Wayland Uncovered: Archaeological Evidence of Our First Residents, Saturday, October 19, 2-3:30pm at Wayland Town Building (Large Hearing Room).

SPEAKER: Tonya Largy, M.A., Archaeologist & Coordinator of the Wayland Archaeology Group

Native Americans came into what is now Wayland sometime after the glacier receded approximately 12,000 years ago. Since 1978, five excavations of pre-contact sites have been carried out in Wayland. These excavations gathered more than thirty radiocarbon dates. The oldest actual date on record is 6680+170 years “Before Present.” However, artifacts recovered from these sites represent periods going back to 8000 years ago.
One site was excavated under a state permit over a twenty-eight year period and the dates obtained from that work indicate that Native people continued to live here for thousands of years until the arrival of Europeans.

SPONSORS: Wayland Historical Commission and the Wayland Historical Society
COST: Free