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UM lab breathes new life into history of Annapolis

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Published 01/18/10

COLLEGE PARK - Cold winds may be blowing and the ground is definitely frozen, but the weather isn't slowing archaeologists in their decades-long effort to document Annapolis' past.

Earl Kelly — The Capital Prof. Mark Leone, and grad student Amanda Tang look at artifacts removed from archeological digs in Annapolis.
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The scientists have merely moved indoors to their lab at the University of Maryland, where they continue to make sense of the pieces of bone, shards of china, bits of spice bottles and slivers of metal that have been unearthed in Annapolis.

Right now, the scholars in the Anthropology Department are looking at artifacts found on Cornhill and Fleet streets downtown. With few exceptions, working-class whites lived on Cornhill Street 100 years...

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history - 2010-02-15 17:43:56

the part you missed Stanley was how they kept the rednecks in Mayo....go back to reading comic books...

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annapolis history..... - 2010-01-19 08:08:31

is this story about annapolis history.....eastport.....or african american history.....it seems the whole article is about blacks.....do you really care if they hooked up to the sewers or not ??..... or why ???........

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