Burrell
Pharmacy Site
A turn-of-the-century Black-owned drugstore in Roanoke, Virginia, an article from African-American
Archaeology Newsletter, which you'll have to scroll down to read.
Cactus Hill
Site
A pre-Clovis site, dated to 15,070 years bp, in Virginia. Article in the Mammoth
Trumpet
Virginia's
First Clovis Site continuing research at Cactus Hill, reported in the Mammoth
Trumpet.
Pre-Clovis
Occupation an article in Athena Review.
Cactus
Hill: An update from Archaeology magazine.
Chatham
Ongoing research into gender relations at a nineteenth-century Chesapeake Virginia
plantation site; abstract from a talk at the 5th Gender and Archaeology Conference.
Cheat Summit
Fort
Winter quarters for McClellan's troops during the Civil War in 1861, an abstract of a
paper delivered at the 1996 Eastern States Archaeological Federation.
The Staunton-Parkersburg
Turnpike, why McClellan was at Cheat Summit Fort, was built in the 1840s, and test
excavated recently. VA
Colonial
Williamsburg
Excavations at the colonial period Rich Neck Plantation, Martin's Hundred, the
James Anderson Forge, and Chatham Plantation, by Colonial Williamsburg's Department of
Archaeological Research.
Corbin
Hollow
A report from Archaeology magazine on archaeological evidence that the so-called
isolated colonies of people in the Shenandoah River valley were no such thing.
Graham-White
Site
Native American village located in Salem, Virginia, with two components, one just before
European contact, and one just after, an abstract of a paper delivered at the 1996 Eastern
States Archaeological Federation meetings.
Fort Pocahontas
Site of a historic Civil War battle where in 1864, the predominantly black Union 1st and
10th Regiments beat the heck out of Confederate troops under General Fitzhugh Lee.
The Hunter
Site
From the Archaeological Society of Virginia, a paleoindian through archaic period
site in Virginia.
Jamestown
Jamestown Rediscovery is investigating the remains of 1607 Jamestown, Virginia.
Jamestown
Drought from William and Mary News, research suggesting drought affected the
early colonists of Jamestown.
African Skeletons from
Jamestown From the African-American Archaeology Newsletter, an article on the
analysis of 15 sets of human remains.
Slavery in
Jamestown an article on Doug Owsley's work on skeletal materials recently recognized
as African American slaves, in Discovering Archaeology.
Jefferson's
Poplar Forest
An article in African-American Archaeology Newsletter, an early
nineteenth-century slave cabin located approximately 650 feet east of the octagonal
dwelling house which Jefferson constructed in 1806 to serve as "an occasional
retreat." You'll have to scroll down some to get to the article.
Continuing investigations have provided a second article, and a third, in more recent
issues of the newsletter.
Kecoughtan
William & Mary, a 17th century trading plantation site in Hampton.
Martin's
Hundred
Two sites from Kevin Bartoy of the University of California at Berkeley; this one a public
archaeology site
A Return to
Martin's Hundred Also from Kevin Bartoy, includes report of recent investigations.
Monticello
Excavations of five slave cabins at Thomas Jefferson's plantation, dated from late 18th to
early 19th century, an article in African-American Archaeology Newsletter.
Matriarch
of Mulberry Row Excavations at Elizabeth Heming's house, matriarch of the
African-American family whose members worked as Thomas Jefferson's enslaved house servants
and artisans
Poropotank Creek
A 17th century midden site, from the Archaeological Society of Virginia
Salem
A rather touristy feel to this site, but it has quite a bit of historic and prehistoric
information.
Saltville
Site
A mastodon butchering site dated to 3,950 +/- 70 years; an article in the Mammoth
Trumpet.
Shuter's Hill
Archaeological investigations by the Office of Historic Alexandria focused on the 18th and
19th century occupations of this site near Alexandria.
Stratford
Hall Plantation
Archaeology at the home of Virginia's Lee family, including signers of the Declaration of
Independence and the Confederacy's leading general, a plantation from 1710s-1910s, an
article in African-American Archaeology Newsletter..
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