This article was originally published at the Chesapeake Bay Program website by Jake Solyst on January 26th, 2021. Thank you to Jake for letting us share this article on our blog! —————————————————————————————————————— Most Marylanders can tell you about the local blue crab or diamondback terrapin but few can identify the state fossil: an extinct, several-million-year-old snail known as the Ecphora […]
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Hunting for fossils “a marilandia”: Members of a Maryland fossil club look for a state treasure
Archaeology Club Research at Glen Ellen Estate: Documentation of Enslaved Persons in Maryland
Archaeology is ultimately telling the story of our collective human past. Oftentimes, telling the story of people of means has been relatively easy as they leave documents, physical artifacts, buildings, and stories are preserved about them. For the people who built and lived on Glen Ellen Estate on what is now Loch Raven Reservoir land […]
Fascinating Fossils
a small meg (Carcharocles megalodon) peaking out of the gravel along Calvert Cliffs
Learn about NHSM’s Archaeology Club!
In 2019, the Natural History Society of Maryland decided to add an archaeology club. We were just starting to get some real momentum going, and, well, you know….Covid. However, there is always tomorrow, and once this pandemic is over we are planning for some more great archaeology projects! One project which the Archaeology Club was […]