291 The World of the Wampanoag, Part 2: 1620 and Beyond
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Before New England was New England, it was the Dawnland. A region that remains the homeland of numerous Native American peoples, including the Wampanoag.
When the English colonists arrived at Patuxet 400 years ago, they arrived at a confusing time. The World of the Wampanoag people had changed in the wake of a destabilizing epidemic.
This episode is part of a two-episode series about the World of the Wampanoag. In Episode 290, we investigated the life, cultures, and trade of the Wampanoag and their neighbors, the Narragansett, up to December 16, 1620, the day the Mayflower made its way into Plymouth Harbor.
In this episode, our focus will be on the World of the Wampanoag in 1620 and beyond.
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's world is a production of the |
| 0:02.2 | Omaha Institute and this series was made possible with support |
| 0:06.8 | from mass humanities. |
| 0:08.1 | If you're enjoying the world of the Wamponog series, |
| 0:11.4 | you may also be interested in a new archaeology exhibit at the Plymouth |
| 0:15.2 | Petuxet museums. This exhibit commemorates the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower, and it's called |
| 0:21.4 | History in a New Light, |
| 0:22.8 | Illuminating Archaeology of Historic Patuxet in Plymouth. |
| 0:26.4 | Founded in 1947 is a museum. |
| 0:29.2 | Plymouth Patuxet offers powerful personal encounters with history |
| 0:32.4 | built on thorough research, about both the Wampanog people and the colonial English community that settled amongst them in the 1600s. |
| 0:41.0 | Plymouth Batuxet also maintains one of the most significant repositories |
| 0:45.0 | of New England's 17th century archaeology. |
| 0:48.0 | The exhibit History in New Light, |
| 0:50.0 | illuminating archaeology of Historic Petuxet in Plymouth, uses archaeology, documentary research, oral history, and fine and decorative arts. |
| 0:59.0 | It is the first major exhibit to display artifacts from both the Wamponog Village of Patuxet and the site of the original |
| 1:05.3 | 1620 European settlement, which were discovered beginning in 2016 by Project 400 archaeologists. Project 400 400 Archaeologists. |
| 1:16.0 | Project 400 is an ongoing archaeological research initiative conducted in partnership with the Andrew Fisk Center for Archaeological Research |
| 1:20.2 | at the University of Massachusetts Boston, |
| 1:22.4 | the town of Plymouth, and the Plymouth Patuxet museums. |
| 1:26.0 | Now in addition to finding the first evidence of these overlapping settlements, |
| 1:30.0 | this research has forced scholars to re-evaluate their understandings of daily life in early Plymouth, |
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