Presented Papers and Posters:

2013:

• Book Review of Lois Roberts’ Dated in Blue: Underglaze Bue Painted Earthenware, 1776 to 1800. (PDF:2MB)
  By Jillian Galle. In Ceramics in America 2012, edited by Robert Hunter. The Chipstone Foundation.

Order a copy of Ceramics in America 2012 through The University of New England Press.

2012:

• Building a chronology for domestic slave sites at The Hermitage. (PDF:400K)
  By Jillian Galle, Leslie Cooper, Jesse Sawyer, Elizabeth Bollwerk, and Lynsey Bates, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2012. Memphis, TN.

• Meat Provisioning and Preference at Monticello Plantation. (PDF:1.2MB)
  By Elizabeth Sawyer and Joanne Bowen, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 2012. Baltimore, MD.

• Non-Site Survery on Monticello Mountain. (PDF:1.3MB)
  By Karen Y. Smith, Sara Bon-Harper, Derek Wheeler, and Fraser Neiman, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2012. Memphis, TN.

2011:

• Assessing the Impacts of Time, Agricultural Cycles, and Demography on the Consumer Activities of Enslaved Men and Women in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and Virginia. (PDF:4.2MB)
  By Jillian E. Galle, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  In Out of Many, One People: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Jamaica, edited by James A. Delle, Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas V. Armstrong. The University of Alabama Press, 2011, pp. 211-242.

• Site Structure and Slavery on Monticello Plantation in the Late-Eighteenth Century. (PDF:800K)
  By Karen Y. Smith, Sara Bon-Harper, and Fraser D. Neiman, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2011. Sacramento, CA.

2010:

• Yard Space: Comparisons of General Activity Areas between Historic Period Social Groups. (PDF:400K)
  By Sara Bon-Harper, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2010. St. Louis, MO.
• Monticello Before the Mansion: A Comparative Study of Early Domestic and Industrial Structures on Mulberry Row. (PDF:1.4MB)
  By Elizabeth Clites and Brian McCray, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2010. St. Louis, MO.
• Costly signaling and gendered social strategies among slaves in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake: an archaeological perspective. (PDF:2.6MB)
  By Jillian E. Galle, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  In American Antiquity. 75(1):19-43.
• Identifying change in household- and specialist-produced coarse earthenwares from 18th and 19th century Jamaican slave villages. (PDF:285K)
  By Jillian Galle, Leslie Cooper, Fraser Neiman and Ivor Conolley, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and The University of the West Indies, Mona
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2010. St. Louis, MO.
• The Stewart-Watkins Site at Monticello: an Investigation of Site Structure at the Domestic Sites of Free White Laborers and Enslaved African Americans. (PDF:1.3MB)
  By Donald Gaylord and Derek Wheeler, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2010. St. Louis, MO.
• Building a Regional Chronology from Diverse Digital Data: an example from Jamaica. (PDF: 400K)
  By Fraser Neiman, Jillian Galle, Leslie Cooper and Ivor Conolley, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and The University of the West Indies, Mona
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2010. St. Louis, MO.

2009:

• Spatial Variation and Activity Areas at Monticello’s Site 8. (PDF:585K)
  By Sara Bon-Harper, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2009. Atlanta, GA.
• Dynamic Diets: New Insights into Faunal Resource Use at Monticello Plantation. (PDF:425K)
  By Elizabeth Clites¹, Joanne Bowen², Fraser Neiman¹, and Karen Smith¹, ¹The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, ²The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2009. Atlanta, GA.
• Quarters in Comparison: The Fairfield Quarter in a Temporal and Geographical Context. (PDF:2.2MB)
  By Elizabeth Clites, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation. The African Diaspora Archaeology Network Newsletter, March 2009.
• Sugar, Slaves, and Shovel-Test-Pits: Preliminary Results from Nevis. (PDF:775K)
  By Jillian Galle¹, Fraser Neiman¹, Leslie Cooper¹, Derek Wheeler¹, Roger Leech², and Robert Philpott³,  ¹The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, ²University of Southampton, ³National Museums Liverpool/The International Slavery Museum.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2009. Atlanta, GA.

2008:

• A GIS-based analysis of plantation spatial organization: Stewart Castle, Jamaica. (PDF:132K)
  By Lynsey Bates, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, March 2008. Vancouver, B.C.
• Whose Trash Is This? Unraveling Ethnostratigraphy on Monticello Mountain. (PDF:320K)
  By Elizabeth Clites and Lynsey Bates, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, March 2008. Vancouver, B.C.
• “In Digging My Dry Well”: Examining Early Life on Monticello Mountain. (PDF:320K)
  By Elizabeth Clites and Lynsey Bates, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeology, January 2008. Albuquerque, NM.
  
• Slides For “In Digging My Dry Well”: Examining Early Life on Monticello Mountain. (PDF:5.3MB)
  By Elizabeth Clites and Lynsey Bates, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Historical Archaeology, January 2008. Albuquerque, NM.
  
• Uncovering Jamaican slave villages through spatial survey: methods and results. (PDF:775K)
  By Leslie Cooper, Jillian Galle, Fraser Neiman, Karen Hutchins, and Derek Wheeler,  The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, March 2008. Vancouver, B.C.
• Building a continuous chronology for studying early-modern Atlantic slavery (PDF:425K)
  By Karen Smith, Fraser Neiman, and Jillian Galle, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, March 2008. Vancouver, B.C.

2007:

• Surveillance and Production on Stewart Castle Estate: A GIS-base Analysis of Models of Plantation Spatial Organization. (PDF: 5.3M)
  By Lynsey Bates, The University of Pennsylvania and The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  B.A. Honors Thesis with Highest Distinction, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia.
• Regional Variation in Colonoware Manufacture and Use. (PDF: 5.3M)
  By Leslie Cooper and Karen Smith, The Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2007. Austin, TX.

2006:

• Strategic consumption: Archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake (PDF: 22M)
  By Jillian E. Galle, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, May 2006.
• Strategic consumption: Archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake (PDF: 104K)
  By Jillian E. Galle, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Slides for Strategic consumption: Archaeological evidence for costly signaling among enslaved men and women in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake (PDF: 5.8M)
  By Jillian E. Galle, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2006. San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2005:

• Studies of Colonoware Variability in Virginia and South Carolina (PDF: 1.4M. Print on 11 x 17″ paper or view PDF at 150%)
  By Leslie Cooper and Karen Smith, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, November 2005. Columbia, SC.
• How can Bayesian Smoothing Help Decipher the Occupational Histories of Late-eighteenth Century Slave Quarters at Monticello? (PDF: 281K. Print on 11 x 17″ paper or view PDF at 150%)
  By Fraser D. Neiman and Karen Smith, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Site Characterization: The Definition of Archaeological Sites using Plowzone Excavation Data (PDF: 528K. Print on 11 x 17″ paper or view PDF at 150%)
  By Derek Wheeler and Sara Bon-Harper, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2005. Salt Lake City, Utah.

2004:

• Methods in the Analysis of Slave-occupied Plowzone Sites at Monticello (PDF: 1.2M. Print on 11 x 17″ paper or view PDF at 150%)
  By Sara Bon-Harper and Derek Wheeler, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2004. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

2003:

• Model Consumers? Clues to Ceramic Acquisition at Slave Quarter Sites in the Greater Chesapeake (PDF: 1.8M. Print on 11 x 17″ paper or view PDF at 150%)
  By Beatrix Arendt, Jillian Galle and Fraser Neiman, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Scientific Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archaeology, April 2003. Denver, Colorado.

2002:

• An Elemental Approach to Ceramic Stylistic Analysis (PDF: 107K)
  By Jillian Galle and Fraser D. Neiman, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meetings. January 8-12, 2002. Mobile, Alabama.
• Following the Yellow Brick Road: The DAACS Munsell Color Range System (PDF:93K)
  By Beatrix Arendt and Jesse Sawyer, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Presented at the Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meetings. January 8-12, 2002. Mobile, Alabama.
• The Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery and Internet Technologies (PDF: 109K)
  By Jillian Galle and Fraser Neiman, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Presented in the symposium What Can Electronic Publication Do for American Archaeology at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings. April 18-22, 2002. New Orleans, Louisiana.

2000:

• The Importance of Data Structuring for Extracting Relevant Information (PDF: 111K)
  By Greg Brown, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.
• Lessons I Have Learned While Developing the Utopia Database (PDF: 88K)
  By Garrett Fesler, James River Institute for Archaeology
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.
• The Data are in the Details: Thoughts on the Utility of the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake Slavery (PDF: 125K)
  By Barbara J. Heath, Poplar Forest
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.
• Trends in the Study of Early American Slavery of Potential Interest to Archaeologists (PDF: 85K)
  By Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.
• Working Across Disciplines: Understanding Slave Life and Culture (PDF: 74K)
  By Dianne Swann-Wright, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.
• Issues and Questions in African-American History (PDF: 108K)
  By Lorena Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  Presented at the Digital Archaeological Archive of Chesapeake’s Slavery Steering Committee Workshop. The International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, Virginia. October 6, 2000.