Conference and Published Papers
Sources relating to this project
Books
Heath, Barbara J. and Jack Gary, editors. [June 2012]. Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Chapters in edited volumes
Heath, Barbara J. 2004. Engendering Choice: Slavery and Consumerism in Central Virginia. In Engendering African American Archaeology, edited by Amy Young and Jillian Galle, pp. 19-38. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
Heath, Barbara J. 2010. Space and Place within Plantation Quarters in Virginia, 1700-1825. In Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture and Landscapes of North American Slavery, edited by Clifton Ellis and Rebecca Ginsburg, pp. 156-176. Yale University Press.
Heath, Barbara J. [June 2012]. Slave Housing, Household Formation and Community Dynamics at Poplar Forest, 1760s-1810s. In Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary, pp. 151-164. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Heath, Barbara J. and Jack Gary [June 2012]. "Two Tracts of Land at the Poplar Forest": An Historical and Archaeological Overview of Thomas Jefferson's Central Virginia Plantation and Villa Retreat. In Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation, edited by Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary, pp. 15-34. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Thesis
Crystal Ptacek. 2013. “A GIS Analysis of the Dynamics of Power: An Example from 18th-century Piedmont Virginia.” M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Henderson, Samantha. 2013. “Understanding Slave Subsistence in the Context of Changing Agricultural Practices: Paleoethnobotany at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest.” M.A. thesis, Historical Archaeology Program, University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Journal and Newsletter Articles
Heath, Barbara J. 2008. Introduction. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 63(3):109-114.
Heath, Barbara J. 2008. Rediscovering Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest. Quarterly Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Virginia 63(3):124-136.
Heath, Barbara J. and Eleanor Breen 2012. Assessing Variability among Quartering Sites in Virginia. Northeast Historical Archaeology 38:1-28 (2009).
Conference Papers
Heath, Barbara J. 2001. Bounded Yards and Fluid Borders: Landscapes of Slavery at Poplar Forest. In Places of Cultural Memory, African Reflections on the American Landscape Conference Proceedings, pp.69-81. US Department of the Interior, National Park Service. http://www.cr.nps.gov/crdi/conferences/AFR_69-82_Heath.pdf
Heath, Barbara J. 2006 Exploring African American Kinship Ties in Central Virginia. Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference, Virginia Beach, Virginia. March 23-26.
Heath, Barbara J. 2008. Archaeology at Wolf Branch Farm: The search for Wingo's Quarter. Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology, St. Mary's City, Maryland, October 24.
Heath, Barbara J. 2010. Slave Housing, Household Formation, and Community Dynamics at Poplar Forest, 1760s-1820s. 40th Annual Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Ocean City, Maryland, March 18-21.
Ptacek, Crystal. 2011. Reconstructing Mr. Eppes' Neighborhood: A GIS Analysis of the Dynamics of Power. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Archeological Society of Virginia, Stanton, Virginia. October 13-16.
Heath, Barbara J. and Lori A. Lee. 2012. Engaging the Piedmont: Examining Regional Variability among Eighteenth-Century Quartering Sites in Virginia. 45th Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Baltimore, Maryland, January 4-8.
Freeman, Mark. 2012. Land and Community - An Interactive Educational Module. 42th Annual Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference. Virginia Beach, VA
Ptacek, Crystal. 2012. Reconstructing Mr. Eppes’ Neighborhood: A GIS Analysis of the Dynamics of Power
MAACs 2012, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Reports
Heath, Barbara J., Eleanor E. Breen, Crystal Ptacek and Andrew Wilkins (2015). Archaeological Excavations
at Wingo's Quarter (44BE0298) Forest, Virginia. Results from the 2000-2012 Seasons. University of Tennessee Archaeological Reports. (Link to PDF - large file 19mb)
Brock, Daniel W. H., Stephen J. Yerka and Gerald F. Schroedl. 2010. Geophysical Prospection of the Wingo's Slave Quarter Site, Bedford County, Virginia. Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (also Appendix 3 in Heath, Breen Ptacek, Wilkins).
Hatch, D. Brad., 2011. A Report on the Faunal Remains from Wingo's Quarter, Bedford County, Virginia. Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (also Appendix 2 in Heath, Breen, Ptacek, Wilkins).
Raymer, Leslie A. 2003. Archaeobotanical Analysis from Data Recovery Excavations at the North Hill and Quarter Sites, Jefferson's Poplar Forest: A Study of Enslaved African-American Subsistence Patterns. New South Associates Technical Report #781. Stone Mountain, Georgia.
Trigg, Heather and Henderson, Samantha. 2012. Report on the Paleoethnobotanical Materials from Wingo's Site (44BE0298). Andrew Fiske Center for Archaeological Research University of Massachusetts Boston.
Wilkins, Andrew. 2011. Soil Chemistry Analysis of Wingo's Quarter Site, Bedford County, Virginia. Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (also Appendix 5 in Heath, Breen, Ptacek, Wilkins).
Site data are available on the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Faunal data and Botanical data (for educational modules)
Associated metadata
See also: Barbara Heath Excavates at Thomas Jefferson Plantations (YouTube video)
