Archaeology digs continue on Mashantucket reservation
June 03, 2015 12:00 am
• Last Updated: June 03, 2015 5:11 pm
Archaeology students and volunteers work at the "Raspberry Trail" Paleoindian archaeology dig supervised by Zachary Singer, a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut working in conjunction with Manshantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center staff, in the Great Cedar Swamp on the Mashantucket reservation Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
Mashantucket — Archaeology students and volunteers worked at the "Raspberry Trail" Paleoindian archaeology dig supervised by Zachary Singer, a doctoral student at the University of Connecticut working in conjunction with Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center staff, in the Great Cedar Swamp on the Mashantucket reservation Wednesday.
Singer recently revealed a set of 12,000-year-old artifacts discovered at a nearby site, named "Ohomowauke." That site is now closed but the Raspberry Trail site is similar and Singer hopes to prove similar Paleoindian occupation at that site.
Zachary Singer, a researcher with the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center and a doctoral student at UConn, shows a "overshot channel flake" from among the more than 900 chipping artifacts of the 12,000-year-old Paleoindian artifacts he discovered in 2012 at a dig site called Ohomowauke in the Great Cedar Swamp on the Mashantucket reservation Wednesday, June 3, 2015. That site is now closed but Singer is working on a new dig at a similar location in the swamp called Raspberry Trail and hopes to prove similar Paleoindian occupation at that site. (Sean D. Elliot/The Day) Buy Photo Reprints
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