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November  9

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Ten Thousand Years in the Upper Potomac River Valley: The Archaeology of the Barton Site
Friday,  November  9 , 12 noon
National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium

Bob Wall of Towson University discusses his excavations at a site near Cumberland, Maryland. The work has revealed a sequence of human occupation of the Potomac headwaters from Paleoindian times to the early 1600s, when the Susquehannocks established a small settlement.

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