Schedule of events for the 2007 Field School
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UNE 3 - JULY 6, 2007
WEEK ONE | WEEK TWO | WEEK THREE | WEEK FOUR | WEEK FIVE

WEEK ONE

Monday, June 4
8:15-12:00

Announcements
     Overview of course requirements
     Overview of Poplar Forest and Thomas Jefferson
     Overview of 2007 research design/project goals, B. Heath
     Field methods and site etiquette, J. Gary
     Lab overview, L. Lee

12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 House and Wing Tour, G. Pond
2:30-4:00 

Archaeology sites walking tour

Tuesday, June 5

8:15-9:00 “Soils and Site Stratigraphy,” J. Gary
9:00-12:00 Field Work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00  Field Work

Wednesday, June 6

8:15-9:00

“Understanding Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest Landscape,” B. Heath

9:00-12:00 

Switch with architecture field school, T. McDonald

12:00-12:45 Lunch

12:45-4:00 

Field Work

Thursday, June 7

8:15-9:15  Reading historic maps
9:15-12:00 Plantation walk
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field work

Friday, June 8

8:15-12:00 Field Work 
12:15-1:00  Lunch
1:00-2:15 "Poplar Forest Prehistory", K. Adams
2:30-4:00 Discuss readings

WEEK TWO

Monday, June 11

8:15-9:30 "What artifacts tell us, an Introduction the Lab", L. Lee
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Tuesday, June 12, Trip to Monticello
8:15 Meet at Poplar Forest
9:30-10:00 Arrive at Monticello
10:00-12:00 Tour
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:22-2:30 Tour
2:30 Leave to return to Poplar Forest

Wednesday, June 13

8:15-9:30 "Artifact dating and chronologies, Part I", L. Lee
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Thursday, June 14
8:15-9:30 "Artifact dating and chronologies, Part II", L. Lee
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Friday, June 15

8:15-12:00

Field and lab work

10:00-12:30 Monticello Landscape Institute here in AM w/B. Heath
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-3:00 Field and lab work
3:00-4:00 Discuss readings

WEEK THREE

Monday, June 18

8:15-10:00 "Archaeological Perspectives on Enslavement in Virginia," B. Heath
10:00-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Tuesday, June 19

8:15-9:30 "The Archaeology of Slavery:  Looking at Portable Material Culture", L. Lee
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:40-4:00 Field and lab work

Wednesday, June 20

8:15-9:30 "Archaeology at the Hermitage," D. Brock
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:40-4:00 Field and lab work

Thursday, June 21, Trip to Werowocomoco and Fairfield

8:00 Meet at Poplar Forest
11:00-12:00 Tour Werowocomoco
12:00-1:00 Leave for Fairfield
2:00-4:00 Tour Fairfield (possibly Rosewell also)

Dinner with Werowocomoco, Fairfield, and Rosewell field school participants and archaeologists.

Friday, June 22, Jamestown

9:00 Leave hotel
10:00- Arrive in Jamestown, tour site
4:00-5:00 Arrive back in Lynchburg

WEEK FOUR           

Monday, June 25
8:15-9:30 "Archaeology and Forensics," S. Johnson
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Tuesday, June 26

8:15-12:00  Field and lab work
12:00-12:45  Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Wednesday, June 27

8:15-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-2:00 "Presenting Archaeology on the Web", M. Freeman, Stories Past
2:00-4:00  Field and lab work

Thursday, June 28

8:30-9:30 "Archaeological Theory of Landscape and Culture," B. Heath
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and land work

Friday, June 29
8:15-10:00  Discuss readings
10:00-12:00 Field work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

WEEK FIVE 

Monday, July 2, Journals due at the end of the day
8:15-9:30 "Preparing Archaeology Resumes," J. Gary, L. Lee, K. Adams, B. Heath
9:30-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Tuesday, July 3
8:15-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Wednesday, July 4, Independence Day Celebration

9:00-5:00 Public Archaeology

Thursday, July 5
8:15-10:00 Discussion of Readings
10:00-12:00 Field and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-4:00 Field and lab work

Friday, July 6

8:15-12:00 Field Work and lab work
12:00-12:45 Lunch
12:45-? Final site updates and interpretations, students
Final discussion session “What have we learned?”
Evaluations
evening Final party 
 

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