Pointing Towards a More Complete Narrative: An Analysis of Indigenous Artifacts at the Leonard Calvert House, Historic St. Mary’s City

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

More than twenty seasons of excavations at the Leonard Calvert House site have yielded artifacts spanning vast periods of time both before and after the gubernatorial occupation that lends the site its name. The land of Historic St. Mary’s City was long occupied by the indigenous groups of Maryland before European settlement, and the Calvert House site is no exception. This paper will focus on a preliminary artifact analysis of projectile points, stone tools, and Native-made ceramics that were found in previous and recent excavations. Our objective is to expand our understanding of Native life at the site prior to English colonization, and in doing so, tell a fuller history of early Maryland.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Bastions, Buttons, and Burials: Recent Research at Historic St. Mary’s City   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow