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Do-It-Yourself Digs

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Photo: Courtesy of Warren Wilson College Archaeology
North Carolina, USA

In Search Of: Pottery, tools, and other remnants of one of the earliest European settlements in the United States.

The Dig: Fort San Juan, a Spanish compound.

The Details: Summer sessions up to a month long are offered at Warren Wilson College’s archaeology field school, where adults and kids as young as 14 are put on sites to dig and excavate history while uncovering a 16th-century Native American town and an early Spanish settlement. The 2008–2009 sessions concentrate on a one-acre area featuring what is believed to be Fort San Juan, a Spanish compound that is the earliest European settlements ever found in the interior of the United States. $300 per week.

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