Student Research

Archaeological Reseach Conducted by Sweet Briar Undergraduates

Mallory Sherwood ‘08 Children’s History Hunt in Charlottesville’s Court Square Fall 2007	Melissa Hardison ‘08 Artistic reconstruction of 19th Century communities Fall 2007	Ebie Baker ‘11 Research into SBC and Amherst, early 20th Century Fall 2007 & Spring 2008	Elizabeth Young ‘11 Transcribing Daisy’s Journal and Cemetery inscriptions Fall 2007
Luna Dellaporte ‘08 Archaeology of Gardens at Sweet Briar Spring 2007	Tiffany Meadows ‘08 Archaeology of the Underground Railroad Spring 2007	Katie Miller ‘09 and Crystal Collins '10 Research into the Christian Aid Cemetery Fall 2007 & Spring 2008	Bethany Melendy ‘09 Children’s website to learn about Ante-bellum Toys Fall 2007 & Spring 2008
Nicole Bergeron '06 Excavations & Analysis of the Paul Mountain Site Fall 2005	Stacy Toup '06 Research on Historic African American Cemeteries in Amherst Fall 2005	Tiffany Meadows '08 Research into African American Heritage in Amherst Fall 2005	Kelsey Dellaporte '08 and Meggy O'Neal '08 Analyzing Artifacts from the Sweet Briar Plantation Fall 2005
Sarah Ansani '08 Bibliographic Research Fall 2005	Amanda Strickland '09 Designing Archaeological Activities for Kids (K-12) Fall 2005	Virginia Dancy '09 Identifying Faunal Remains from Mesopotamian Households Fall 2005	Kim Wadelton '07 Artist's Reconstruction of Sweet Briar's Slave Cemetery Fall 2005
Dana Ripperton '05, Sasha Levine '05 , and Mandi Ponton '05 Using a Total Station to Map Ante-Bellum Sites at Sweet Briar Spring 2004	Karli Sakas '06 Preliminary Insights on Kazakh Culture: Presented at the MARCUS Conference (2003)	Jodie Weber '06 and Lindsey Nash '05 , Mapping Archaeological Sites Using GPS Units and GIS Maps Summer 2004	Dana Spivey '04 Archaeological Draftsperson for The Kazakh American Talgar Project
Sasha Levine '05 Mortuary Variability in the Christian Aid Cemetery, Amherst, Virginia Honors Research Summer 2004	Lauren Banks '06 Mammal Morphology and Taphonomic Processes in the Archaeological Record May 2004	Karli Sakas '06 Computer Assisted Research into Ceramic Assemblages at Ziyaret Tepe Spring 2004	Dana Ripperton '05 & Mandi Ponton '05 Research into a Slave Cemetery, Avoca May 2004
Sarah Martin '07 Scanning Ceramics from an MRI Analysis of Sherd Composition Spring 2004	Anne Mathias '04 Transcribing Oral Histories about Sweet Briar's Past Spring 2004	Mandi Ponton '05 Analyzing Animal Bones in the Zoo-Archaeology Collection Fall 2004	Anne Mathias '04 Compiling Archaeological Records for the Ziyaret Tepe Archaeological Project Spring 2004
	Sasha Levine '05 Archaeological Research in Kazakhstan Summer 2004	Dana Ripperton '05 Archaeological Research in Kazakhstan Summer 2004

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