Word: ica
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...Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaelogy (ICA) has received funds to analyze artifacts found in the Yard last August for information about the social and cultural environment of Cambridge in the 17th and 18th centuries...
Mike Roberts, administrative director of the ICA, said yesterday all of the artifacts will be carefully analyzed and compared with items previously discovered in Cambridge...
...ICA archaeologist, Randy Moir, noticed the yard excavations last August while walking past Harvard Hall. Further investigation uncovered bits of glass and ceramic dating from the colonial era, along with several other important artifacts, Moir added...
Moir contacted the ICA and immediately workers began altempting to salvage some of the excavated artifacts...
Roberts said that now the ICA is waiting for funds which they requested of the MBTA after the salvage operation for laboratory and historical analysis of the artifacts. He added he hopes to see the analysis completed over the winter moths, if the funds are approved in the coming weeks...