The Edmonds Historical Museum’s second annual Archaeology Night got into full swing Friday evening, giving visitors the chance to bring in those odd, dusty items they’ve been saving for years to have them examined by professional archaeologists in the hope of learning more about them.
Think PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow,” but with an academic twist.
On hand to help were archaeologists from Edmonds Community College, Snohomish County, the Willamette Cultural Resources Association, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington State Department of Transportation and more.
“We’ve had some incredible artifacts brought in this evening,” said museum volunteer and professional archaeologist Emily Scott. “Folks have come in with a number of projectile points (arrowheads to us non-professionals), china pottery pieces, ground stone tools, historic dolls, a fishing spear from the Pacific Islands, and an extremely well-preserved Mayan vase, to name a few.”
The event proved popular, with more than 60 visitors dropping in within the first hour.
“Attendance is way up from last year,” said Museum Director Katie Kelly. “I’m looking forward to next year’s Archaeology Night already.”
— Story and photos by Larry Vogel
I live in Northern Nevada in a place close to the immigrent trail that was used by wagon trains more then 150-180 years ago known to have been used for the California gold rush. There is no history of the place where I live listed on record, I have found a lot of artifacts related to what used to be a foundry…possibly also a mass grave that the U.S. army does not want the public to know about…even to this day, the whole state during the civil war was divided with loyalties to the Confederacy and the Union. The foundry was used for melting gold, silver, run by civilians loyal to the confederacy, they also made weapons for the Indians in secret…they wanted another war along with the Indians as an ally, also in secret gold confederate coins was sent here to be melted down into ingots from back east in secret. I have not done any digging…I believe there is a large underground cave benieth my house.