by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is a goat horn recovered archaeologically by Jamestown Rediscovery. According to Merry Outlaw, Curator of Archaeology for Jamestown Rediscovery, the butchered horn is from the post structure in the palisade extension to the original James Fort. It came from a large cellar (possible well) and dates prior to 1624. More information on the excavation of this feature can be found here.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Note: The director was occupied with a gas leak in his home this past week, which is why this is a tad delayed.
Today’s animation is a butchered dog humerus recovered archaeologically by Jamestown Rediscovery. Cut marks on the dog humerus indicate an attempt to remove flesh for consumption. The butchered mandible dates to the “starving time” dated to the winter of 1609-1610. A spectacular forensic archaeological discovery announced early last year by Jamestown Rediscovery confirmed historic documents that indicate the residents of James Fort also turned toward cannibalism. For more on the individual identified as “Jane” whose body exhibits evidence of cannibalism, you can read Jane’s Story here.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is a fragment of a bone bead recovered in 1939 or 1940 by a Work Projects Administration (WPA) crew from the Fort Hill site, a Monongahela tradition village site located in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. It is now within the archaeological collections of The State Museum of Pennsylvania (TSMP).
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory
Today’s animation is a Genesee Broadspear point scanned at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in July 2014. This point was scanned to aid in the creation of a digital projectile point typology funded by the Department of Defense’s Legacy Program, as detailed here.
by Bernard K. Means, Director of the Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL)
Today’s animation is a Guilford point from the Doerschuck Site, North Carolina. This point was scanned on August 5, 2014 in the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The point is illustrated as Point C in Figure 35 on Page 40 of Coe’s 1964 work “Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 54, Part 5.
This point, as well as others from Coe’s (1964) monograph, were scanned to aid in the creation of a digital projectile point typology funded by the Department of Defense’s Legacy Program, as detailed here.
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