Maryland, 2000 BC with Archaeologist Jim Gibb

About this event

For more than a century, archaeologists have explored a poorly understood period in the Chesapeake region’s past, an era for which neither oral history nor written chronicles survive. Only those discarded items of everyday life that have survived decomposition over the millennia—mostly stone tools and the waste created in their manufacture—survive, and with these, archaeologists can test ideas about how we think Native Americans lived and how they interacted with their environs. This illustrated talk by archaeologist Jim Gibb examines what we have learned about Southern Maryland from the vantage of Mattawoman Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River that defines much of the boundary between Charles and Prince George’s counties.