Shifting Sands: Archaeology and the Transformation of Southern Maryland on-line talk

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Dr. Jim Gibb, Director of SERC Environmental Archaeology Lab

Speaker: Dr. Jim Gibb, SERC Environmental Archaeology Lab

The landscape of southern Maryland bears little resemblance to what it was 300, 200 and even 100 years ago. Archaeology has uncovered the movement of soils and the creation of new hills and basins. Join Jim Gibb, head of the Smithsonian Environmental Archaeology Lab, for a journey across an ever-changing terrain. Starting at SERC’s historic 1735 Woodlawn House, he will narrate how a port town was buried in sediment, how garbage from Baltimore and Washington became a crucial resource for farmers, and how Eastern Europeans gradually came to reside on once-abandoned Maryland farms.

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