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Plantation Survey
Monticello's Plantation Archaeological Survey is an effort to create a complete archaeological inventory of the 2000-acre tract currently owned by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
DAACS
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
DAACS is a community resource, conceived and maintained in the Department of Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with the research institutions and archaeologists working throughout the Atlantic World. DAACS helps archaeologists and scholars learn more about enslaved Africans and their descendants living in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean during the Colonial and Ante-Bellum Periods.
Learn how archaeologists use technology to foster comparative research and scholarly collaboration.
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PageMulberry Row Reassessment
A major initiative is the reassessment of excavations conducted on building sites along Mulberry Row by Monticello's archaeologists in the 1980s using modern analytical techniques.
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![An aerial view of excavations at Monticello showing two people standing in one of about 10 neatly dug excavation squares and rectangles, while another person bend over one of four wheelbarrows with covered by dry screens for sifting soil from artifacts.]()
PageArchaeological Field School
The summer Monticello-UVA Field School offers a hands-on introduction to basic excavation, recording, and laboratory techniques in archaeology.
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![Drawing of Jefferson's mill house and water wheel and other buildings along the Rivanna River and showing a post-Jefferson train track running alongside.]()
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A selection of videos about the work and findings of the Monticello's Department of Archaeology.
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