The Smith's Island Archaeology Project

  I am thrilled   to announce that the Smith's Island Archaeology Project is the cover story of next month's Smithsonian Magazine, and will bring international attention to Bermuda's central role in the emerging English Atlantic! Click HERE to read it! A huge thanks to Andrew Lawler and Nicola Muirhead for their fantastic writing and photographs as well as everyone who made Andrew's visit to Bermuda back in June a success. The one thing missing from this story is fully crediting the small army of students, supervisors, and supporters who enabled us to move so much dirt, clean and catalog so many artifacts, and work in an extremely expensive location - they are the unsung heroes of the project's success to date, and hopefully going forward! Six of the 2024 veterans - Skylar, Aleksi, Skyler, Anjali, Chloe, and Juliana - have logged more than a hundred hours in my lab this fall entering 350 artifact inventory contexts (and counting) into our master database, scanning