MTSU student Clacey Farley sorts out dirt during archaeology field school in Eagleville, Tenn., on Thursday.
MTSU student Josh Bicknell, foreground, measures one of the dig sites while MTSU student Eric Stockton records the measurements during the archaeology field school at Magnolia Valley in Eagleville, Tenn., on Thursday.EAGLEVILLE, Tenn. – Some say the history is written in stone. For archaeologists, it’s written in the dirt.
In Rutherford County, history is about to get rewritten by MTSU professor Tanya Peres.
Peres recently launched the Rutherford County Archaeology Research Program, an initiative to explore and record the prehistoric cultures of the county.
“We are going to survey the county as completely as possible and record all the prehistoric sites,” Peres said.
Since the birth of the United States, it was believed that no ancient people lived in Rutherford County.