Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

5/1/1972 - 8/31/1974

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$61,100.00 (approved)
$61,100.00 (awarded)


The Making of Maryland's Tidewater Society: A Research Partnership Betweet History and Historical Archaeology

FAIN: RO-11817-72

Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC 20560-0001)
Wilcomb E. Washburn (Project Director: May 1972 to present)

To study the origins of American society in the tidewater South. To provide a comprehensive historical context for an important series of excavations on the last major unexplored seventeenth century urban site in English-settled America.