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During the Graham Memorial site work in 1993\u201394, students and faculty conducted their work as an archaeological field school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We rarely think about the history that lies below our feet.<\/p>\n

But remnants of Carolina\u2019s history, hidden in some cases for thousands of years, have burst through the soil in virtual and actual forms thanks to a new walking tour.<\/p>\n

The Research Laboratories of Archaeology created a walking tour to show the dozen places on campus where archaeologists excavated and made discoveries about life before the University\u2019s founding and during its first 100 years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBeneath Our Feet: A Walking Tour of Archaeological Sites at UNC-Chapel Hill\u201d can be found at a website (http:\/\/go.unc.edu\/Qw47S) that fits whatever device you are using. A printed brochure is available for people who want to explore with paper in hand. The tour focuses on Carolina\u2019s original campus, beginning near the Carolina Inn and visiting 12 sites where excavations were made since 1991.<\/p>\n

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The virtual tour features the Graham Memorial site, where students and faculty found many artifacts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThis is a lovely website \u2014 a reminder that an archaeological excavation is not just scientific activity, but also a work of art. It also gives a glimpse of what it means for a university to carry out its mission in one place for 225 years,\u201d said Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, a senior associate dean in the College of Arts & Sciences whose oversight includes the RLA.<\/p>\n

Colloredo-Mansfeld and others are particularly struck by the photos and 3D images of excavations and artifacts such as everyday items, American Indian artifacts, wells and building foundations that make the tour come to life. The 3D images can be rotated and viewed from all sides, even from an underground view. Steve Davis, a Carolina research archaeologist, and undergraduate students created the 3D images.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe website allows us to talk about people\u2019s lives and campus life and the history of the land before campus in kind of mundane everyday ways that people don\u2019t bother to write down,\u201d said Margaret Scarry, RLA director and chair of the archaeology curriculum.<\/p>\n

Scarry was the one who suggested that the brochure be updated and a website created. \u201cGiven that we\u2019ve already done the work, it\u2019s fantastic to tap into some of the history of campus that will interest many people, instead of it being hidden below the landscape and available only in publications.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe website gives us a little more room to make things come alive for people, whether they\u2019re walking around or sitting in their home or office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Taking the tour<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tour begins near the Carolina Inn. There, you can see a 3D model of a stone-lined well, discovered in 2018 when workers repaved a driveway. A below-ground view shows the stones lining the well extending several feet down.<\/p>\n

Other highlights include the Graham Memorial site, the first on campus investigated by Carolina archaeologists. In conjunction with the University\u2019s 1993 bicentennial celebration, faculty and students worked on McCorkle Place\u2019s north boundary. They found items from what was originally a tavern house, then hotel, then boarding house called the Eagle Hotel throughout the 19th century and into the 20th century, when it became the University Inn.<\/p>\n

The Love House on Franklin Street was built on the site previously occupied by the home of Carolina\u2019s second president, Joseph Caldwell, until it was destroyed by fire. A 2004 excavation proved the site was also occupied well before Caldwell\u2019s time, with finds that included undisturbed evidence of a 1,500-year-old American Indian settlement.<\/p>\n

Remains associated with Steward\u2019s Hall, one of the first buildings on campus, were found near New East. Constructed in 1794 and used as a dining hall until 1816, the building was a center of University life. In 2007, excavators found numerous artifacts from the early 19th century, likely discarded trash-in the back yard of Steward\u2019s Hall.<\/p>\n

Work near Pettigrew in 1997 before construction of Hyde Hall found the site of a Phi Delta Theta fraternity house and, below that, of a privately-owned dormitory called the Poor House, razed before 1880.<\/p>\n

At Old West, a crawlspace exploration yielded many everyday items and an American Indian spear point that is thousands of years old.<\/p>\n

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Excavations in front of present-day Memorial Hall unearthed the portico foundation of Old Memorial Hall, built in 1885 and razed in 1930 because it was deemed structurally unsound. At right, Carolina archaeologist Vin Steponaitis stands over a 1992 excavation near Cameron Avenue.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Along Cameron Avenue, utility work and limited excavation revealed the foundation of a portico for Old Memorial Hall, which was torn down in 1930 because of its dangerous deterioration and replaced by Memorial Hall in 1931.<\/p>\n

Bringing the stories to life was largely the work of Davis, who worked on all of the excavations; Colleen Betti, a research assistant who works on public outreach and created the website; and Heather Lapham, a research archaeologist.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that this can be used by a variety of people, especially faculty and students who are trying to do something related to campus history or maybe public schools looking to do something on history and archaeology,\u201d Betti said.<\/p>\n

By Scott Jared, University Gazette<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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