13,000 Years Into the Past: Archaeology of the Ice Age in Maryland - A Maryland Day Celebration

Name: 13,000 Years Into the Past: Archaeology of the Ice Age in Maryland - A Maryland Day Celebration
Start: 2026-03-20T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Odenton Heritage Society

Schedule

Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Odenton Heritage Society | Odenton, MD

Odenton Heritage Society invites you to explore what life was like in central Maryland 13,000 years ago– before there were iron mines, farms or railroads. Maryland State Archaeologist Dr. Zachary Singer will share his research on the earliest inhabitants of Maryland and share discoveries he has made with the “Maryland Fluted Point Survey.” He has now documented scores of stone projectile points made during the Ice Age here in Maryland— between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. Dr. Singer, and archaeologists from Anne Arundel County and the Lost Towns Project will be on hand to share how you can get involved in local archaeological excavations.
Limited space, registration required.
Doors open at 6pm- Explore the Odenton Heritage Society exhibits before the lecture starts at 6:30. A Q&A and artifact display will close out the evening.
The Maryland Fluted Point Survey (MDFPS), first formalized in the late 1960s by Tyler Bastian, Maryland’s first State Archaeologist, was relaunched in 2020 to compile data on the distinctive projectile points created by the early Native Americans known to archaeologists as Paleoindians. This data will be synthesized to study the lifeways of the Paleoindians who lived in Maryland during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago.
Speaker Biography
Zachary Singer received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 2017. Zac is the State Terrestrial Archaeologist for the Maryland Historical Trust. His research interests include eastern North American archaeology, Paleoindian lithic technology, three-dimensional digital modeling of artifacts, and geophysical remote sensing.