Aug 17 SI Anthropologists Announce Civil War Site Discovery

 
 

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Aug 17 SI Anthropologists Announce Civil War Site Discovery

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Year: 
1988
Month: 
august
Day: 
17
Date: 
Wed, 1988-08-17
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Aug 17 Curator Doug Owsley and Archaeological Dig Team Member Examine Bone at Antietam

A press conference is held in the National Museum of Natural History to announce the discovery and excavation of a previously unknown Civil War burial site at Maryland's Antietam Battlefield. The dig is coordinated by the Anthropology Department in conjunction with the National Park Service.