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
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