My name is Amanda Phelps, and I am the archaeology lab intern for January 2014. I am a senior at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY, with a major in Anthropology […]

By: Joshua Ritzman and Anne Poulos This week we continued working at Sites A and B, the potential location of a slave cabin and a stable. Remains of the building’s […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

Why is our teapot spinning?!

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 […]

Two of the major questions archaeologists attempt to answer when cataloguing artifacts is the identity of the manufacturer and when an object was made. This can be very difficult or […]