Celebrate Virginia Archaeology Month with Monticello’s Department of Archaeology. Drop in anytime for exhibits and conversations with our archaeologists about discoveries at Monticello and the comparative research that helps us understand them.
TODAY’S SCHEDULE
10:30 a.m. Lightning talk
11:00 a.m. Walking tour
12:30 p.m. Lightning talk
1:00 p.m. Walking tour
2:30 p.m. Lightning talk
3:00 p.m. Walking tour
Exhibits open all day
Walking tours · one hour
See what current excavations reveal about Jefferson’s changing designs for the ornamental landscape, the sources he drew on, and the labor required to carry them out.
Lightning talks
The latest from “Cracking the Colonoware Code,” an NSF-funded project led by the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS). It explores colonoware, a locally made earthenware found at Monticello and across the slavery-based societies of the Chesapeake and Southeast.
Free for UVA and PVCC students and Monticello members