Indigenous Artifacts

Avocational Archaeologist, David McKenna, shares his knowledge of local indigenous tools. This presentation will encompass the many locations around town where Archaeological evidence and primary sources point to occupation by precolonial Peoples, and the incredible varied artifacts they used in their daily lives, living in harmony with the world around them, perhaps as much as, or even possibly beyond 10 millennia.
The Danvers Historical Society acknowledges that their properties are within, and this event is upon, the ancestral homeland of the Naumkeag band of the Massachusett/Pawtucket Tribes and Agawam people of the Algonquin tribe. DHS is committed to incorporating study and dissemination of this land’s Native History into its mission.

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When we continue to teach others that all the ancient Americans and Native Americans did were make weapons were continuing a narrative that was created, which put them in a box named savages. There are so much more art than there are weapons, however, it goes unrecognized by modern eyes. Luckily, we found a site in North Carolina, which is teaching us how to see the art once again.