Archaeology Club at Sweet Briar College
(founded Fall 2005)

Come Explore the Past with Us!

Events - Spring 2008

Black History Month Lecture:
"Sweet Briar Founders: Archaeo-Historic Evidence for the African-American Community"

Dr. Lynn Rainville
February 19th, Noon, Prothro
Photo: Mr Sterling Jones and his Family, circa 1910

Guest Lecture:
“From farms to forests: The archaeology of an Appalachian landscape.”

Jodi Barnes, Dissertation Candidate, American University
March 19th, 2008

A lecture on her work in Amherst County on a Free Black settlement in the Shenandoah Mountains

Past Events:

Visit to the Monacan Ancestral Museum Meet in the Post Office Parking Lot at 3pm on October 19th. We will also select designs for the t-shirt. -------------------- Movie night on October 30th at 7pm -------------------- Learn to Dig and Use a Total Station on Sweet Briar's Historic Campus with Dr. Claudia Chang and Mr. Perry Tourtellotte Oct. 13 and Oct. 27, 9am until Noon Meet at the Bistro Parking Lot. ------------------- Archaeology Month Lecture: "A Sweet Survey: archaeological investigations at the Sweet Briar Plantation" Dr. Rainville October 3rd, 6pm ----------- Family Portraits: Virginian Indians at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. A Photographic Exhibition on display in the Benedict Art Gallery Fall 2007. Gallery talk by Native American Leaders, 4:30, Sept. 14th, 2007, Tyson. On-line at: www.faculty.sbc.edu/lrainville/VAIndiansExhibit/ ------------- Lecture: April 23, 2007 Dr. Esther Jacobson Kerns Professor of Art History University of Oregon "Art in the Landscape: the Rock Art of the Altai Mountains, Mongolia" ----------------------- Digging up Sweet Briar's Backyard: Archaeology at an 18th Century House On Campus Excavations conducted by Ms. Celine Beauchamp in Spring 2006.
Archaeology Club Meeting - March 9th , 2006: watch Tomb Raider II and discuss the ethical problems with its representation of archaeology.
Archaeology Club Meeting - February 9th, 2006: Movie Night !
Lecture: Oct. 6th, 2005: Prof. Rainville, Everyday Life on the Sweet Briar Plantation, 1840-1860
Spring 2005: Excavate on Paul Mountain with Mr. Perry Tourtellotte
If you are interested in joining the Archaeology Club, please contact Tiffany Meadows (meadows08@sbc.edu)

Club Officers:	President	Tiffany Meadows
	Vice President	Danielle Hains
	Treasurer	Sarah Ansani
	Secretary	Bethany Melendy
Members Fall 2007: Tiffany Meadows '08 Laura Gandy '07 K. Mariah Hoelz '11 Jordan McIntire '11 Sarah Ansani '08 Mai McCarthy '11 Heather McTague '11 Bethany Melendy '09 Emily Green '09 Priscilla Farley '11 Pamela Farley '11 Katie Miller '09 Virginia Dancy '09
Below: 2007 Club Officers, L to R: Bethany Melendy, Tiffany Meadows, and Danielle Hains

Below: 2005 Club Officers, L to R: Tiffany, Laura, Sarah, and Virginia

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Archaeology Club at Sweet Briar College (founded Fall 2005)

Events - Spring 2008

Archaeology Club at Sweet Briar College
(founded Fall 2005)