Calvert County Archaeology Update

At the February 10 CCASM Zoom meeting we had two speakers that talked about archaeology in Calvert County.  

Kirsti Uunila

 

Chris Sperling

First Kirsti Uunila shared stories from a variety of archaeology projects undertaken while she was Calvert County's Historic Preservation Planner.  This included archaeology at  the Calverton Site, a multicomponent site that served as the first County Seat for Calvert County until 1724.  Most of this archaeology was undertaken during the 2017 and 2018 ASM Field Sessions.  She also talked about consulting a voodoo priestess(?) about a broken hoe found under a door post of the slave cabin.  And Kirsti related two times that she worked with the family and community for the reburial of bones that had been removed under unusual circumstances.

 Next Christopher Sperling described Calvert County archaeological projects for which he had submitted grants or else could use volunteers.  One grant is for a seventeenth century site that is eroding into the Chesapeake Bay.  Another ongoing effort is to document abandoned tobacco barns and other buildings in order to add them to the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties (MHIP). 

Kirsti Uunila is an independent consultant who retired in 2020 after twenty-seven years as the Calvert County Historic Preservation Planner and de facto Archaeologist. 
Chris Sperling is the current Historic Preservation Planner for Calvert County and also an adjunct instructor at Stevenson University. 

We would like to thank James Gibb for hosting the Zoom meeting. 

 A snapshot of some of those at the meetings - 

 Attendance: 13 people