[MassHistPres] Areas of Water on the NR

[Bjdurk at aol.com]

Your  intriguing question, Mr Tucker, should be posed at  the presentation 
by Archeologist & Author, Dr. Thomas F. King.  I  hope that you and others 
will be able to attend. 

"King, who has worked  in various agencies of the U.S. government and is 
co-author of  the National Park Service’s “Guidelines for Evaluating and 
Documenting  Traditional Cultural Properties,” will address the subject “Is 
Nantucket Sound a  ‘Traditional Cultural Property’?” Monday, November 23, at 
7:00 PM at the  Tilden Arts Center  of Cape Cod Community  College." 
In the context of past archeological survey conducted  in Nantucket Sound:  
Victor  Mastone, director and chief archaeologist of the Massachusetts 
Board of  Underwater Archaeological Resources:  Regarding  the Nantucket Sound 
find that has scientists abuzz with the discovery of a  preserved forest that 
rests below the  sea, maybe artifacts from ancient cultures do, too -- 
items that could help  answer some of the most vexing questions about early 
people in North America. As  more energy projects are proposed off New England, 
archaeologists say, there will be  more opportunity for even bigger finds. 
''We've been arguing for years whether  there are remnant prehistoric 
landscapes out there and now we know they can  exist," said Victor Mastone.  ''This 
 means there is the potential to go after the big theory of how did people 
get  here and how they lived." 
David Robinson, senior underwater archaeologist for The Public  Archaeology 
Laboratory Inc. in Pawtucket, R.I.: ''That's why the  Nantucket Sound site 
is important," said David Robinson who discovered the  Nantucket Sound site 
two years ago.  ''It provides evidence to say these land forms can survive," 
he  said.   
Thank You,  
Barbara Durkin  

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