"Salvage archaeology": Athanassopoulos helps recover artifacts from construction site

August 28, 2019

Bottle

Photo from Lincoln Journal Star: a medicine bottle from Lincoln druggist H.W. Brown.

The Lincoln Journal Star story "Gin bottles in the cistern—History unearthed at Capitol-area construction site" explains how Effie Athanassopoulos, associate professor of anthropology, helped Matt Hansen, the Capitol’s preservationist architect, recover thousands of artifacts from an active construction site.