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16th Century Timber-Framed House

A typical Woodland-period house

Acorns and hickory nuts

An atlatl, or spear thrower

Animal snare

Arrow points

Badin pottery fragments

Bannerstones

Base camp

Beachfront dune

Beringia

Brainstorm

Broken spear point from Stanly County, NC

Calculating radius from a portion of a circle

Ceramic bowl from Macon County, NC

Ceramic figurine from Haywood County, NC

Ceramic pot from Cherokee County, NC

Ceramic pot from Haywood County, North Carolina, ca. AD 1000-1400

Ceramic pot from Macon County, North Carolina, ca. AD 1500

Ceramic pot from Orange County, NC

Ceramic pot from Orange County, North Carolina, ca. AD 1700

Ceramic urn from Richmond County, North Carolina

Changes in spear-point styles during the Archaic period in North Carolina

Chipped-stone adze from Stanly County, North Carolina, ca. 8500 BC

Chipped-stone drill from Stanly County, NC

Civil War Reenactment: Firing a musket

Clay pipe from Cherokee County, North Carolina, ca. AD 1500

Clay pipe from Montgomery County, North Carolina, AD 1000-1600

Close up of green leaf

Clovis point

Clovis spear point from North Carolina, ca. 10,000-9000 BC

Colington cooking pot

Colonial couple statue

Conch-shell gorget from Stokes County, NC

Connestee pottery fragments

Diagram of twisting fibers to make cordage

Establishing a tree-ring sequence by means of the bridging method

Excavating a site

Excavations at the Hardaway site

Fabric-impressed pottery from Halifax County, North Carolina, 1000 BC-AD 500

Firing mechanism from Stokes County, North Carolina, AD 1650-1700

Geologist Robert Butler investigating an ancient stone quarry

Goosefoot

Hardaway point

Hardaway spear point from Stanly County, North Carolina, ca. 8500 BC