Full Length Technical Reports
on the Research at Historic St. Mary’s City.

 

	Archaeological Excavations of the Print House Building, Slave Quarter Site (18ST1-14) by Timothy B. Riordan and Silas D. Hurry with contributions by Katherine Cavallo and Sara Rivers Cofield (2015). This color illustrated publication is 149 pages with 86 figures and 32 tables. It details the archaeology and artifact analyses of this significant site in Maryland’s first capital. Included are discussions of the architecture and an analysis of both the printing type recovered and the wide array of ceramics represented. Download size 3.7MB
	Journal of Archaeological Science: Pollen Analysis of Three Seventeenth-Century Lead Coffins by Gerald K. Kelso and Henry M. Miller (2016). Three lead covered wooden coffins containing the remains of a man, a woman, and a child were found during excavations inside the foundation of the 17th-Century Jesuit Chapel at Historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland. The objectives of the lead coffins pollen analysis were to determine the season of burial of the bodies and to recover evidence of plants employed in the interments. Download size 500KB
	Creative Adaptation: Exhibitions in the Downturn by Regina Faden, Ph.D, Executive Director of Historic St. Mary’s City The recent economic downturn has compelled HSMC to develop innovative approaches to create interpretive exhibitions within a tightly constrained budget. The main method of adjusting to limited funds is by mining the museum’s current internal resources of skilled and talented staff members. Download size 14MB