By: Keisha Stoots On a sunny June morning, the 2014 Archaeology Field School students began our six week course at Poplar Forest. During this initial week, we focused on locating […]

by Samantha Fagone Week 2 of the Archaeology and Field school was full of new material as well as excitement for the upcoming field trip to Monticello that was to […]

By Emily Patton Smith Week 3 has seen an end to our relatively agreeable weather, as both heat and humidity—and an occasional afternoon thunderstorm—become more commonplace. However, our efforts are […]

By: Ryan Hodges Field Work: As we continue to uncover more of the carriage turnaround we are revealing much more of the area where we may potentially be able to […]

By Danielle Browley So many great and interesting things are happening at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest. We’ve been finding so many things artifact and feature wise in the field. The […]

By Ashley Stoots and staff contributions It is an anecdotally well-established rule among archaeologists that the final days of an excavation offer the most tantalizing discoveries, and this week proved […]

Over the last 3 years, archaeologists at Poplar Forest have excavated the Carriage Turnaround to understand what it might have looked like during Jefferson’s era and what changes the later […]

“So the ages have their dress and undress; And the gentlemen and ladies of Victoria’s time are satisfied with their manner of raiment…” W.M. THACKERAY — “THE ADVENTURES OF PHILIP” […]

by Caitlyn Johnson, Summer Research Intern Monday June 6 marked the start of the 2016 Poplar Forest Archaeology Field School. This year’s field work focuses on what is possibly a slave […]

By Logan Barger June 20th began the third week of archaeology field school at Poplar Forest, in which students gained an introduction into the field of Landscape and Environmental archaeology.  […]

By Lesley Jennings This week the field school students learned about the importance of public archaeology and the interaction between archaeologists and the public. Public archaeology uses various methods to […]

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 […]