MS Archaeologists visit Local Park
Source/Author: David Hodgson, MS History Teacher
September 16, 2016
Mr. Hodgson took his seventh grade budding archaeologists to Abercrombie Park to conduct a surface survey in their search for Native American pottery that the local Tocobaga Indians left behind centuries ago. They found many small pottery shards and some even showed incised designs on their surface. The class found more shards this year than in the past, most likely as a result of Hurricane Hermine.
The pottery was made anywhere from the Archaic to the Mississippian period, which lasted from 6,500 B.C.E - 1500 C.E.. All the shards were returned to the places they were found.
(More photos here.)
The pottery was made anywhere from the Archaic to the Mississippian period, which lasted from 6,500 B.C.E - 1500 C.E.. All the shards were returned to the places they were found.
(More photos here.)