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Leah leads a group of DAACS attendees across the site

The Archaeology of Slavery

In 2019, I was offered the opportunity to apply to an NEH funded fellowship, the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) Summer Institute. This program […]

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November 8, 2022
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Director of Archaeology David Givens, Preston Senderoff, and graduate student Stephanie Scialo inspect the sediment in the core sample.

What Lies Beneath the Swamp

This past Wednesday, members of the Jamestown Rediscovery team joined Dr. Will Ouimet of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut (UConn) and […]

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November 4, 2022
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Director of Collections & Conservation Michael Lavin holds a rusted King's Touch Token next to an X-ray of the object.

Restoring our X-ray Capabilities

X-ray technology is a valuable tool for the conservators at Jamestown. Often times artifacts excavated around James Fort are covered in so much rust that they […]

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September 9, 2022
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Archaeology for Everyone

When it’s my turn to give the 11am Archaeology tour, I usually start off by telling people about my background and how I got started in […]

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August 4, 2022
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Digging with Cultural Connections

I started my internship opportunity rather timid and reserved, because I did not think that I was worthy to be part of such a dynamic and […]

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March 28, 2022
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World Soil Day

In December 2013, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly designating December 5, 2014 as the first official World Soil Day. After years of digging at James […]

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December 3, 2021
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