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Massachusetts Archaeological Society

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ65119843 ↗
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The Massachusetts Archaeological Society is an archaeological society based at the Robbins Museum, which it also runs, at Middleborough, Massachusetts. It publishes a scholarly journal, the Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society, and is a member of the Eastern States Archeological Federation.

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This entry incorporates text from “Massachusetts Archaeological Society” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.