Dear HISTARCHers,

Please take some time to check out the new web site for the project, "A
Comparative Archaeological Study of Colonial Chesapeake Culture," at
www.chesapeakearchaeology.org.  

This web site invites colleagues to explore issues and questions about
early colonial culture in Maryland and Virginia in comparative
perspective by presenting a wide range of information about 18 domestic
sites spanning the period c. 1620-1750.   You will find site summaries,
maps, artifact images, reports, papers, and downloadable maps and
databases in a variety of formats.  The site also includes a database of
all 18 sites that allows for basic searches on line.

The web site is designed to grow.  If, in your research, you make use of
this data, we would be glad to post your reports.  

This project represents a collaborative effort by colleagues from the
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Anne Arundel
County's Lost Towns Project, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation,
George Washington's Fredericksburg Foundation, Historic Mount Vernon,
the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, and the Virginia
Department of Historic Resources. 

Greg Brown and Heather Harvey, both at CW, and Catherine Alston,
formerly with the MAC Lab, deserve special acknowledgment for their work
at designing, building, and adding content to the web site.  

Finally, this project has been funded in part by generous grants from
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Department of
Historic Resources.  

If you have any suggestions, ideas, or comments (or, gasp, you find any
errors), please contact me at [log in to unmask]

Julia A. King
Project Director