Mayflower Archaeology Project (MAP)

Laboratory

Laboratory work for the 1997 season consisted mostly of washing, sorting, counting, labeling, cataloging, and recording of 1997 artifacts. In addition, the artifacts of the 1996 season were labeled, cataloged, and recorded in accordance with the new DOA guidelines. Some preliminary analysis of the artifacts occurred during this process, but a ceramicist and lithic expert will be brought on to the project next season to begin formal analysis. At present, over 22,000 artifacts have been recorded. As the present goal of the project is to acquire utilitarian wares to begin a typology for the site very few "special artifacts" have been recovered.

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