Waste Not Want Not: What a Colonial Midden Can Tell Us

By Ross K. Harper (c) Connecticut Explored, Fall 2012 Subscribe to Receive Every Issue!   All images courtesy of Archaeological and Historical Services, Inc. Archaeology is unique among the sciences in that it uses discarded bits and pieces left behind by past cultures to reconstruct human history. Archaeological excavations at a number of 18th-century house … Continue reading Waste Not Want Not: What a Colonial Midden Can Tell Us