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Five Cool Ancient Artifacts Found at Ferry Farm [Photos]

Five Cool Ancient Artifacts Found at Ferry Farm [Photos]

by gwffoundation | Oct 21, 2019 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies, Native American

Fredericksburg is famous for its colonial and Civil War history – but what about before that history?  Decades of archaeological excavations at George Washington’s Ferry Farm have revealed millennia of human development and technology from pre-historic Native American...
When Games are Serious Business: Chunkey

When Games are Serious Business: Chunkey

by gwffoundation | Oct 17, 2019 | Archaeology, Lives & Legacies, Native American

Sometimes games are just fun but sometimes games can make you or break you. This is the case with chunkey, a Native American game.  Invented around 600 AD by indigenous peoples of the Cahokia region (near modern day St. Louis, Missouri), chunkey was a popular game...
Ten Cool But Rarely-Exhibited Artifacts Found at Ferry Farm

Ten Cool But Rarely-Exhibited Artifacts Found at Ferry Farm

by gwffoundation | Oct 14, 2016 | Archaeology, George Washington's Ferry Farm, Lives & Legacies

When you enter a museum you’re surrounded by cool stuff.  Be it paintings, fossils, or ancient artifacts, they’re all special items that you’d be hard pressed to find elsewhere.  But what if I told you that the cool objects you see on display in a museum are a mere...

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