Rhode Island Archaeology Month

Organized by the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission, this program promotes Rhode Island's rich archaeological heritage through a series of free public educational events in October led by professional archaeologists.

Visit the 2024 Calendar for details on upcoming programs.

Check out images from past Rhode Island Archaeology Month events below:

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An archaeologist from Salve Regina University's Cultural and Historic Preservation Program demonstrates how to use ground penetrating radar to locate unmarked graves in 2016 (©RIHPHC).

Smowtown tour 2021

Archaeologists from the Public Archaeology Laboratory, Inc. giving a historical and archaeological tour of Providence's Snowtown and Great Point neighborhoods in 2021 (©RIHPHC).

College Hill excavation

The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World leading a volunteer dig at the historic Moses Brown School Site in Providence in 2015 (©RIHPHC).

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Tomaquag Museum staff and University of Rhode Island faculty leading a collaborative history and archaeology tour of the Kingston Campus in 2019 (©RIHPHC).

Jacob East Providence stones that speak

A historian from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation giving a tour of Bristol's historic East Burying Ground in 2015 (©RIHPHC)

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The University of Connecticut's Robert Thorson leading a tour about the history, geology, and stone walls of Paradise Valley in 2016 (©RIHPHC).

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A University of Rhode Island archaeologist leading an archaeological and historical tour of the former Rhode Island State Home and School in 2017 (©RIHPHC).

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Kayak tour of the "ship graveyard" at East Providence's Green Jacket Shoal, 2018.

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An archaeologist from the University of Rhode Island's Applied History Laboratory discusses local archaeology during the Charlestown Historical Society’s Revolutionary War Encampment event at the Amos Greene Farm, 2018 (©RIHPHC).

Past Rhode Island Archaeology Month Programs: