Archaeology… Chesapeake Creoles: The creation of folk culture in Colonial Virginia 24 Feb 202024 Feb 2020 A somewhat more complete scholarly version of this essay was originally published in The Archaeology of 17th-Century Virginia, Theodore R. Reinhart and Dennis J. Pogue, editors, pp. 107-123. The Archaeological Society of…
Culture Wars… Back to the Garden, August 2019 21 Aug 2019 Parts of this essay appeared originally in Changes magazine, August, 1969. This version is adapted from Chapter 10 in my book of memoirs and essays titled Warbaby: Talking About My…
Archaeology… Rebecca’s Children 22 Sep 201812 Apr 2023 This is another chapter from my unplublished book, Digging Sites and Telling Stories: Essays in Interpretive Historical Archaeology." As such many of the tidying-up chores of a published work, such as filling…
Culture Wars… Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Terror 17 Feb 201831 Mar 2023 1/17/2018 If a man with a handgun openly displayed on his hip walked out onto the main street of Dodge City when the town’s cops were Wyatt Earp and Bat…
Archaeology… Monumental Decisions 18 Aug 201718 Aug 2017 Some Timely Thoughts for August 18, 2017 In 1996, I was asked to participate in a panel of scholars and prominent citizens in an open forum as the Commonwealth…
Archaeology… A True Story of the Ancient Planter and Adventurer in Virginia, Captaine Thomas Harris, Gent., as Related by his Second Sonne 15 Mar 201715 Mar 2017 Published as "Archaeology Through Narrative: Captaine Thomas Harris, Gent," in Historical Archaeology, Volume 32, Spring 1998. Tucson: Society for Historical Archaeology. The day before he was to die at the hands…
Archaeology… Archaeology of the Rocketts #1 Site 14 Mar 201715 Mar 2017 The link, below will take you to the complete Phase III excavation report of from a three-year urban archaeology project in Rocketts, the 18th- and 19th- century port of Richmond,…
Archaeology… Four Papers on Prehistory and Ethnohistory in Central and Eastern Virginia from the 1980s 14 Mar 201714 Mar 2017 Here you will find links to four papers concerning work my colleagues in two multi-year survey and excavation projects called The James River Survey and The Henrico Project. Thanks much…
Archaeology… A Pocahontas For All Seasons 12 Mar 20171 Apr 2023 A Review of Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend, by William M. S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton. Originally published in 1995. William and Mary Quarterly, Institute of Early American History, Williamsburg. Winter…
Archaeology… The Pisspot in the Museum or What are you looking for? What have you found? What will you do with it now? 12 Mar 20171 Apr 2023 This is a mid-late 1990s update of a 1985 presentation. I have written much about interpretation and critical narrative largely as they apply to method or epistemology. The word “interpretation”…
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