Heirloom Wisdom: Propagating Garden Archaeology Beyond Williamsburg

Summary

Marley Brown's investment in and foresight toward environmental and garden archaeology during his tenure at Colonial Williamsburg has created a community of scholarship and professional archaeologists that has adopted these research domains in a more scientific, critical, and publicly-engaged way than before.  Garden and environmental arcaheology are frequently topics of interest to historical archaeologists but have a checkered record of application.  This paper examines how lessons learned, and techniques refined at Colonial Williamsburg and the College of William and Mary under Marley Brown's leadership have been translated and successfully applied to garden investigations at Amache, a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp in Colorado, a context greatly removed from the Colonial-era Chesapeake.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2015   •
• Making waves: A celebration of the scholarship and influence of Marley Roberts Brown III

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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