By Ryan McDowell Six weeks, gone by in a blink of an eye, but time is strange like that.  Logically, standing outside in the hot sun all day, digging up […]

Anthropomorphic clay tobacco pipes, also sometimes called figural pipes or face pipes, were a popular type of commemorative souvenir in the nineteenth century. Pipe manufacturers often made pipes depicting the […]

By Sara Griggs and Ashley Pickard This week we field students opened Sites A and B; they are potential slave quarter sites with a possible sub-floor pit.

By: Kendell Porter and Andrea Zona Though Monday morning started off rainy, we were able to get out into the field every day this week. We were all very excited […]

It’s time to admit a difficult truth…archaeologists are not perfect. We are not omniscient and the artifacts we recover during excavation are sometimes misidentified. One of the many reasons why […]

Imagine that you have a small mountain of puzzle pieces in front of you of all shapes, sizes, and colors. You don’t know how many puzzles are represented by the […]

Why is our teapot spinning?!

In August of 1822, Reverend S.A. Bumstead of Maryland was traveling in the Charlottesville area and happened to see Thomas Jefferson out for a ride. According to the Reverend: “He […]

By Marissa Sarver and Alex Covert On Monday the field school began working in the Archaeology lab due to rain. We learned how to clean artifacts and also how to […]

Week 1 By: Nathanael Kreimeyer and Helena Gray On Monday, the students of Poplar Forest Field School began the excavations searching for the precise location of Thomas Jefferson’s Vegetable Garden. […]

Welcome to Poplar Forest’s Department of Archaeology and Landscapes new blog. Here you will find news and updates on one of our current major projects: the Wing Re-analysis. The main […]