Getting to Wye House
I’ve been working at Wye House for three years now. One impression that myself and many of our students are left with is its isolation and remoteness. In the field school van, it takes more than an...
View ArticleIntersections of Place, Landscape, and Spirit at Wye House
This is a shortened version of my paper for the 2014 Society for Historical Archaeology annual conference, delivered at the beginning of January. I contributed to the second part of an exciting session...
View ArticleArchaeologies of Conflicting Ideologies: Frederick Douglass, Democracy, and...
The following post comes from a paper I presented at the annual Society for Historical Archaeology conference held in Quebec City, Canada this January. Continue below for the body of the presentation....
View ArticleWelcome to Wye
Week Four. Day Two. Last Friday we concluded our time at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). Our excavation at SERC proved to be insightful but a certain element of intrigue...
View ArticleSERC vs Wye House: Similarities and Differences
As a relatively new student to the discipline of archaeology, I thought it was interesting to note the differences and similarities between the excavations of the first three weeks of the University of...
View ArticleReal World Archaeology: A Student’s POV
As the previous blog post stated, last week was our first week working at Wye House, the plantation where Fredrick Douglass lived as a slave. Ever since June 3rd, we have been hard at work excavating...
View ArticleArchaeology: Its Kinda a Muddy Mystery
So I’m not going to lie, when my group (Sarah and Drew) and I began excavating test unit 89 at Wye House I thought it was going to be a quick and somewhat dirty job; now, all I can say is it has been a...
View ArticleBlacksmiths, Backfilling, and Final Thoughts
The final week of Archaeology in Annapolis for the 2014 field season has led me to reflect on the journey that those of us new to archaeological field work have faced in the last six weeks. Familiar...
View Article“This Gave Me Great Influence Over Them”
Wee Frederick Douglass, Source: Kate Beaton The following is a modified version of the talk that I co-wrote with Benjamin Skolnik and presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology conference...
View ArticleFilming Archaeology at Wye House
The beginning of the video, showing images of the Wye House mansion and the Lloyd slave censuses. Source: Assemble Studio. Last summer was the last time Archaeology in Annapolis will likely excavate at...
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