Archaeothoughts

20/07/2022

Montpelier responds to right wing media misinformation.

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24/06/2022

I think a lot about the visual representation of archaeology, particularly through digital technology and the internet. In 2016 I published an Open Access article in Internet Archaeology that discu…

19/04/2022

The firing of groundbreaking researchers will permanently scare this site. Wiping away decades of good will because the board is afraid of equity with the descendent community.

Breaking News: After making repeated public statements that The Montpelier Foundation would not retaliate against staff for opposing the Board’s abandonment of its commitment to structural parity with the Montpelier descendants, CEO Roy Young has reneged. Thus far today Young has terminated via email Elizabeth Chew, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Chief Curator, Matthew Reeves, Ph.D., Director of Archaeology and Landscaping Restoration, and Christy Moriarty, Director of Communications. He fired Alex Walsh, Events Manager, last week. Young today also suspended Christopher Pasch, Archaeology Field Director, and Mary Furlong Minkoff, Ph.D., Director of Archaeology and Curator of Archaeological Collections.

Dr. Reeves remarked: “I have devoted my archaeological career to understanding the lives of the enslaved men, women, and children who lived at Montpelier in partnership with the Montpelier Descendants Committee. To be retaliated against by the Montpelier leadership for doing my job is a bitter irony.”

Read the press release here:
http://www.culturalheritagepartners.com/embattled-montpelier-ceo-begins-purge/

17/04/2022

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we got him."

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01/04/2022

For over two decades, James Madison’s Montpelier has been recognized as a leader among historic sites for its collaborative work between descendant communities, staff, board members, and scholars. At the

06/11/2021

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05/08/2021

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29/04/2021

Remains of those killed in 1985 Move bombing in Philadelphia serve as ‘case study’ in Princeton-backed course

29/04/2021

This is a must read statement for all anthropologists and archaeologists.

Our collective statement with the Association of Black Anthropologists (ABA) & the Black in Bioanthropology Collective (BiBA) Concerning the Possession and Unethical Use of the Remains of the Children of MOVE and the Africa Family

http://aba.americananthro.org/?fbclid=IwAR30it6yT4dfyV4uI2AuMQHPlChNdFm3-2RbitmoojYEXkTLjEGeKvuMpKo

10/03/2021

A concise accounting of the role that the College of William & Mary with slavery from it's founding to the civil war. Then it's implicit and explicit anti-Blackness up to today. Written by Chardé Reid.

OpinionsGuest columns The WORD on Reparations Part 4: Community By Chardé Reid - March 8, 2021 0 Courtesy of Student Assembly Community. As an anthropology doctoral student who studies African diaspora history and culture, I am amazed by how humans find ways to build community — even in the most ...