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LIFE AND DEATH IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY MARYLAND

Sponsored by The Society of The Ark and The Dove On the edge of a cornfield on the Patuxent River in southern Calvert County, archaeologists excavated two plantation sites dating from the 1650s through the 1680s and recovered the remains of planters, servants, and possibly an enslaved African. James Gibb's illustrated lecture offers a glimpse of what life and death were like in Maryland during its founding years. Requires slide projector and screen. Adult and high school audiences.

James G. Gibb is a historical archaeologist with over thirty years of experience, specializing in the archaeological and historical study and interpretation of seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century communities. Currently he is adjunct professor in the History Department of Villa Julie College. He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in anthropology from Binghamton University.