Research
Hacimusalar Excavation | Tyler Jo Smith
Research in the plain of Elmalı and excavations on the mound of Hacımusalar, 17 kms. south of Elmalı in the central Lycian plateau of Turkey has been ongoing since 1993. The project is under the direction of İlknur Özgen of the Department of Archaeology, Bilkent University, with field director Elizabeth Baughan, University of Richmond. Team members include students and colleagues from several US-based institutions, including UVa.
Contact: Prof. Tyler Jo Smith Monticello | Fraser D. Neiman
The Department of Archaeology is dedicated to studying and preserving Monticello's archaeological record, and to deciphering its meaning through comparative research. Historical topics of special focus in the Department's fieldwork include landscape history and slavery, both at Monticello and in the Chesapeake region. The Department is home to the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, an Internet-based initiative designed to foster collaborative research and data sharing among archaeologists. The Department also houses extensive artifact collections from past and ongoing archaeological fieldwork at Monticello.
Contact: Monticello Archaeology Flowerdew Hundred | University of Virginia Library
Featuring archaeological artifacts excavated at Flowerdew Hundred, a historic site on the James River, this exhibit presents material evidence of Virginia's early inhabitants: Native American pottery sherds; arms and armor used to defend the new colony; refined, imported wares from Europe; and American-made goods, including items manufactured by African Americans.
Contact: Karen Shriver, Curator |
Chaco Research Archive | Steve Plog
The Chaco Research Archive is an online resource providing access to a wealth of information documenting the history of archaeological research in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The archive includes material from dozens of sites excavated in the Chaco Culture National Historical Park and beyond.
Contact: Online Contact Pompeii Forum Project | John Dobbins
The Pompeii Forum Project is a collaborative research venture that is archaeologicaly based, heavily dependent upon advanced technology, and so conceived as to address broad issues in urban history and urban design. Evidence gathered to date challenges commonly held and widely published notions about the evolution of the forum, especially during the final years of the city's life. The goals are to provide the first systematic documentation of the architecture and decoration of the forum, to interpret evidence as it pertains to Pompeii's urban history, and to make wider contributions to both the history of urbanism and contemporary problems of urban design.
Contact: Prof. John Dobbins Morgantina | Malcolm Bell
The main focus of the American excavations at Morgantina is to publish the many decades of data produced from the 1950s to 1980s. We are collaborating with our Sicilian colleagues on several fronts: new displays in the museum; visitors’ itineraries and signage (in Italian and English) on the site; and the preservation and restoration of the many structures and objects from the site.
Inhabited as early as the Bronze Age, Morgantina had an important Iron Age settlement of longhouses centered on an acropolis known as the Cittadella. In the second quarter of the sixth century B.C., buildings that are Greek in construction technique and decoration appear, and the cemeteries seen a major influx of imported Greek ceramics. Contact: Prof. Malcolm Bell |
