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This is an abstract from the session entitled "The World Turned Upside Down: Revisiting the Archaeology of the American Revolution" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper reports on recent archaeological and geophysical investigations at Cook’s Fort, Monroe County, WV, constructed by local militia in 1774 during Dunmore’s War and garrisoned by militia and used as a place of refuge by settlers throughout the Revolutionary War. During these wars this...
Ben Franklin’s Mastodon Tooth, Frederick Douglass’s Arrow Point, and a Deadeye from a Revolutionary War Shipwreck: A Decade of Historical Archaeology in the Virtual Curation Laboratory (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond the Classroom: Campus Archaeology and Community Collaboration" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Virtual Curation Laboratory (VCL) was formally established at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in August 2011 using funding from a Department of Defense (DoD) Legacy Resource Management Grant and a partnership with Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCBQ). The impetus for this cooperative project led by...