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DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark A Trickett.

From the timber-framed homes in the South Yard for domestic servants to the log cabins of the Stable and Field Slave Quarters, the housing for the enslaved community at Montpelier mirrored that found on many plantations in the Mid-Atlantic region. Recent excavations at an agricultural structure--the Tobacco Barn--produced a domestic assemblage that suggests the co-option of work structures for temporary worker housing. This paper explores the evidence for variable-duration housing at Montpelier...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hannah James.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Race, Racism, and Montpelier" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Vesselization is an essential method for more accurately understanding the number, form, and use of vessels at a site. When paired with new technologies, like GIS, it can be used to understand how people’s behavior and interactions with the landscape affect how vessel sherds are deposited. Working with legacy data, I used GIS to identify vessels...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin C Kirby.

While much work at James Madison’s Montpelier looks at the differences in faunal remains between sites, the amount of intra-site analysis is lacking. This paper seeks to explore the relationship between previously analyzed faunal remains and their physical locations within the South Yard. The majority of domestic tasks at Montpelier centered around the South Yard, which included three dwellings for domestic slaves, two smokehouses for cured meats, and a kitchen where Nelly Madison had her meals...