Plantations and Farmsteads
Levi Jordan Plantation Home Page
The Levi Jordan plantation was built in 1848 by Levi Jordan, his family, and the people who worked for them as slaves and, later, as tenant farmers and sharecroppers. This website by Carol McDavid contains a wealth of information about all of the occupants of the site.
Recreating Raised Field Agriculture in Bolivia and Peru - A Lesson in
When researchers went to recreate ancient agricultural methods on farms in Bolivia and Peru, they discovered something very interesting about the way farming can and can't work.
Real World Archaeology
A farmstead in Iowa provides an introduction to the way archaeology impacts those of us living in the present.
Curriboo Plantation (USA)
Curriboo Plantation is the name of an 18th century farming operation in South Carolina, in the southeastern United States.
Slavery
In the last 100 years or so, archaeology shifted from a focus on past rulers and other elite persons to the study of less-fortunate people, including the relationship between slaves and their masters.
Plimouth Plantation, US
The Plimouth Plantation is the name given to the living history farm in the location of the archaeological site, remnants of a 17th century English colony.
Plantation Archaeology
Plantation archaeology is the study of plantation life, usually in the American southeast, but also Australia, South Africa and other European colonial places in the world