Excavating Occaneechi Town: Archaeology Of An Eighteenth-Century Indian Village In North Carolina
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- social studies (American Indians, anthropology, North Carolina, United States history)
- Provider
- Research Laboratories of Archaeology UNC-CH
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Excavating Occaneechi Town is an archaeological site report from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and hosted by ibiblio that “describes and interprets the buried remains of Occaneechi Town, a small but important village of the Occaneechi tribe that stood on the banks of the Eno River in North Carolina at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Also known as the Fredricks site, this village was excavated by archaeologists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in order to study how European colonization of North America affected Native Americans.
Excavating Occaneechi Town is unique, not just because it is an electronic publication but because it contains a wealth of visual and descriptive information not usually available in an archaeological site report. In fact, it is a complete, fully searchable record of all the excavated contexts and recovered artifacts from Occaneechi Town. In addition to describing the archaeology of the site and interpreting what was found, this report contains over 1,000 full-color photographs and maps, and detailed information for over 100,000 analyzed artifacts. The report also contains an archaeological teaching tool, called the Electronic Dig, which allows students to design their own research strategies and re-excavate Occaneechi Town.”
