THE 14TH ANNUAL
MONTICELLO-UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL
 
DATES:         June 15-July 24(6 Weeks, 6 Credits).
TUITION:       Virginia residents: $423; non-residents, $645 .
APPLICATIONS:  Due by April 17, 1998.
 
Monticello's Department of Archaeology and the University of Virginia's
Division of Continuing Education are pleased to offer a six-week
archaeological Field School during the summer of 1998.
 
The Monticello Archaeological Field School teaches the fundamentals of
modern, multi-disciplinary excavation techniques in historical
archaeology, their methodological motivation, and the substantive issues
in early Virginia social history addressed by archaeological evidence.
The field school offers 6 credits to both graduate and undergraduate
students, upon successful completion of the 6-week program. In the summer
of 1998, fieldwork will focus on components of the greater Monticello
plantation complex , including domestic sites that were the homes of
enslaved African-American workers.
 
THE PROGRAM
Students will learn basic archaeological excavation and recording
techniques required to execute successfully multi-disciplinary field
research strategies. Technical topics covered include recovery methods and
basic analytical possibilities for ceramics, faunal remains, plant
phytoliths and pollen, deposits and soils, sediment and soil chemistry,
and spatial distributions of artifacts. The social and economic dynamics
of Chesapeake plantation slavery are our historical focus.
 
FACULTY The course will be taught by Dr. Fraser Neiman, Director of the
Department of Archaeology at Monticello, and by the Department's staff.
Guest lecturers include:  Dr. Joanne Bowen, Department of Archaeological
Research, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (faunal analysis); Professor
Lisa Kealhoffer, Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary
(phytoliths, environmental reconstruction);  Professor Julie Stein,
Department of Anthropology, University of Washington (geoarchaeology),
Professor Camille Wells, Department of Architectural History, University
of Virginia (Virginia architectural history).
 
 
TUITION AND MONTICELLO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIPS
All participants in the field school will receive a Monticello
Archaeological Scholarship from the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.
This is a tuition grant that covers one half of the normal University of
Virginia tuition charge.  Taking into account this scholarship support,
total cost to students is expected to be $423 for students who are
Virginia residents and $645 for students who are not Virginia residents.
The Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia will make a final
determination regarding tuition rates in the spring of 1998.
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND APPLICATION
For additional information about the Monticello Archaeological Field
School and an application form, visit our web site at:
 
        http://www.monticello.org. Click on the "Plan Your Visit" Section.
 
Or call Ms. Derry Voysey, Internation Center for Jefferson Studies:
(804) 984-9864.