The Fiske Center Blog

Weblog for the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Further research required…

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Most of the posts on this blog are done during the field season to highlight ongoing work or new discoveries. Many of those show intriguing artifacts or features and end with statements like “further research is needed…” This is often true; we document our findings carefully in the field, but many artifacts need to be cleaned, researched, and compared to reference samples to be identified or interpreted. Often we need to look at artifacts as a group rather than individually to make sense of them; sometimes additional documentary research tells us more. One of the common sayings among archaeologists is for every hour a person spends in the field, three hours are required in the lab.

The next few posts will be part of a “Further Research” series on artifacts and features from the 2014 season on Burial Hill in Plymouth to show what we learned about them during a year of research. The 2015 material will undergo the same treatment over the fall and winter.

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