Lecture at UVM Will Dig into Lake Champlain Bridge Project

The Center for Research on Vermont kicks off its Research in Progress Seminar Series this fall with "9,000 Years of Life Under the Bridge: The Archaeology of Chimney Point", by John Crock, director of the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program (UVM CAP) and assistant research professor of anthropology.

The talk will take place Tuesday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Waterman's Memorial Lounge.

As part of the larger construction process of the new bridge spanning Lake Champlain between West Addison, Vt. and Crown Point, N.Y, Crock and the UVM CAP team recently finished their own construction: that of 9,000 years of human history. Evidence of Native American settlement, a French Fort from 1731, and one of Vermont's first pottery kilns was found from excavating just one-half acre of land where the old bridge had been.

Crock will talk about the historical and archaeological importance of these findings with respect to Native American and European history in Vermont. Crock has been conducting archaeological research for almost 25 years. 

The Center for Research on Vermont looks to "offer a continuing forum for scholarly discourse on Vermont" through this seminar series.