Archaeology

Humans have lived in North America for more than 10,000 years, but the written history of the continent goes back fewer than 500.

What were people doing during those prehistoric years? How and where did they live? What parts of their environments did they use?

Artifacts and features (stains in the soil) are all that remain of these first inhabitants. Archaeologists systematically recover these materials and describe and analyze them.

Using these physical clues, archaeologists can re-create the lifeways of these vanished societies.
 
The Museum’s archaeologists focus their research primarily on the Native American societies of the Ohio region prior to A.D. 1650.

Read more about the 2007 Field School at the Danbury site in Blogging Archaeology. This blog will also continue to cover current lab work and other archaeology projects that are developing. 

The Department of Archaeology offers programs giving an opportunity for a more in-depth look at the discipline. Interested students are encouraged to investigate the Archaeology in Action and Adopt-A-Student programs.