NORTH ATLANTIC ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLABORATIVE INC

What they do

EXCAVATION and PRESERVATION of EXTREMELY RARE and FRAGILE SECOND QUARTER 17TH CENTURY HOME SITE LOCATED ON CAPE COD IN SANDWICH, MA THAT HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY NOTABLE ARCHEOLOGISTS to BE THE ONLY IN-TACT FIRST PERIOD HOME SITE IN NEW ENGLAND. THIS SITE WAS DISCOVERED IN 2011 and is BEING EXCAVATED BY A TEAM of VOLUNTEERS LED BY WELL-KNOWN and RESPECTED ARCHAEOLOGIST DAVID WHEELOCK. THE SITE CONTAINS ONE of THE MOST COMPLETE HOME SITE, HEARTH and FOUNDATION DATING BACK to THE MID-1600S. HUNDREDS of ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN EXCAVATED and CATALOGUED THAT SHOW US EVERY ASPECT of DAILY LIFE IN THE 17TH CENTURY INCLUDING SMOKING PIPES, HORSE BRIDALS, GUN FLINT, EYE GLASS LENS, IMPORTED POTTERY and AN EXTREMELY RARE PIECE of WHALE VERTEBRAE WHICH WAS USED AS A CHOPPING BLOCK. MANY NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS SUCH AS ARROWHEADS DATING FROM BEFORE THE COLONIAL PERIOD HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED AS WELL.