Beads have been very important to North American indigenous populations for a very long time. The Augustine Mound, for example, is a burial site almost 3000 years old in New Brunswick, not very far from Oak Island, that contains over a thousand copper beads. The late Tricia Jarratt did a comprehensive study of them in…
Curse of Oak Island Archaeology Update: The Phips Iron and Lot 5
Season 11 of the Curse of Oak Island (COOI) has featured the finds of iron objects from Lot 5, both because they could be associated with a large pit structure in the same area, and because they are said to be a match, in terms of chemical composition, with iron objects found at the 17th…