by Kerri Barile | Mar 15, 2024 | Archaeology, Fredericksburg
By Adriana Moss Fredericksburg has a wonderfully rich occupation spanning thousands of years. However, when it comes to historic tourism, efforts have commonly focused on the city’s prominence during the Civil War, maybe a little bit of our role in early colonial...
by Kerri Barile | Feb 16, 2024 | Archaeology
By Sarah Rodriguez, Isabella Gordineer, and Adriana Moss Nestled in between Massanutten, Hanse, Dean, and Hasselback Mountains in the Shenandoah Valley is a well-preserved historic mountain town called Elkton. Located in Rockingham County, Virginia, Elkton’s historic...
by Kerri Barile | Jan 18, 2024 | Archaeology, Artifact, Glass
By Colleen Betti When you think about artifacts associated with schoolhouses, slate pencils, writing slates, ink bottles, and marbles come to mind. But when I excavated at three 1880s–1950s African American schoolhouse sites in Gloucester County, Virginia for my...
by Kerri Barile | Dec 7, 2023 | Archaeology, Artifact, Glass
By Lee Priddy and Bill Liebeknecht The start of the 19th century saw the transition from powdered wigs as the fashionable hair accessory to flawlessly groomed, short hairstyles for men. The popularity of neatly trimmed hair and facial hair, the preference for brown...
by Kerri Barile | Nov 3, 2023 | Archaeology, Artifact, Stoneware
,, By Bill Liebeknecht While conducting a controlled Phase I archaeological surface collection of a precontact site in northern New Jersey for a proposed development, an unusual find was discovered: a dense, polished, cylindrical-shaped piece of chiastolite....
by Kerri Barile | Sep 29, 2023 | Archaeology, Artifact, Stoneware
By K. Lee Priddy “When does a specific artifact date from and how do you know?” is one of the most frequent questions that I receive when talking to the public. It allows me to discuss manufacturing dates of ceramics, bottles, and metals and the methods that we...