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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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