Topic ID #13352 - posted 8/17/2011 6:28 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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Earliest carbon-dated human habitation found in Maryland at Pig Point site
Jennifer Palmer
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Archaeological finds boost profile of Arundel's Pig Point
Hearth dating to 7290 B.C. is discovered
By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun
August 14, 2011
LEON ——
Three years of digging at a prehistoric Indian site in Anne Arundel County has unearthed the oldest structures and human habitations in Maryland and is making this bluff above the Patuxent River one of the most important archaeological sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
Last week, archaeologists learned from carbon-14 dating that a stone hearth they uncovered this summer was last used 9,290 years ago. That makes the site, called Pig Point, twice as old as the earliest carbon-dated human habitation found previously in Maryland.
Yet the carbon-14 date is just the latest in a series of extraordinary discoveries at the South County site that are drawing the interest of archaeologists from throughout the region.
Read more here.
Hearth dating to 7290 B.C. is discovered
By Frank D. Roylance, The Baltimore Sun
August 14, 2011
LEON ——
Three years of digging at a prehistoric Indian site in Anne Arundel County has unearthed the oldest structures and human habitations in Maryland and is making this bluff above the Patuxent River one of the most important archaeological sites in the Mid-Atlantic.
Last week, archaeologists learned from carbon-14 dating that a stone hearth they uncovered this summer was last used 9,290 years ago. That makes the site, called Pig Point, twice as old as the earliest carbon-dated human habitation found previously in Maryland.
Yet the carbon-14 date is just the latest in a series of extraordinary discoveries at the South County site that are drawing the interest of archaeologists from throughout the region.
Read more here.
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