New Research on the "Old Colony": Excavations in Downtown Plymouth

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Since 2013, archaeologists from UMass Boston have been engaged in a collaborative research program focused on 17th-century Plymouth (MA) colony. This project has combined discovery of new sites in downtown Plymouth with a reexamination of existing collections curated from earlier excavations. Excavations in downtown Plymouth have discovered the first intact deposits from inside the palisaded settlement, while also documenting the deep Native history of the region and of the extensive landscape transformation that has taken place since colonization. The archaeological features from the early settlement include an early 17th-century structure (ca. 1620-1660) and nearby yard spaces, which appear to be organized differently than later examples from the colony.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Research on the “Old Colony”: Recent Approaches to Plymouth Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 679