By Brooks McCabe   It’s the sixth week and final week of Poplar Forest’s archaeology field school. This week, the students wrapped up their excavations, and each student gave a […]

By Nancy Williams   This week, we learned about and participated in Public Archaeology. On July 4th, many members of the public came down to the site to learn about […]

By Jackson DeWitt   Week 4 of the Poplar Forest field school was one of the most exciting yet! We started out the week by expanding two of the test […]

By Morgan Reeder   It was a busy week for the Poplar Forest field school! We started off by taking a field trip to Monticello on Monday. We had the […]

By Kaitlyn Holmes   In our second week here at Poplar Forest, the field school started by listening to a very important and interesting lecture on historic ceramics. After the […]

By Emma Coffey   Poplar Forest’s 2022 Archaeology Field School began this week and already students are finding incredibly interesting things. Before the students began their initial excavations, they were […]

By J. Brooks McCabe This was the last week for our Field School students. The students wrapped up the remaining units behind the South Tenant House. The recovered artifacts date […]

by Savhanna Long This week was very exciting for our Field School students, as they finished up their units from the Stable Survey and moved onto the area behind the […]

By Mary Del Vecchio This week is about landscape archaeology. We began learning about the different subfields of archaeology like what pollen analysis can tell us and how GIS (Geographic […]

by Lewis Ward This week for Field School at Poplar Forest, we did quite a bit of traveling mixed in with our usual itinerary of digging. For the past few […]

by Melissa Penner The Archaeology Field School at Poplar Forest learned about the artifacts found during excavations in the past and applied these lessons to the theme of the week: […]

The department kicked off its 30th annual archaeological field school this Monday and welcomed seven undergraduates as students. For the next six weeks they’ll be writing our blog posts and […]