Documentary Short Produced as Part of 'Anytown, USA' Project at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies
Trace: Town Creek Indian Mound and the Rise of Scientific Archaeology in North Carolina (2018)
When a student archaeologist was dropped off in a Montgomery County cotton field in 1937 to investigate a problematic Indian mound, there’s no way he could have known the project would last 50 years. Joffre Lanning Coe would develop academic archaeology in North Carolina and establish the state’s only historical site dedicated to archaeology at Town Creek. But just down the road, a town doctor was busy becoming one of the most prolific artifact collectors of his generation.