by gwffoundation | Aug 26, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Fruit! It’s good for you, delicious, and often beautiful – but have you ever thought of fruit as a status symbol? In today’s world of relatively quick, inexpensive long-distance transportation, we enjoy fresh fruit from all over the world year-round. We...
by gwffoundation | Aug 10, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists spend much more of their time working to determine the significance of an object than actually finding the object through excavation. This analytical work is done in an archaeology lab. Before analysis can begin, the newly uncovered artifacts have to be...
by gwffoundation | Jul 27, 2015 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists sometimes recreate technology from the past to understand how people lived. This is called experimental archaeology. Native American occupation of Ferry Farm left behind many artifacts including fire-cracked rocks. This video shows how those rock...
by gwffoundation | Jul 22, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Chances are you haven’t spent much time thinking about chicken digestive tracts. This is normal. Here at George Washington’s Ferry Farm, however, the topic actually comes up from time to time. More than once we archaeologists have found ceramic artifacts that have...
by gwffoundation | Jun 24, 2015 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies
Archaeologists are occasionally confronted with ‘mystery artifacts’ that either cannot be identified or have been altered to serve a purpose other than what was originally intended. Recently, in our small finds collection, we identified an artifact transformed in...
by gwffoundation | Jun 22, 2015 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies
In this video, spend a day with the archaeologists as they excavate at George Washington’s Ferry Farm. Learn more about Ferry Farm archaeology at...
