"Salvage archaeology": Athanassopoulos helps recover artifacts from construction site

Photo Credit: Bottle
Bottle
Wed, 08/28/2019 - 13:21

Photo from Lincoln Journal Star: a medicine bottle from Lincoln druggist H.W. Brown.

The Lincoln Journal Star story "Gin bottles in the cistern—History unearthed at Capitol-area construction site" explains how Effie Athanassopoulos, associate professor of anthropology, helped Matt Hansen, the Capitol’s preservationist architect, recover thousands of artifacts from an active construction site.