1. Digging Arlington History, Archaeology and Artifacts

2. What is Archaeology?

3. Dead people and Trash

4. What do archaeologists really do?

5. Archaeologists Dig

6. Excavation

7. Archaeologists DO NOT: Study dinosaurs Just pick up artifacts Buy or sell artifacts

8. Study of things people left behind to learn about the past. What is archaeology? Material Culture

9. What is an artifact? Anything made or modified by people

10. What do archaeologists find? Artifacts –Stone –Bone –Pottery –Shell Beads –Wood (very rare) –Metal –Glass

11. Why are things missing?

12. They rot!

13. Arlington Archaeology

14. Native Americans Wampanoag Prehistoric –point of view Turtle Island

15. The Massachuset Menotomy

16. Arrowheads Projectile points

17. Wampum

18. Fishing

19. Alewife

20. Would these survive ?

21. Experimental Archaeology

22. Artifacts = Time Lines April 19, 1775 Lexington Green

23. April 19, 1775 Concord Road Jason Russell House "... the bloodiest half-mile of all the Battle Road." What artifacts ?

24. Spy Pond Ice Sent to Boston for shipment via ship to Caribbean Artifacts?

25. Minuteman Bikeway Lexington and West Cambridge Railroad Artifacts?

26. Where would you find Native American artifacts

27. SEE YOU IN MAY