Ask an Archaeologist # 10

CCASM members and others were asked to provided answers to the next question.  Here is one of the responses.

?      What is the oldest item you have found?  How old was it?

It would have to be a Hardaway-Dalton projectile point my students found on a beautiful farm on the west side of Allen's Fresh in Charles County.  This 9,000-year-old point was lost by one of the region's first inhabitants, and there it was, in a shovel test in a plowed field.

Answer provided by Julia King

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