Archaeology in the Monticello Magazine
Archaeology in the Monticello Magazine
Scroll below to check out Archaeology and DAACS work featured in recent articles of the Monticello magazine.
"Bridging Continents and Cultures: The Global Impact of DAACS" by Jillian Galle
Did you know that Monticello is home to one of the longest running digital archaeological archives in the world? For over 20 years, the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery at Monticello has helped scholars and the public understand the early modern Atlantic World in which Jefferson lived. It does so by sharing archaeological data from early modern slave societies, allowing us to frame Monticello in its larger Atlantic context. Check out some of this work and learn about collaboration between the DAACS team and colleagues in Suriname and St. Croix! (Monticello Magazine Fall/Winter 2023)
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"How We Know What We Know: Research and Discovery at Monticello" by the Monticello Department of Archaeology
Monticello is much more than a great place to visit. It’s also a bustling hub of interdisciplinary research, where curators, archaeologists, historians and scholars of all types come together to continually expand the limits of what we know about history. Their work is driven by documentary evidence, material culture, oral histories, and - of course - archaeology. Learn about how archaeological research has been so important for better understanding life at Monticello! (Monticello Magazine Fall/Winter 2023)
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"In Search of Answers: Archaeologists Piece Together the Past" by the Monticello Department of Archaeology
Check out a short summary from the beginning of the 2023 field season at the Monticello Home Farm Quarter Site 30, a domestic site where enslaved field laborers lived in the late 18th century! This is an important archaeological project that is expanding our knowledge of all people living on the plantation and the ways in which they participated in local trade and networks of exchange. (Monticello Magazine Spring 2023)
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"The Mysteries at Site 6: Archaeological Clues about Slavery at Monticello" by Fraser Neiman
Learn about excavations from Summer 2017 when Monticello archaeologists, aided by students in the Monticello-UVA Archaeological Field School and by participants in the Getting Word Oral History Project, explored a plot of land hidden in the woods. There, in the place known archaeologically as Site 6, a treasure trove of archaeological finds is helping answer new questions about slavery at Monticello. (Monticello Magazine Winter 2018)
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