially exposed a buried ancestor of African descent. A second ancestor was found nearby interred at the base of a tall tree near the bluff’s edge. Both ancestors...