(2025) During the Great Depression, Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal paid for workers to conduct archaeological excavations as part of a work relief program. In this episode, we talk with Bernard Means about the archaeological digs in Somerset County and how they contributed to the expansion of knowledge about the Monongahela people. Means is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Virginia Commonwealth University and the editor of Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America.
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