10/12/2024
9:00am - 4:00pm
Join us on Saturday, October 12, as Historic Jamestowne commemorates Virginia Archaeology Month.
Events listed below are included with admission to the Preservation Virginia portion of Historic Jamestowne.
Archaeology Day Schedule
9:00am–4:00pm: Archaeology in Action!
Share in the moment of discovery at the original 1607 James Fort. Meet the Jamestown Rediscovery archaeologists and learn about ongoing excavations as well as the latest discoveries. In James Fort.
10:00am-11:00am and 1:00pm-2:00pm: James Fort Archaeology Walking Tour
Join an archaeologist for an in-depth tour of the 1607 fort site and learn about this season’s excavations and new discoveries. Tour begins at the Pocahontas Statue.
10:00am-4:00pm Forged in History
Blacksmithing was one of the earliest trades practiced at Jamestown. Join blacksmith Shel Browder for demonstrations and a discussion of the metalworking done at the site of the original James Fort forge. In James Fort.
10:00am-4:00pm Native Lifeways of the Chesapeake
Join Daniel Firehawk Abbott of the Nanticoke people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore to learn about the material culture and lifeways of the Tidewater Algonquians as well as their interactions with the settlers of Jamestown. In James Fort.
10:00am-4:00pm “Pales, posts, and railes …”
Building a fort proved a necessity for the colonists within a month of their 1607 arrival. Timber Frame Carpenter Danny Whitten and 17th century building fabricator Jesse Robertson will demonstrate the tools and methods used by the first colonists to build everything from the fort walls to buildings. In James Fort.
10:00am-4:00pm “A tractable trade”
Learn firsthand about the trials of the first English settlers and their experiences exploring the Chesapeake from Anas Todkill, one of the settlers who explored the bay with Captain John Smith. In James Fort. **
11:00am-12:00pm The Powhatan and The English Walking Tour
Join Public Historian Mark Summers for a program discussing the interactions, trade, and conflict between English colonists and the Powhatan Paramount Chiefdom based on archaeological evidence. Tour begins at the Pocahontas Statue.
2:00pm-3:00pm Powhatan: 1622
Join Public historian Mark Summers for a brand new tour of James Fort. Learn about the Powhatan resistance to the English colony from 1607 to the events of March 22, 1622. Tour begins at the Pocahontas Statue.
** Sponsored by The Edward Maria Wingfield Endowment Fund established by The Wingfield Family Society to honor Wingfield as soldier, investor and Jamestown’s first president.
