Thirty-Five Years at the Berry Site-Presentation/Annual Meeting

Tuesday, November 16 at 7pm, Online Event, click the link below

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In 1891, in a bulletin published by the Bureau of American Ethnology, the following description appeared: “Mound (about 15 feet high and unexplored) on the west bank of Upper Creek about 8 miles north of Morganton.”  Ninety-five years later, in 1986, David Moore began the first professional investigations of this archaeological site, now known as the Berry site, the location of the Native American town of Joara and the Spanish Fort San Juan.

For this presentation, Dr. Moore will talk about why he began the Berry site project, and he will describe what he and his colleagues, students, and volunteers, have discovered about Joara and Fort San Juan over the past 35 years.