Archaeology… Urban Arrowheads: VCU’s Quest for the Prehistory of Central Virginia 25 Feb 202225 Feb 2022 A Paper presented to the Annual Meeting of the Archeological Society of Virginia, 1996, slightly revised 2022 L. Daniel Mouer, Ph. D. Archaeology has been taught regularly at VCU since…
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…
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…
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… Reading “Jane Randolph Her Book.” 7 Jan 2017 To make Alamode Beef Take a Bullocks heart cut of ye Strings Skinns & Deaf ears & fat then Stick it with a Scewer in many Places, then take…
essay… Just Like a War Zone 7 Jan 20177 Jan 2017 First published in my memoirs volume, Warbaby, Talking About My Generation. This was written in 1998 at a time that I was in the process of confronting the realities of…