Archaeology is n’t always about battlefields , ancient systema skeletale , and exploring the Temple of Doom . research worker have of late been rooting around the archaeological web site of a much more recent , but no less significant , chunk of history : the Woodstock Music and Art Fair of 1969 .
As report by theAssociated Press(AP ) , the Binghamton University ’s Public Archaeology Facility just finished up a 5 - day excavation in the fields of the festival on the site of an old dairy farm in Bethel , New York ( pictured below ) .
You might need yourself , why do archaeologist call for to excavate a wide - documented event from subsist memory ? Well , it seems that memories of the fete are jolly fuzzy in places ( for some inexplicable reason ) .
The team ’s main foreign mission was to figure out where the iconic stage once stood . The concert ’s 50th anniversary will be next class , so the localMuseum at Bethel Woodsis hoping to bear out walking tours around the hallowed earth . It also does n’t assist that the ill-famed , and much less peaceful , anniversary concert of Woodstock ‘ 99 disturbed much of the surrounding land .
Combined with an aeriform sight of the orbit , the archaeologists ' snooping led them to a fix in the ground that was the site of a chain - link fencing that hold back the fans from the leg .
“ We can use this as a reference point , ” project theatre director Josh Anderson narrate theAP . “ People can stand on that and reckon up at the pitcher’s mound and say , ‘ Oh , this is where the performers were . Jimi Hendrix stood here and trifle his guitar at 8.30 in the morning . ’ ”
As for the artifacts at the land site , there ’s not much in the way of flower child gear , nor any trace of the festival ’s performers , which include big epithet from the late 1960s medicine scene , include Jimi Hendrix , The Who , Grateful Dead , Canned Heat , Richie Havens , Joe Cocker , Santana , Jefferson Airplane , Joan Baez , and Sly and the Family Stone .
They did , however , find a bunch of beer can attract tablet and bit of upset nursing bottle methamphetamine .
While many hoi polloi might shudder at the thought of comparing the event to a heavy war or the passing of an important law , the Woodstock Music and Art Fair ' 69 remains one of the most defining milestones in US history . Much more than a music fete , it has become an icon of post - war America and a rose - tinted symbol of peace , love , and harmony .
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