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Boston’s Big Dig rerouted the city’s highway corridors in the 1990s into tunnels extending from Charlestown to South Boston. It also provided archaeologists with a unique opportunity to explore sites associated with the area’s earliest Native American and European inhabitants. This illustrated presentation highlights human adaptations to Boston’s marine and coastal setting over the past 2,000 years, as well as colonial-period sites that were “frozen in time” in 1775 on the day of the Battle of Bunker Hill.
Steven R. Pendery, Ph.D., served as a Project Archaeologist in the early stages of Boston’s Big Dig and later helped to manage the project as Boston’s City Archaeologist. He has served on the faculties of university departments in the US and Canada, and was an Acting Northeast Regional Archaeologist for the National Park Service.
Steve Pendery
