A trove of projectile points, drills, and other artefacts some 5,000 to 9,000 years old have been unearthed as part of the Herring Run Archaeology Project - a free, community-based, volunteer public archaeology programme in northeast Baltimore (Maryland, USA) operating since 2014. Other finds include pottery shards from the more recent Woodland Period (circa 1,000 BCE to 1,000 CE), some of which are handsomely decorated. Artefacts of the same kind have been found all over this mid-Atlantic USA state, but the new discoveries add as many as 9,000 years to the history of the city. Stones used for some tools provide evidence of trading or migration over a considerable area.
     The site has two freshwater springs, and was probably used as a seasonal hunting and fishing camp for many centuries. As the name implies, the long narrow park follows part of the course of the Herring Run River, which joins the Back River a few kilometres downstream, where they feed a sizeable tidal inlet.

Edited from BaltimoreBrew (4 December 2021)