The 2024 Season in Review - Smallpox Bay: The First Town Site
It is now September and we are all back at school or working various contract archaeology gigs around the world. The site and lab supervisors and I spent all of July producing a comprehensive report on our highly successful season, the discoveries we made, and future work ahead of us - and very fulfilling to see just how much we accomplished. My fantastic team of diggers, lab rats, and volunteers made this happen, so take a bow! This is the first installment reporting on findings, beginning with Smallpox Bay. Additional posts for Oven Site, Lab Analysis, Preliminary Faunal Analysis, and an Underwater Survey of Smith's Sound will follow in the weeks to come. Smallpox Bay - Ewan Shannon, Site Supervisor This season, we expanded our working area of Smallpox Bay significantly. A total of 371 contexts were assigned and excavated across 95 meter-square units – an area nearly double that of the previous year. Alongside our professional crew, thirteen Bermudian volunteers each dedicated
