Week 1: Introduction to Poplar Forest and Historical Archaeology
Required:
Poplar Forest Lab and Field Manual (distributed on the first day of class)
Introduction; Field Procedures; History Sections

*Gary, Jack, Eric Proebsting, and Lori Lee, 2010.  “Culture of the Earth”: The Archaeology of the Ornamental Plant Nursery and an Antebellum Slave Quarter at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.

Heath, Barbara and Jack Gary, 2012.  “Two Tracts of Land at the Poplar Forest”: A Historical and Archaeological Overview of Thomas Jefferson’s Plantation Retreat. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.1-19. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Orser, Charles E., 2004.  Historical Archaeology.  Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Chapters 1, 6 and 8

Proebsting, Eric, 2012.  Seasons of Change: Community Life and Landscape at the Foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1740-1860. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.46-68. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Week 2: Material Culture
Required:
Poplar Forest Lab and Field and Manual
Lab Procedures; Ceramics, pp. 38-54; Notes on Glass; Notes on Metal

Banning, E.B., 2000.  The Archaeologist’s Laboratory: The Analysis of Archaeological Data.   Kluwer Academic, New York. Chapter 7

Orser, Chapter 4 and 5

Gary, Jack, 2012.  Ceramics and Jefferson’s Aesthetic Philosophy. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.85-104. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Miller, George L., Ann Smart Martin, and Nancy S. Dickinson, 1994.  Changing Consumption Patterns: English Ceramics and the American Market from 1770 to 1840.  In Everyday Life in the Early Republic, Catherine E. Hutchins, ed., pp.219-248.  Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE.

Week 3: Africans and African-American Archaeology
Required:
Heath, Barbara J., 1999.  Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Orser, Chapter 10

Lee, Lori A., 2012.  Consumerism, Social Relations, and Antebellum Slavery at Poplar Forest. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.172-188. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Select One:
Agbe-Davies, Anna.  An Engaged Archaeology for Our Mutual Benefit: The Case of New Philadelphia.  Historical Archaeology 44(1):1-6.

DeCorse, Christopher R., 1999.  Oceans Apart: Africanist Perspectives of Diaspora Archaeology.  In I, Too, Am America, Archaeological Studies of African-American Life, edited by T. Singleton, pp. 132-158.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Samford, Patricia, 1996.  The Archaeology of African-American Slavery and Material Culture. The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d Series, Vol. 53:87-114.

Sanford, Douglas W., 1994.  The Archaeology of Plantation Slavery in Piedmont Virginia: Context and Process.  In Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake, edited by Paul A. Shackel and Barbara J. Little, pp.115-130.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C.

Week 4: Landscape and Environmental Archaeology
Required:
Sobolik, Kristin D., 2003.  Archaeobiology.  AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek, CA.  Pp.75-97.

Trussell, Timothy, 2012.  A Landscape for Mr. Jefferson’s Retreat. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.69-84. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.  

Bowes, Jessica and Heather Trigg, 2012.  Social Dimensions of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slaves’ Uses of Plants at Poplar Forest. In Jefferson’s Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara Heath and Jack Gary, pp.155-171. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Select One
Bowen, Joanne, 1999.  The Chesapeake Landscape and the Ecology of Animal Husbandry.  In Old and New Worlds, Geoff Egan and R. L. Michael, editors, pp. 358-367.  Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK.

Kvamme, Kenneth L., 2003.  Geophysical Surveys as Landscape Archaeology.  American Antiquity 68(3):435-457.

Sullivan, K. A. and L. Kealhofer, 2004.  Identifying Activity Areas in Archaeological Soils from a Colonial Virginia House Lot using Phytolith Analysis and Soil Chemistry.  Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1659-1673.

Adams, William Hampton, 1990.  Landscape Archaeology, Landscape History, and the American Farmstead.  Historical Archaeology 24:92-101.

McKee, Larry,1996.  The Archaeology of Rachel’s Garden.  In Landscape Archaeology, Reading and Interpreting the American Historical Landscape, edited by Rebecca Yamin and Karen Bescherer Metheny, pp. 70-90, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.

Week 5: Public Archaeology
Required:
Orser, Chapter 12 and 13

Horning, Audrey, 2005.  Does Historical Archaeology Really Matter in Today’s World?  In Unlocking the Past: Celebrating Historical Archaeology in North America, edited by Lu Ann De Cunzo and John H. Jameson Jr., pp.200-204, University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 

Select one:
Horton, Lois, 2009[2006]. Avoiding History: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemmings, and the Uncomfortable Public Conversation on Slavery. In Slavery and Public History, edited by James Oliver Horton and Lois E. Horton, pp.135-150, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.

Shackel, Paul A., 2003.  Archaeology, Memory and Landscapes of Conflict.  Historical Archaeology 37(3):3-13.

* Booklet provided on the first day of class