Keywords: Archeology
Item 26899
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1692 Location: Bristol Media: Pottery
Item 26907
Bone Hair Brush from Fort William Henry, Bristol, ca. 1692
Contributed by: Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands Date: circa 1692 Location: Bristol Media: Bone, bristles
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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Student Narrative of MDI History
"… no written information from this time period but archeological evidence shows that the Abnaki spent time on MDI hunting, fishing, catching…"
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Lesson Plan
What Remains: Learning about Maine Populations through Burial Customs
Grade Level: 6-8
Content Area: English Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual & Performing Arts
This lesson plan will give students an overview of how burial sites and gravestone material culture can assist historians and archaeologists in discovering information about people and migration over time. Students will learn how new scholarship can help to dispel harmful archaeological myths, look into the roles of religion and ethnicity in early Maine and New England immigrant and colonial settlements, and discover how to track changes in population and social values from the 1600s to early 1900s based on gravestone iconography and epitaphs.
