The videos presented here were produced in collaboration with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, for use in a wide-variety of Monticello educational programming. Check back for regular updates.
The videos presented here were produced in collaboration with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, for use in a wide-variety of Monticello educational programming. Check back for regular updates.
Join Dr. Jillian Galle and DAACS collaborators for a dynamic conversation about current research projects in Florida, Jamaica, South Carolina, and Virginia. Hear from Dr. Ivor Conolley and Dr. Suzanne Francis-Brown about their research with DAACS in Jamaica. Learn about Sarah Stroud Clarke's and Corey Sattes' work at Drayton Hall, South Carolina. Hear how Dr. Karen Smith is using DAACS on prehistoric and contact-period sites in South Carolina. Sean Devlin discusses his use of DAACS at Mount Vernon, as well as for his dissertation research in Jamaica. Finally, Dr. Gifford Waters talks about FLMNH and DAACS collaborations and the Comparative Missions Archaeology Portal. Recorded October 23, 2020.
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Join Crystal O'Connor, Monticello's Archaeological Research Manager, and her field crew as they excavate Site 6, a field quarter for enslaved laborers at Monticello. Archaeologists have discovered at least three domestic areas that were lived in by enslaved men, women, and children during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Premiered October 21, 2020.
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Join Derek Wheeler, Monticello's Research Archaeologist, to learn more about archaeological research at Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to dozens of enslaved laborers throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.
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Learn about recent archaeological discoveries in Monticello's South Pavilion Cellar, where highly-skilled enslaved chefs, James Hemings and Peter Hemings once cooked.
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Learn about recent archaeological discoveries in Monticello's South Pavilion Cellar.
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