The artifact, a clay "bundle," is filled with small pieces of metal and was unearthed in May from what had been an Annapolis street gutter three centuries ago.
"It is a very important artifact because it is early, because it is African in conceptual origin, and because it is a way of showing that at the point when the city received its (1708) charter, there was a public display of African magic," said University of Maryland...
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