Hayti Dump-1890s trash deposit

Excavations of the Hayti Dump located near the DBAP in Durham produced hundreds of artifacts related to the affluent African-American community in Hayti which was sometimes identified as “the Wall Street of the African-American community.” This late 19th-early 20th century artifact collection has recently been processed by volunteers and students working at the Office of State Archaeology Research Center. Artifacts included numerous bottles, fragments of metal, glass, and porcelain as well as unique objects such as a French-manufactured shaving cream jar and a small porcelain figurine.–Dr. Billy Oliver

Lecture Series line-up

The Coe Foundation is collaborating with the North Carolina Museum of History, the Division of State History Sites and Properties, and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science to establish “The Joffre Lanning Coe Lecture Series.” The North Carolina Humanities Council is also contributing funding to help make this series a success.

The four-part series, to run through 2007, will feature archaeologists
Dr. Stanley South, noted historical archaeologist, Dr. George Stuart, Mayan specialist, Dr. Stephen Potter, Civil War expert, and Dr. David Hurst Thomas, Curator at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

Look for more about this series in our next newsletter.

Coe Foundation

The Coe Foundation for Archaeological Research is dedicated to the preservation of North Carolina’s archaeological past as well as to the education of the public about the richness and variety of the state’s archaeological resources.

Volunteers and interested non-archaeologists have been crucial to the work of CFAR from the beginning. This Weblog will serve as an online journal about the work those volunteers are doing, as well as a convenient place to keep everyone up-to-date on the events and projects with which CFAR is involved.