Looking at Prehistoric Artifacts in Charles County

Carol Cowherd

At the February 2 CCASM meeting, Carol Cowherd talked about the artifacts that have been appearing in her backyard over the past several years.  In order to help understand these artifacts Carol gave a brief overview of prehistoric lithics and ceramics that can be found in Charles County.  The answer to the talk's question "Is there a prehistoric woodland site in my backyard?' was yes there is either a site or part of a woodland site.

Artifact Distribution

On the right is a map indicating what she found where along with an image of one of the ceramic sherds.

Carol is the president for the Charles County Archaeological Society of Maryland Inc. and a member of the Archeological Society of Maryland Inc.

Everyone got to a chance to hold a mortar and a pestle brought by one of our visitors.  The woman also brought  a picture of some of the projectile points that she had found.

The winners of the raffle for two copies of Jim Gibb's The Layman's Guide to Historical Archaeology in Maryland book were Carol Raucheisen and Gary Frick.

Attendance:16

Google Calendar for CCASM Events

The larger version of the Google Calendar now works.

In December we started putting CCAS events and other archaeological events of interest into a Google Calendar.  Also we put a small embedded version of the calendar on this blog rather than just putting up a picture of a calendar.

Now by clicking on "Calendar - Large View"  it is easier to see the details.  You also have the ability to use the "Agenda" tab to create a list of upcoming events.

If you do click on dates within the small calendar, here are things that you need to know.

Clicking on a date with text (usually only a few letters or numbers) will pop-up a small window with the event, location, and description information.

Unfortunately, the right side of the text is cut off and there are no scroll bars.  On a Mac, using the right and left keyboard arrow keys will allow you to scroll in this pop-up window and see all the information.

To close this window, you have to click on some part of the calendar that is outside this pop-up window.  For example, try clicking the "Today" button at the top of the small calendar.