Spatial Sampling and Interpretation of Building Sites at Liberty Hall

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

People have impacted the Liberty Hall landscape for thousands of years, though with the greatest intensity between 1782 and the American Civil War. During this time the majority of people who lived here were held captive and forced into agricultural, light industrial, and infrastructural labor by elite enslavers closely tied to Washington and Lee University and its predecessor institutions. Since the 1970s, the university has tried to re-imagine this landscape to include important historical interpretation of these sites, but within the context of greater and greater impact by the University's present-day needs. This poster continues the work started by Professor John McDaniel and his students fifty years ago to re-imagine the past landscapes of Liberty Hall. We do this here with an expanded understanding of who shaped these historic cultural landscapes, and through digitally modeled 3D rendering that represents the best of our understanding from historical documents, archaeological excavation, and oral histories.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 35914.0