Heath is Director of Archaeology at the Virginia site, which, like Monticello, offers considerable evidence about slave life at the turn of the 19th century. She fleshes out the archaeological framewo
One hundred years in the life of a founding father’s 5,000 acre “retreat”“Poplar Forest embodies the culmination of Jefferson’s vision of the American agricultural ideal. This highly readable volume i
Material Worlds examines consumption from an archaeological perspective, broadly exploring the intersection of social relations and objects through the processes of production, distribution, use, reus