
VMNH Assistant Curator of Archaeology Dr. Hayden Bassett returns to the VMNHcast, this time to talk about the Smith River Survey, a two-year project to assess the status of archaeological sites along the Smith River. In this episode, Dr. Bassett sits down with VMNH Administrator of Science Ben Williams to discuss how these sites are inspected, the indigenous peoples who once lived along the Smith River, and the threat that climate change poses to these valuable sites.