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Published on: 3/26/2007
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Wayne Clark, foreground, and Edward Wright Haile pause before shovel testing for the Native American village of Rassawrack.
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This springâ€"before tick seasonâ€"I accompanied Haile and Wayne E. Clark, an archaeologist and Native American researcher and Maryland's director of museum services at the Maryland Historical Trust, out in Virginia's lower peninsula forests looking for Rassawrack.
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Clark said Native American hunting parties would establish their camps along dry ridges.As we worked our way down the slope toward the head of a U-shaped valley, he noted, "There should be a trail here down to the spring.
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Clark dug several test pits with his shovel, looking for evidence of Native American habitation: a stone flake, bit of pottery, evidence of fire-cracked rock from a cooking site.He found none.