I was surprised to see that the ''Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture'' website included virtually nothing on Historic St. Marys City, MD.  Perhaps I am mistaken, but isn't this site located on the Chesapeake?

Mike Rodeffer 

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From: "King, Julia" <[log in to unmask]> 

> Dear HISTARCHers, 
> 
> Please take some time to check out the new web site for the project, "A 
> Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture," at 
> www.chesapeakearchaeology.org. 
> 
> This web site invites colleagues to explore issues and questions about 
> early colonial culture in Maryland and Virginia in comparative 
> perspective by presenting a wide range of information about 18 domestic 
> sites spanning the period c. 1620-1750. You will find site summaries, 
> maps, artifact images, reports, papers, and downloadable maps and 
> databases in a variety of formats. The site also includes a database of 
> all 18 sites that allows for basic searches on line. 
> 
> The web site is designed to grow. If, in your research, you make use of 
> this data, we would be glad to post your reports. 
> 
> This project represents a collaborative effort by colleagues from the 
> Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Anne Arundel 
> County's Lost Towns Project, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 
> George Washington's Fredericksburg Foundation, Historic Mount Vernon, 
> the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, and the Virginia 
> Department of Historic Resources. 
> 
> Greg Brown and Heather Harvey, both at CW, and Catherine Alston, 
> formerly with the MAC Lab, deserve special acknowledgment for their work 
> at designing, building, and adding content to the web site. 
> 
> Finally, this project has been funded in part by generous grants from 
> the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Department of 
> Historic Resources. 
> 
> If you have any suggestions, ideas, or comments (or, gasp, you find any 
> errors), please contact me at [log in to unmask] 
> 
> Julia A. King 
> Project Director