Every October, Jamestown Rediscovery celebrates Virginia Archaeology Month alongside the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and historic sites across the Commonwealth. Join us this year to explore how archaeology changed the story of Jamestown, watch ongoing excavations at the site of a 17th-century cellar, and see artifacts brought to life through living history demonstrations and […]

An amateur archaeologist known to have studied Native American material culture, Thomas Jefferson would surely be fascinated by the more than 400,000 artifacts found on the Poplar Forest grounds since 1986. Join Poplar Forest’s archaeologists for a walking tour focused on the latest archaeological dig sites and discoveries on the plantation, including a rare up-close […]

An amateur archaeologist known to have studied Native American material culture, Thomas Jefferson would surely be fascinated by the more than 400,000 artifacts found on the Poplar Forest grounds since 1986. Join Poplar Forest’s archaeologists for a walking tour focused on the latest archaeological dig sites and discoveries on the plantation, including a rare up-close […]

Lecture by Matthew Reeves (Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration, Montpelier), co-sponsored by the Richmond Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the University of Richmond Department of Classical Studies. Celebration of Virginia Archaeology Month and International Archaeology Day.

We will have our final Homeschool Dig Day in 2025 at Fairfield Archaeology Park! This will occur during one of our Fairfield Fridays and during Virginia’s Archaeology Month! We will conduct our regular archaeological activities and demonstrate the applications of drones in archaeology.

October is Virginia Archaeology Month, and October 18th is International Archaeology Day (IAD)! We’re celebrating by having a public dig next to the Timberneck House in Machicomoco State Park. The excavation will be by the kitchen that was added to the house in the 20th century. Machicomoco State Park will join us between 10am-11am.  To […]