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Backfilling the Occaneechi Town excavation
About this photograph
- Provider
- Research Laboratories of Archaeology
- Date created
- 1998–2003
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1998. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by Research Laboratories of Archaeology
See this photograph in context
- Two worlds: Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony: First part of a North Carolina history text for secondary students, covering the land, American Indians before contact with Europeans, Spanish exploration, the Roanoke colony, and the Columbian Exchange. (Page 2.11)
- Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig. (Page 44)
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- Search LEARN NC for American Indian towns, American Indians, archaeology, excavations, North Carolina, and Occaneechi.
In the classroom
- See our collection of articles on visual literacy for ideas on using photographs meaningfully in the classroom.
