Massachusetts

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Archaeological Sites

Annasnappet Pond
Archaic period cemetery; a comparison of atlatls from this site in Massachusetts, and Indian Knoll, Kentucky, an abstract from a paper given at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.

Colonial Boston
"The Big Dig", a cultural resources management excavation in advance of a subway, is revealing a great deal of Colonial Boston; an article in Archaeology magazine.

Nathan and Polly Johnson House
Remote sensing project at an early 19th century African-American home in New Bedford, Massachusetts. From C.J. Hodge, R. DuBois, and A. Holt, students at Boston University.  

Plymouth Colony
From the University of Virginia, a collection of searchable texts, including seminar analysis of various topics, biographical profiles of selected colonists, and probate inventories pertaining to this site in Massachusetts occupied from 1620-1691.

Research Institutions

Boston University Boston
MA, PhD.

Brandeis University Boston
MA, PhD. evolutionary processes, comparative social institutions, and systems of meaning

Harvard University - Boston
AM, PhD

Harvard University (Classics) Cambridge
AM, PhD Classical Archaeology

Massachusetts Historical Commission
To identify, evaluate and protect the Commonwealth's important historic and archaeological resources

Tufts University Medford
MA, Classical archaeology

University of Massachusetts Amherst
MA, PhD.

University of Massachusetts Boston Boston
MA Historical Archaeology

Current Researchers

Andrew Beahrs
"Both Nature and Reason": Gender and the House in the Plymouth Colony, abstract for a paper at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.

Ricardo Elia
Boston University, ethics, international cultural heritage, public archaeology.

Suzanne Spencer-Wood
Feminist Historical Archaeology and the Domestic Reform of Boston's Landscape, an abstract for a paper at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.

Cultural History

General Information

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