The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery is pleased to announce that artifactual, contextual, and spatial data from the Utopia Quarter sites, including Utopia II, Utopia III, and Utopia IV, are now available on its website: http://www.daacs.org <http://www.daacs.org/> .  Utopia is located along the James River, approximately 4 miles south of Williamsburg, Virginia.  These sites were excavated by the James River Institute for Archaeology in the 1990s.

 

Other excavated slave quarter sites currently available through http://www.daacs.org include Poplar Forest's Quarter and North Hill sites, Buildings l, o, r, s, and t located at Monticello, the Richneck and Palace Lands Quarter sites excavated by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, House for Families, excavated by Mount Vernon's Archaeology Department, 44CJ298, excavated by the James River Institute for Archaeology and the Stratford Hall quarter site, ST116, excavated by Mary Washington University's Center for Historic Preservation.

 

Downloadable data, site maps, Harris matrices, and images related to all sites in DAACS are freely available to the public and may be used for research and as a teaching resource.  

 

DAACS is a community resource, built and maintained by the Department of Archaeology at Monticello, in collaboration with Colonial Williamsburg, the Fairfield Foundation , the Jamaica National Hermitage Trust, the James River Institute for Archaeology, the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, Mary Washington University Center for Historic Preservation/Robert E. Lee Memorial Association, Mount Vernon, North Carolina Office of State Archaeology, Poplar Forest, the University of South Carolina, the University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, the William and Mary Center for Archaeological Research (WMCAR), and the Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary.  

 

Please contact Jillian Galle at [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  for more information.